Tag: Malta Police
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John Rizzo’s regrets and the things he did not say (part 2)
Yesterday, I wrote about John Rizzo and his interview with Jon Mallia. Apart from his untold regrets, which I will write below, Rizzo unwittingly revealed some important facts which help explain how impunity for corruption grew under his leadership of the police force. First, Rizzo reveals the interesting fact that he discovered about the corrupt…
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Everyone needs to eat
First as tragedy then as farce. In a country with a rule of law, Ian Abdilla, the former police money laundering investigator would have been investigated and prosecuted for covering-up corruption and dereliction of public duty. Instead, Abdilla got a pass from Angelo Gafa, and is now, living a normal life as a tourist guide…
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The good salesman
Angeo Gafa has one excellent skill which has exceeded him greatly: he is surely a good salesman who can sell himself as a straight talker who knows what he is doing. Everything that is being revealed about him recently, however, shows that this man is totally unfit for his position. Let’s take a step back…
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A very dangerous game
Just a couple of weeks after NGO Repubblika announced it will be instituting a court challenge against the police for their failure to prosecute Pilatus Bank officials, the police have announced that they are “at the stage” of issuing international arrest warrants against Pilatus Bank officials. As a historian, I have learnt that coincidences are…
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Celebrating two years of successes with Police Commissioner Angelo Gafa
Following Angelo Gafa’s visit to a VIP stand at an Italian football match, I have listed some successes by the new Police Commissioner, Angelo Gafa under his tenure during the last two years. Incredible performance, what do you think? No cases were brought forward on political corruption Angelo Gafa has successfully failed to bring to…
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What is Gafa celebrating, exactly?
Recently, Manuel Delia uploaded a photo of police commissioner Angelo Gafa watching a football game at the VIP stand with the top brass of the Italian team, Inter. I’ve sent Gafa some questions about his trip which he did not reply to. Gafa may be another typical government bureaucrat who thinks that as long as…
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Apology not accepted. Resign, now.
This is an ex-police officer and director of the Academy of the Disciplined Forces, John Charles Ellul saying: Is It possible that there are no eggs and tomatoes left to lynch the Nationalists as they leave Parliament? Truly a case of where are the Labourites. As a director, he is responsible for the academy which…
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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…
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No excuses now
When Robert Abela inherited Joseph Muscat’s poisoned chalice in 2020, Robert spread the narrative that he did not have the mandate to take strong decisions. He simply positioned himself as someone who was responsible to manage the pandemic crisis, although the reality is he didn’t manage anything, but this is another story. Now, Robert Abela…
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The curious case of the police inspector who got passed over
Mary Muscat is a police inspector and an academic who applied to become police commissioner after the corrupt police commissioner Lawrence Cutajar resigned. She was passed over for Angelo Gafa, the preferred Labour police candidate who was previously appointed CEO of the police corps by the Joseph Muscat administration. Muscat made headlines recently when she penned…
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Burger flippers pick up a fight with women
It’s always a very good PR exercise to pick up a fight with women. It’s even better if you are a police force accused by many women of not taking domestic violence and harassment seriously and then chose to pick up a fight with them by insisting in a press conference that a murderer who…