In a newly uncovered leak of internal corporate documents, more than $1.5 million in taxpayer-funded government payments have been revealed to have flowed to F.A.S.T. Construction and Road Development Limited between 2021 and 2025. The company has documented ties to the family of Prime Minister Oscar Mira: its senior project manager is listed as Keith Mira, Oscar Mira’s biological brother.
The 114 leaked invoices, obtained and independently verified by local media outlet News Five, follow a payment pattern identical to that previously observed in leaked documents linked to other companies owned or operated by members of the Mira family, according to the outlet’s analysis. A striking detail of the disclosures is the deliberate structuring of most payments to fall below a $10,000 threshold that triggers automatic formal oversight from the national Treasury: just 10 of the 114 reviewed invoices exceed that amount, while the remaining 104 all clock in at under $10,000.
Crucially, the leaked documents are not a complete record of all government payments made to the construction firm, meaning the total value of contracts awarded could be significantly higher than the $1.5 million already exposed.
One of the most notable transactions uncovered comes from late 2021, when the Prime Minister’s Office issued a payment of nearly $29,000 to F.A.S.T. Construction. The corresponding invoice included no details describing what construction or development work the payment was intended to cover. Just three days after that first undisclosed payout, a second payment of $19,687 was processed under invoice reference PMBZ-CDF, again with no public breakdown of services rendered.
While the vast majority of the leaked payments originated from the Ministry of Defence (MOD), a smaller share of payouts were issued by two other government departments: the Ministry of Infrastructure Development and Housing (MIDH) and the Ministry of Economic Transformation (MET). All payments issued by these two departments exceeded the $10,000 oversight threshold, requiring formal sign-off from Treasury officials before being processed.
The largest single batch of payments recorded in the leak came in March 2021, immediately after the ruling People’s United Party (PUP) secured a landslide victory in national municipal elections. Eighteen separate invoices were submitted to the government that month, 16 of which were fully processed and paid on March 4—just one day after the election results were finalized. All 16 of those post-election payments, issued by the MOD, combined to total nearly $147,000. The remaining two payments from that March 2021 batch, processed on March 2 and March 12 respectively, each exceeded $20,000.
A second large cluster of structured payments was documented in February 2023, when 17 separate invoices all dated February 7 were submitted for payment. Each individual invoice fell just below the $10,000 Treasury oversight threshold, and the 17 invoices combined to total more than $157,000 in public funds paid to the firm.
News Five has confirmed it will continue its investigative reporting into the payments and any potential conflicts of interest or improper contracting practices, with further updates expected as more information becomes available.