While the Prime Minister threw Mira a political lifeline by endorsing his political viability, that narrative is colliding with the steady stream of leaks which show the depth of the Mira family's lucrative relationship with the state.
Tonight, we look at a new set of screenshots, those covering another Mira brother, Stanley. Jules Vasquez reports.
Stanley Mira, Oscar Mira's younger brother, was a vendor for the Ministry of Defence between July 2022 and August 2024, according to leaked Smart Stream screenshots.
The screenshots show 59 transactions totaling just under half a million dollars in 25 months.
With the exception of one $200 transaction in 2012, the 41 year old Stanley exclusively supplied his brother's Ministry of Defence. Those 5 dozen transactions totaled $435,125.57.
And, following the pattern of his other family businesses - in these 5 dozen payouts there was no payment record above $10,000.
According to the CEO for Defence, Stanley also owns MP Farms, a high-volume Ministry of Defence supplier.
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Francis Usher, CEO - Ministry of Defence and Border Security
"I looked for who it was registered under I believe is Stanley Mira."
For example, in 2023 - MP Farms invoiced the Ministry of Defence for over three-quarters of a million dollars, while the vendor Stanley Mira earned another $117,000.
And we also detected anomalies with his payments: we saw two invoice numbers paid out twice for two different amounts. And in another case, an invoice was canceled and then the same invoice number was brought back with a ghost period added for another figure.
We note that while those are all the entries we received via leaks, they only comprise 60 of the 132 invoices for Stanley Mira on the Smart Stream platform.
The Ministry of Defence CEO could not confirm what goods or service Stanley Mira provided because the audit of his Ministry's records has started.
