The Egrant inquiry magistrate was told that a UK forensic accountancy firm that analysed Pilatus Bank’s servers was set up in May after an “administrative change”, the Attorney General confirmed.
Harbinson Forensics was formed two months before Magistrate Aaron Bugeja completed the 15-month-long inquiry into allegations that the Panama company was owned by the Prime Minister’s wife.
Attorney General Peter Grech told this newspaper that between June 2017 and last month, forensic accounting in relation to the inquiry was carried out by Harbinson Mulholland accountants. However, they branched into the separate company Harbinson Forensics last month.
“It was agreed that from mid-June 2018, the project delivery, administration and billing of this and other assignments should be transferred to a new limited company owned by the same Jeremy Harbinson called Harbinson Forensics Ltd.
“The service provision and all personnel involved in providing the service remain unchanged. It is simply that, after mid-June, reporting and billing transferred to Harbinson Forensics Ltd,” Dr Grech said in reply to questions from the Times of Malta.
He noted that Harbinson Mulholland requested the…
