Tag: Mafia
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Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni goes to Palermo to beef up security: Giovanni Falcone’s car lent to Fondazione Falcone
The Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has travelled to Palermo, Sicily and convened a Provincial Committee for Public Order and Security involvign both the police and armed forces to coordinate the increase in security in Palermo following repeated attacks by organised crime on businesses in the city. Sicily has recently been gripped by several attacks…
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Collusion with the Mafia at the highest levels of government
Joseph Muscat’s minions are coming out in force to defend him over his communication and association with Yorgen Fenech in 2019 during the investigation of Fenech over the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia. The extensive association and collaboration between Yorgen Fenech and Keith Schembri has already been documented and Keith Schembri’s sharing of confidential police…
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David Abela’s murder was also a message by the Mafia
It is important to provide some relevant context for the murder of David Abela, which was also an explicit message from the Mafia. David Abela was not murdered simply to dispose of him. He was killed to send a message. He was found with his testicles stuffed in his mouth — a sign often used…
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The Mafia is back
With Labour’s latest win at the polls, the Maltese Mafia has been further empowered. Keith Schembri, has had his assets unfreezed despite ongoing Court cases of money-laundering such as the public hospitals case and the PRogress Press case. He is also yet to be charged on multiple cases of corruption including the Electrogas project. Keith…
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Italy busts Mafia ring with Maltese suspect: Maltese Police bust big cocaine shipment
It was a busy week for both the Maltese Police and the police in Sicily, who conducted two large and separate operations this week. The Maltese Police, together with Customs officials, seized a shipment of up to 113kg of cocaine that was headed to Libya. The drugs were discovered in a container at the Malta…
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Exclusive: Alan Muscat (Galletta) with his runners and mob
We have previously mistaken the visual identity of Alan Muscat (Galletta) with his brother Adrian Muscat. The mistake originated from another press outlet but we have now confirmation and also photos of the actual Alan Muscat. The photos published previously exhibit Adrian Muscat. Alan Muscat uses his brother (Adrian) as a proxy for his companies…
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We’ve seen this show already
39 years ago, on the 10th February 1986, the Maxiprocesso kicked off in Palermo Sicily with 475 members of the Mafia brought to trial with an indictment that was 8,000 pages long. 338 were convicted with 19 top Mafia bosses condemned to life in prison. Two of the Magistrates leading the trial were Paolo Borsellino…
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Sorry seems to be the hardest word
One of the reasons why Rosianne Cutajar won’t apologise is that she knows very well that I would be using her apology against her in a criminal case I would file through my lawyer Joseph Mizzi. The result of her decision is that she won’t be accepted back in the Labour Party parliamentary group, and…
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38 Years Ago: First Court Sitting of Maxiprocesso in Palermo
The first court sitting of the series of trials in Italy, held in a court in Palermo (Sicily) that went on to defeat and dissolve Cosa Nostra, the largest Sicilian mafia group at that time, began 38 years ago on the 10th of February 1986. Photo shows Luciano Liggio, a mafia boss in prison, who…
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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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Don’t fall for Yorgen Fenech’s disinformation campaign
TVM News has made an error in its reporting that it has been cleared up, but the article’s link still carries the old and incorrect title. The police never said that in court. What’s going on? Currently, Yorgen Fenech is conducting a very intensive disinformation campaign as his jury trial is set to start soon.…
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Angelo Gafa’s idea of fighting the mafia: check their work permits
The Police have just released a statement saying that some bouncers in Paceville have been arrested for working without a permit. They have also issued a set of photos of young police recruits with caps making the arrests. It’s with these stories that I can’t seem to be able to make a quick choice between…
