Mario Camilleri even tried to cheat and railroad his fellow shareholders

Mario George Camilleri tried to screw his business partners, the Curmis, by offering to buy out their 50% shareholding in the company for Eur150,000 before telling them he had cut a deal with Muscat.

He negotiated that deal with Muscat behind their backs. This emerges from the National Audit Office report (P64 and 65).

If that ruse had worked, he’d have picked up a good deal more than his Eur210,000 commission.

When the Curmis found out what he’d been doing, and saw that he had even arrange a 5% commission for himself as part of the deal for selling their debt-ridden operation to the government, they refused to sign.

Camilleri then coerced them into signing by saying they would each be liable to a Eur2 million debt if the deal didn’t go through.

The NAO report includes a faithful transcript of Camilleri’s response to their question about this. It is so faithful that I can actually hear this creep’s voice and way of talking, both so typical of his Maltese-jerk kind.

NAO Q: Did I understand you well when you said that when your partner saw the draft agreement at first he did not want to sign because of these €210,000?

Mario Camilleri: He made a big fuss about it. He made a big fuss. I said look I mean I believe I’ve got a deal done over here, this is how it’s gonna be done, this is how the figures are gonna be split and you’re gonna come and sign. If you don’t come and sign we’re both liable for €2 million each. He said no, no, we’ll pay it later, I said no. He said but it’s been coming to you. I said it doesn’t matter.