Italians fail to pay Maltese subcontractors

A number of Maltese companies sub-contracted by an Italian company entrusted to carry out works by a consortium of Maltese companies known as BIB have issued garnishee orders against Filiberti Design Stone srl. They have also taken judicial procedures against the Maltese consortium BIB calling on it not to issue payments to Filiberti Design Stone srl.

The Maltese sub contractors have pointed out that the Maltese consortium BIB has been paid by the Maltese treasury regularly, but that the Italians have failed to pay the subcontractors. 

Garnishee orders dated 20 September of this year have been issued against Filiberti srl, but the Maltese sub contractors are still owed thousands of euros.

Some contractors have stopped providing works, but others continue to provide their services in the hope that the matter will be resolved.

MaltaToday has also discovered that the estimates carried for finalising parliament are well below the real costs. A case in point for the untimely costs is the finalisation of the very expensive Maltese hard stone, which is cut and then polished in Parma, Italy and affixed to the façade of the parliament. Filiberti had originally calculated that only 25% of the stone slabs would be damaged. It turned out that up to 60% of the stone slabs broke or were damaged in the process.