The Kamra tal-Periti has finally cleared AP Valletta of every allegation raised by The Shift’s reporting on the Bartolott Crypt at St. John’s Co-Cathedral.

On 18th January 2025, The Shift News reported that a newly installed floor in the Bartolott Crypt at St. John's Co-Cathedral had “caved in”, causing severe damage to the resting place of roughly 600 Knights of the Order of St. John. The claim, sourced to a single unnamed employee, was picked up widely and named AP Valletta as the architects responsible.

That article prompted the Kamra tal-Periti, Malta's professional body for architects and civil engineers, to open a formal investigation. What followed was eight conduct hearings between April 2025 and June 2026, sworn testimony from five witnesses, and a review of documentation stretching back a decade. On 16 September 2026, the Council issued its decision:

“The Council found AP Valletta not to have breached any provision of the Periti Act - no negligence, no misconduct, no discreditable conduct, no failure to meet professional standards”.

None of this would have been possible without the trust of our client, the St. John's Co-Cathedral Foundation, who cooperated fully with the KTP Council throughout and who have placed their confidence in AP across more than a decade of work on the Museum project. We're grateful too to the Superintendence of Cultural Heritage and to the project's independent archaeological monitor, whose careful, continuous oversight of every stage of these works forms part of the record that has now cleared our name.

The Bartolott Crypt holds the remains of some 600 Knights of the Order of St. John. We have treated it, from the first site visit, with the care that history demands, and we are glad that the record now reflects that.

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