Tag: Pilatus Bank
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I love this
Robert Aquilina, author of the book on the Pilatus Bank scandal, is on a book signing tour across the Islands and he’s having quite a decent turnout considering such events are very rare. Authors in Malta rarely if ever hold book signing sessions. I love it. And it’s even better when considering that writing and…
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Slowly and gradually, they will turn against him
As Robert Abela turns against his Police Commissioner for making him look like a fool, eventually Labour Party insiders will also turn against Robert Abela for bringing the party to the ground. The root of the problem is Joseph Muscat’s kompromat with Robert Abela and this is also the cause which put Robert Abela in…
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Consistent malignant incompetence is evidence of willful cover-up
Labour’s persistence in selling its false narrative is a bet on people’s exhaustion over corruption and the history of its mafia. Robert Abela thinks that by time, if he keeps harping about having made “huge” and “historic” legal reforms on rule of law, people will forget the widespread corrupt deals that Joseph Muscat and his…
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Seems like the Attorney-General and the Maltese Police don’t want to arrest Ali Sadr Hasheminejad of Pilatus Bank
Last year, on February 24th, a Maltese magistrate signed an arrest warrant against Ali Sadr Hasheminejad, the owner of Pilatus Bank. Despite the arrest warrant, the police have so far refused to arrest him. Someone from the attorney general’s office has also admitted that they had withheld their criminal proceedings until they “study” a notice…
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The looming shadow of Pawlu Lia
Magistrate Nadine Lia, the daughter-in-law of Pawlu Lia is presiding over a case in court brought up by NGO Republika that is challenging the police’s inaction over Pilatus Bank and its owners. Magistrate Lia has just issued a court decree asking the police to explain how the magisterial inquiry was leaked to the NGO. Nadine…
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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…
