Tag: Libyan contraband oil
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The organised criminals that rose from John Rizzo’s ashes of war
After waging a total war on drugs and consequently subduing Malta’s organised criminals into submission, the history of organised crime in Malta took an unexpected turn that changed the criminal landscape and laid the foundations for the soon-to-be-minted organised criminals and groups that would dominate Malta’s newly set-up illegal markets: this was the Libyan civil…
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Malta’s impunity for dirty oil traders
The biggest story in my latest book “A Rent-Seeker’s Paradise” was how dirty oil trader Darren Debono became the biggest trader of contraband Libyan oil after the previous players in this illegal industry, were pushed out of the business by a coordinated police operation. Darren Debono was abetted and supported by Keith Schembri, Konrad Mizzi…