Tag: Alexiei Dingli
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Valletta’s Local Council Finances: Missing documents, potential bankruptcy and contradicting statements – Auditor General
In local politics there was always this rumour going around that the finances of the Valletta Local Council under Mayor Alexiei Dingli were in shambles. The Labour Party seems to have never picked up on this story and the stories were never picked up by the press. However, these were not rumours and neither stories,…
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Ongoing rift between Alexiei Dingli and the Nationalist Party
Sources within the Nationalist Party have informed us earlier today that there is ongoing rift between Alexiei Dingli and the Nationalist Party. Different and multiple sources have confirmed with us that the Nationalist Party is reluctant to accept Alexiei Dingli’s nomination as a general election candidate with PN and a dispute is ongoing between Alexiei…
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On the scandal about Waste Collection Ltd, Alexiei Dingli is silent
In 2012, the Valletta Local Council headed by Mayor Alexiei Dingli awarded up to €1.3 million in public contracts to a notorious drug trafficker called Alan (or Allan) Muscat through his company Waste Collection Ltd. Like many drug traffickers, Alan Muscat laundered his money through legitimate companies in the cleaning and the catering businesses apart…
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€1.3 million from Valletta Local Council in 2012: Alan Muscat Galletta
Alan Muscat (Galletta), currently a subject of our investigations on Malta not Mafia State, joined the rent-seeking business in politics even before the Labour Party entered office in 2013. Alan Muscat’s contacts with the Valletta Local Council go back as far as 2012 when he was awarded a tender of €270,000 for the cleaning of…
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AI Man is back: he will solve building collapse crisis with AI
After failing to solve Malta’s traffic problems with AI, Alexiei Dingli now wants to solve Malta’s building collapse crisis with AI. AI, which is another term for automated software, will remain one of the biggest grifts in the years to come with many AI advocates promising to save the world for a quick profit. The…
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Deals being struck on Shark Tank by Mark Bajada are not actually being signed
Shark Tank Malta is being used as a spectacle for a couple of local business people to showcase their bravado more than as a real show for startups pitching contests. At least this is the story of Mark Bajada who has asked for government support for an investment he pledged but didn’t make. I’ve also…
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Labour’s latest policy update: subsidies for the poor and stopping Jason Azzopardi
Yesterday, Prime Minister and Labour Party Leader Robert Abela rallied his party members to celebrate his five years in office. He gave an hour-long speech that supposedly marked his vision and the Labour Party’s policy, but all I could decipher from it is that the Labour Party is in favour of subsidies for the poor…
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Mark Bajada hasn’t actually invested €1.5 million into Digital Traffic Brain
Many deals that are aired on Shark Tank don’t actually go through or are re-negotiated following the presentation of the actual paperwork. I was very skeptical about the claims being made in the media that Mark Bajada is stupid enough to throw €1.5 million into developing a traffic application for use in Malta, and in…
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The Nationalist Party embraces the era of AI grift and fraud
In his speech at the start of the new year, Opposition Leader Bernard Grech said he wanted to modernise the country and mentioned Artificial Intelligence, “AI”, because of course he would. It is the latest buzzword which sounds important and life-changing, so everyone wants AI including the Nationalist Party. They don’t have a policy about…
