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Joseph Muscat shows support for the money-laundering reforms proposed by the Labour government

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Mark Camilleri
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Joseph Muscat wants to pretend that he doesn’t know what the Magisterial inquiry will conclude about him: well he knows that’s why he has recently been having some (literally) sleepless nights as he fought through the stress. Joseph Muscat has plenty of friends and connections at the Office of the Attorney General and his Labour Party sources keep him well updated with everything that goes on. Muscat is not short of information and intelligence.

He is, however, in deep need of some tranquility as his lies keep taking a toll on him. Joseph Muscat insisted that the proposed money-laundering reforms are needed because the courts have condemned them: a convenient lie that was stated by Justice Minister Jonathan Attard. Anti-money laundering rules and regulations were only tightened further under Joseph Muscat’s administration (while enforcement was weakened), and at no point in time was Joseph Muscat’s government challenged by a court or an institution about Malta’s freezing orders of its AML legislation. In addition, what the courts have condemned was the unnecessary delays in addressing a case.

Joseph Muscat will come up with any excuse to support the Labour government’s reforms because he genuinely needs them.

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2 responses to “Joseph Muscat shows support for the money-laundering reforms proposed by the Labour government”

  1. Antonio Ghisleri avatar
    Antonio Ghisleri

    History has a nasty habit of repeating itself with monotonous regularity.
    Before the 1987 general elections, a Presidential Pardon was announced which was to be applicable (in terms of reduction of gaol time) not only to those who were actually in prison but also to those who up to the time of the promulgation of the amnesty had committed a criminal offence even if they had not yet been arraigned in court!
    And in the aftermath of the arraignment of Pietru Pawl Busuttil on trumped up charges, after that the two magistrates (Gino Camilleri and Goeffrey Valenzia) had concluded in their “in genere” inquiry that any charges against Busuttil were unfounded, a clause was quickly added to a Bill pending before Parliament to give the power to the Commissioner of Police to challenge the admissibility of the “proces-verbal” relating to an “in genere” inquiry. The then Commissioner of Police, Lawrence Pullicino, naturally availed himself of this provision to try and annul the judicial finding of the two magistrates, but by the time the Court of Criminal Appeal came to hear the application, Busuttil had been discharged by the Court of Magistrates as a Court of Criminal Inquiry (Magistrate David Scicluna), and the incoming new administration eventually expunged that provision from the Criminal Code.
    So why should anyone be surprised about the new “reforms” on the freezing of assets in money-laundering cases?

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  2. The Judiciary vs the Legislator on Malta’s Anti-Money Laundering Law – Mark Camilleri avatar
    The Judiciary vs the Legislator on Malta’s Anti-Money Laundering Law – Mark Camilleri

    […] The law has been specifically designed and implemented to cover-up and abet political criminals and lawyers who have a history of laundering criminal proceeds. The government has promoted this law as something that will protect small businesses, against the over zealousness of the authorities, but this is misleading. The law will help organised criminals like Yorgen Fenech and soon to be arraigned Joseph Muscat. […]

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