Tag: assets freeze
-
What does the €30 million in frozen funds mean with regard to Joseph Muscat
The court citation accusing Joseph Muscat of money laundering, also lists €30 million as the total amount of assets that should be seized and frozen from him. Others have had the same figure applied to them. Readers have asked me to explain this figure and to do so I have first asked the advice of…
-
What does the €30 million in frozen funds mean with regard to Joseph Muscat
The court citation accusing Joseph Muscat of money laundering, also lists €30 million as the total amount of assets that should be seized and frozen from him. Others have had the same figure applied to them. Readers have asked me to explain this figure and to do so I have first asked the advice of…
-
An Opposition that is in cahoots with the government
Since the end of last year, I have been trying to contact the Nationalist Party’s spokesperson for Home Affairs, the infamous criminal lawyer, Joe Giglio. He has so far, been avoiding me, and I rather have a verbal reply rather than an evasive and dry written reply. Joe Giglio, who is a criminal lawyer who…
-
Protecting money-launderers under the direct guidance of the Prime Minister himself
The law restricting the power of the authorities to freeze the assets of suspected money launderers has been prompted by the Prime Minister himself and has been drawn up by the Ministry of Justice without the advice of the Attorney General and the Ministry of Finances. It’s exclusively the affair of Robert Abela which is…
-
A note on assets freeze and the proportionality of enforcement
I have received an email from an individual who wrote me the story of one of her relatives whose life was ruined by a court case and a freeze on all of their assets. The individual argues that their relative is innocent and their life was ruined unnecessarily and for no valid reason at all.…
-
PN is still discussing its position over the Labour’s asset freeze reform
PN’s parliamentary group is divided over Labour’s proposed asset freeze reform, and the party is still formulating its official position as it addresses the internal disagreements between its MPs. This may very well be one of the moments where criminal lawyers in PN may be compromising the party’s values for their business interests. PN should…
