Tag: Rent Seeker’s Paradise
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A Perfect Rent-Seeker’s Paradise
Various top-profile Labour Party figures leaving their posts in Robert Abela’s current changing of the guard, are leaving with bags full and a wrecked political legacy behind them. This can’t be a more ideal arrangement for Labour Party figures who fail in their public mission: they get to leave their posts richer and without paying…
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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…
