Peter Borg, Malta Enterprise deputy chairperson, resigned hours after the public inquiry into the 2022 construction site collapse was made public, Times of Malta reports.

Two other Malta Enterprise board members, lobbyist Paul Abela and unionist Victor Carachi, are also expected to resign. Both Abela and Carachi declined to comment when contacted. 

The resignation comes after Occupational Health and Safety Authority chairperson David Xuereb also confirmed he will quit.

Borg chaired Malta Enterprise's investment committee and also served as the state entity's deputy chairperson. Abela and Carachi also form part of that committee and sit on Malta Enterprise's board. 

All were part of the committee when it approved a proposal by All Plus Ltd to build a furniture factory on government land in Corradino in May 2019.

Carachi later told the newspaper that he had resigned despite insisting he was not present when the decision to approve the Corradino factory was made.

Carachi said the decision to approve a proposal by All Plus Ltd to build a furniture factory on government land in Corradino was taken during a meeting for which he happened to arrive late.

By the time he arrived, Carachi says, the proposal had already been discussed and approved.

He said in a statement that he was disappoined that no member of the Investment Committee was called to testify during the inquiry and said that his resignation was also a "heartfelt gesture of my deep respect and sympathy for the family of Jean Paul Sofia."

The investment committee is responsible for approving decisions for funding and allocations to industries in projects involving up to 1,000 square metres of land.

The committee was singled out for its amateurish and superficial way it assessed the Kordin project.

The public inquiry board led by Justice Joseph Zammit McKeon concluded that the committee did a poor job of scrutinising the proposal and lacked transparency in its decision-making process. Instead of questioning the proposal, it tackled it in a "superficial" manner.

Malta Enterprise approved the project in May 2019 and INDIS signed over the site to the developers in February 2020. 

Sofia died when a building under construction collapsed on 3 December 2022.