The enterprise, which has been handling all cleaning services on the government’s St Vincent De Paul facility for over three years and paid millions of euros, did now not even exist at the time it changed into being tasked to do the paintings, the Times of Malta has learned.
As Active Ageing Parliamentary Secretary Anthony Agius Decelis continues to avoid questions on the multi-million direct orders, which have been issued repeatedly by the government for the past years, the Times of Malta observed that no gentle has ever been given to X-Clean Ltd, and the choice of the man or woman tasked with the process was made immediately using the then Family Affairs Ministry.
Last week, this newspaper mentioned that X-Clean Ltd, which is responsible for the cleaning services at the government’s Vintage Humans domestic, is being paid over €300,000 a month for its services.
In breach of public procurement policies, the authorities have renewed the purchase of the cleaning offerings at once from X-Clean every few months for the past three years, and no new software has been issued.
Times of Malta is informed that Denis Xuereb, from Naxxar, was tasked with providing cleaning offerings at the facility on April 1, 2015, according to the ability’s CEO, Josianne Cutajar. The decision to select Mr. Xuereb was changed by the Family Affairs Ministry, which used Michael Farrugia without any name for tenders.
It was only an afternoon after, on April 2, 2015, that X-Clean was formally registered using the company registry, with Mr. Xuereb appearing as its sole director.
X-Clean is owned by every other cleaning corporation, Crystal Clean Ltd, which was registered a few months in advance. It is owned by Kristina Xuereb, who is also from Naxxar.
So, a long way to go; the company has never supplied its accounts according to the regulations.
Times of Malta is aware that despite the unique direct order to X-Clean being meant to last for the best six months—the most approved by using the law—so that a proper new tender would be issued and evaluated, the anticipated gentle change in no way published. Mr. Xuereb’s organization is still having his direct order renewed at the moment.
The newspaper is likewise informed that although Mr. Xuereb originally was more than €200,000 a month for the paintings, payments have swelled significantly in the last months, surpassing the €three hundred,000-a-month invoice.
Asinvoiceseatedly to explain why a soft was by no means issued for this multi-million contract, who selected Mr. Xuereb and his organization, on what criteria, and whether or not these services had been procured in keeping with the law, Parliamentary Secretary Agius Decelis, who took over from Dr. Farrugia, is refusing to reply, notwithstanding repeated reminders. Finance Minister Edward Scicluna, who also copied in with the questions, as his ministry is meant to supervise public procurement, declined to comment.
