Tag: Fraud
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Unemployed and holidaying in Dubai
Tammy Caruana, who is currently under arrest over charges of defrauding up to 200 victims of €1 million left an extensive trail of evidence about the use of her stolen proceeds on TikTok. Apparently, she also flew to Dubai with her friends, one of whom has publicly identified herself after sending us a barrage of…
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British Payment processor SumUp being used by fraudsters targeting Maltese individuals
Maltese individuals are currently being targeted fraudsters are using the British/German payment processor SumUp to receive and process stolen proceeds. The payment processor is based and regulated in Europe via Ireland. A banking identifier code is being posted below for the attention of Maltese individuals. Payments requested to this BIC are most probably a scam.…
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Meet Tammy Caruana: the unemployed (alleged) fraudster who stole €1 million
Tammy Caruana is the woman who has been taken to Court on charges of defrauding up to 200 people of €1 million. She is accused of impersonating banks and defrauding people with creative and fake banking and business schemes. She is from Saint Paul’s Bay, unemployed and 25 years old. Her fraudulent racket also extended…
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Police arrest two in major online banking fraud probe linked to international network
An extensive investigation into online fraud by the Malta Police Financial Crime Investigations Department has led to the arrest of a 25-year-old woman and an 82-year-old man, following coordinated operations carried out on 2nd February 2026. The woman is suspected of being the main local figure in an online fraud scheme in which victims were…
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Martin Farrugia and his partner Lucienne can’t even afford to feed their lions and wild cats
The partner of the contractor Martin Farrugia, currently facing charges of fraud, money-laundering and tax evasion, Lucianne has been busy yesterday writing tirades of insults and threats against activists and journalists over the reporting about her husband’s legal troubles and his plans to sell his lions and wild cats. Lucianne should have instead made sure…
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VuÄ‹i Għall-Annimali demands contractor’s wild animals to be shipped to animal sanctuaries not commercial zoos
Animal rights media outlet VuÄ‹i Għall-Annimali has demanded the authorities to ensure that wild animals of the contractor currently facing fraud charges in court, are shipped to animal sanctuaries and not to commercial zoos. The contractor in question, Martin Farrugia (featured above), owns a building housing big cats and the menagerie was built on what…
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Malta takes part in European wide clampdown on crypto-scam ring
Europol has announced it has closed a wide-ranging European investigation over a criminal network that scammed its victims with crypto-currency and fake trading platforms. As of last October, Europol coordinated raids by the French, Spanish and Belgian police among other jurisdictions arrested the individuals involved in this network and seizing up to €1.5 million in…
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Social Studies Lessons 101
Following the degenerating state of the public broadcaster into a vehicle of disinformation and brain-rot, here are some basic lessons in social studies. I have also increased the font of the descriptions to remain consistent with the settings of children’s literature. I hope this helps. This is an online newspaper: This is a…
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Saved by the Labour government
Aron Mifsud Bonnici has been arraigned in Court over tax evasion over a whopping €1.6 million tax evasion case. He accumulated these undeclared proceeds when he served as a government consultant and lawyer to many corrupt government projects including the energy projects under ex-Minister Konrad Mizzi and the Vitals contract. The case in Court is…
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Francine Farrugia’s fraud could have been avoided if standard public accounting procedures were applied
Details are coming out from the Court case regarding Francine Farrugia’s €2.3 million fraud from MCAST. Previously, we pointed out that Francine Farrugia couldn’t not have executed her fraud if proper auditing and accounting procedures were in place: this means that Francine Farrugia’s fraud was also caused by management disasters. We were in fact right,…
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Incredible efficiency by the FCID as a Nationalist Party Councilor is arraigned to Court over fraud
The Police Financial Crimes Investigations Department have shown incredible efficiency in arraigning Francine Farrugia to Court over fraud and money-laundering, after she embezzled up to €2.4 million from the MCAST accounts department where she worked to purchase properties, luxury items, jewelry and foreign trips. Surely, the motivating factor must have been that she is a…
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Scam-like university refuses to refund fees after student fails to obtain a Visa
A foreigner who tried to get a study-visa to Malta is complaining on Malta’s expat social media group that a self-described university in Malta has refused to refund him the fees that he paid for a course after he was refused a visa. The so called university describes itself as “The International Institute of Malta”…
