Tag: asset freeze
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Here’s someone else who is unecumbered by freezing orders
Another prime example of someone seemingly unencumbered by the current law and enforcement regime on freezing orders is the disgraced ex-Premier Joseph Muscat, who, despite having a freezing order on his assets, is still able to conduct business, maintain a career in football, travel the world, and even take his friends along with him to…
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Police move to freeze bank accounts overnight
Some of the Maltese individuals to be arraigned for money laundering over the Vitals and Steward public deals fraud will wake up this morning to find that their bank accounts have been frozen. The police have already acted on the Attachment Order with the list of suspected individuals and companies being suspected of money laundering.…
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Giving leeway to scoundrels
Attorney General Victoria Buttigieg has yet to pronounce herself against the government’s proposed reforms to restrict her office’s powers to seize and freeze assets of suspected money launderers. The advice of the Attorney General is crucial in the legislation of criminal matters especially when it comes to very technical laws such as those related to…
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Lydia Abela: the money laundering mule
The biggest beneficiaries of the money-laundering reforms, which will prohibit wide-reaching asset freezes on money laundering suspects, and which are being rushed by the government are not only needed to cover up for Joseph Muscat and Christian Borg. They are ultimately needed for Robert and Lydia Abela themselves and this is also why the Labour…
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PN spokesperson for Home Affairs and criminal lawyer Joe Giglio is in favour of Labour’s asset freeze reforms
The Nationalist Party’s parliamentary group held a meeting last Wednesday to discuss Labour’s proposed reforms on asset freezes, which are aimed at helping Joseph Muscat prevent his assets from being frozen. Joe Giglio, PN’s spokesperson for home affairs, is strongly supporting this bill, and his position led to a heated exchange within the group. Joe…