Konrad Mizzi was given a job as a consultant with the Malta Tourism Authority less than two weeks after he resigned from his post as tourism minister, a media report says.

The agreement, dated 9 December, 2019, was never made public by the government, then led by Joseph Muscat.

Mizzi was engaged to serve as consultant in tourism and business development for the authority, Times of Malta reports.

His salary is €6,700 per month, exclusive of VAT (€80,400 annually), plus a fully-expensed executive-level car and driver, which Mizzi may opt to replace by a lump sum of €11,400 annually.

Compensation also includes medical insurance for Mizzi and his family, mobile phone and internet service. 

The agreement comes to an end in December 2022.

Mizzi resigned on 26 November, the same day as Keith Schembri, with whom he had opened companies in Panama which had been revealed in the Panama Papers.

In comments with MaltaToday, Tourism Minister Julia Farrugia Portelli said she only got to know about the existence of this contract “at 5.20pm today” (Monday). “I have asked for legal advice on the validity of this contract,” Farrugia Portelli said.

Meanwhile, Opposition leader Adrian Delia has called on the Prime Minister to terminate Mizzi's contract on Tuesday morning.

"Instead of being kicked out & prosecuted, disgraced former Minister Konrad Mizzi has been rewarded an obscene 80k annually for tarnishing Malta's reputation," Delia said in a Facebook post this evening.