There was deafening silence this week when MaltaToday asked the three senior staff who had resigned from SmartCity Malta in the past few weeks.
When MaltaToday contacted Claudio Grech to ask him why he had tendered his resignation last Monday week, he chose not to comment to this newspaper about the matter.
“As far as I am concerned, I have no further comments to make on SmartCity Malta beyond the public statement I issued on Monday 28 September 2009,” he said curtly.
Grech, who had left his post as Head of Secretariat with Infrastructure and IT Minister Austin Gatt to take up this plum job, might return to the Minister’s secretariat.
However this move might be opposed by Manuel Delia, who has in the meantime taken up Grech’s post.
In any case, Grech remains at the helm of MITA, the Government’s IT agency, to which he was appointed as Chairman.
No response was coming fromAntoine Portelli either; the 35-year-old Gozitan accountant who a few weeks ago resigned as Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
Prior to his appointment, Portelli had worked in construction projects with the Midi consortium which is currently developing Manoel Island and Tigne point.
Martin Attard Montalto, an architect by profession, was Chief Executive Officer at Foundation for Medical Services (FMS) and oversaw the construction and commissioning of Mater Dei Hospital in 2007.
He then joined Smart City Malta as Senior Project Manager, only to leave a few weeks ago following a spate of high-powered resignations.
In September 2008 he was appointed Member of the Network Infrastructure Directorate set up by Infrastructure Minister Austin then headed by Chairman Joe Fenech Conti and has now taken up employment there.
Efforts to contact Attard Montalto this week proved fruitless.
The other major resignation at SCM was that of infrastructure manager Joseph Anastasi, who also left a few weeks ago.
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