Law Commissioner Franco Debono and Asst Police Commissioner Pierre Calleja hosted on yacht by prominent businessman/developer
Yesterday, a reliable source told me that Law Commissioner Franco Debono and Assistant Police Commissioner Pierre Calleja, who is currently leading the investigation into the murder of two cocaine traffickers and a possible third murder associated with the case, were seen a few days ago boarding a yacht owned by a prominent businessman/developer.
My source could only give me the surname of the yacht-owner and the original business name, which has since become a ‘laqam tal-familja’, by which the extended family is identified.
This family includes several siblings who own yachts or boats of some kind, and they do not all get along well together or operate as a unit, so it would be wrong and unfair to identify the family publicly without specifying which of the brothers it was.
I will, however, say that a member of this family had a large house rented out to a drug-dealer in his early 20s, who used to conduct his deals from this house throughout the night, and who has since gone missing – the second disappearance since Matthew Zahra’s and almost certainly the second of the spate of drug-dealing-related murders we have seen since.
I do not in any way mean to suggest that the landlord knew this individual’s business, though he should have been more than able to work it out.
Nor do I know whether the landlord was the particular sibling who hosted the Law Commissioner and the Assistant Police Commissioner on board his boat (he has one).
I do not suggest here that either the Law Commissioner or Assistant Police Commissioner Pierre Calleja, who is investigating the drugland murders, know of this temporary connection between a member of the family (and possibly the man himself) whose invitation they accepted and the young drug-dealer who vanished without trace.
That in itself would be shocking, because it would mean that Asst Commissioner Calleja has not interviewed an important witness during his investigations into the disappearance of this young drug-dealer. And if he did interview this witness and still accepted an invitation from him or one of his siblings to spend a day out on a boat, then we are looking at another set of problems, particularly as Calleja is set to be promoted to Deputy Police Commissioner some time in the next fortnight.
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I used to look forward to TVM news. Now I see no urgent need to keep myself updated by watching TVM and other stations.
I read this blog first.
More rubbish from KZT who has now become a pathetic caricature of himself. Includes the memorable line “I have nothing against queens.”
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130725/opinion/It-s-a-boy-Thank-God-.479399
A naïve poser.
Next thing he’ll be writing about is his breakfast cereals, to avoid the embarrassment that he voted Labour to get a ‘cannolo’.
Anglu Farrugia, disgusted at the rot, was removed. Toni Abela’s actions were scandalous, first used then put aside.
Those were the deputy leaders of a party dismantled, making it vulnerable to this sort of risk, if Muscat thinks this won’t turn on him next, he must be delusional.
I can honestly say I’ve never seen this degree of degeneration ever. Except when people were made to disappear or framed.
This is truly sickening, how long before they’ll turn on us? I don’t see Muscat stopping it, not if it disrupts his high society fetish.
This country needs an opposition, now. There’s a pattern emerging in ex-socialist republics, the Czech republic, Hungary, Bulgaria, half the ex-soviet republics, making them drug ridden money laundering centres.
People thought the EU would make countries immune, giving the ex-regime splinter parties a chance.
Busuttil needs to get back down to Malta now. Jason Azzopardi can’t do it all on his own.
Jozef, I agree. Jason is up to the mark.
Where is the PN that I voted for? Why are they keeping silent about all that is going on?
It’s not so much about giving the government rope to hang itself, but more about showing that the opposition remains ever vigilant, that its heartfelt values of decades past when it believed that the truth will out (is-sewwa jirbah zgur!) still matter.
It is true that the PN was left in shambles by a spent team, and is now, trying to self-medicate. Perhaps, valuable resources may be looking inwards, rather than outwards. Yet, whilst the party is busy sorting out its petty cash box, a whole herd of elephants are stampeding through the same room. And as each elephant is ignored, opportunites are lost.
Had PL been in opposition, the present government would have been crucified by the party’s machine. Instead, we have Daphne who seems to be the only investigative journalist and who is doing what PN should, even though it is clear that she is not out to do the PN’s job, but merely her own.
I am disgusted by government methodology as I am by the opposition’s complacency.
There’s no better way to self-medicate than start exercising, as for the petty cash, there were times when a lorry and a loudhailer sufficed.
Busuttil? Has anybody seen or heard of him since 9 March?
I vaguely remember his face AGREEING and lending his support to a certain Joseph Muscat on the irregular immigrants problem and nodding in submissive agreement to the said Joseph, when the latter ” assured ” him that certain procedures were being done transparently and correctly by the present administration. And the c_nt believed him.
The last time a police officer was seen on a yacht belonging to a businessman was Ivan Portelli, who was booted out of the Force by the then Commissioner George Grech, after being investigated by John Rizzo.
He’s a friend of Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando. Was he there as well?
A potential legal counsel for those accused of shocking murder/s and police personnel connected with that criminal investigation should not be together tete-a-tete on the same boat.
I agree with people above who are disappointed at Simon Busuttil. He was a *really* big disappointment. I hope he finds his feet soon and starts to do his job as opposition leader.
I heard Dr. Ann Fenech speak yesterday and I was impressed by the steel behind her prim and proper voice. Frankly I wish she had accepted to run for party leader. She would have been miles better than Simon.
Oh yes. She voted No in the divorce referendum, but she was for the introduction of divorce legislation.
Some steel.
The truth is no one is better than Busuttil. Which gives you some idea of the absolute nadir of talent that is the Maltese political class.
“She would have been miles better than Simon.”
And so would De Marco…! I will however only remain of this opinion if De Marco speaks freely irrespective of Busuttil’s position as leader of the opposition, Frankly, if Busuttil will not get the bull by his horns, someone else has to.
That said, I doubt that anyone, including Fenech, could really have challenged Busuttil’s popular appeal! On the one hand, he was hand picked by Gonzi (which in my books is sufficient reason to look elsewhere.) On the other, Busuttil has that glittery golden boy appeal.
Yet, like the floating voters who voted labour in, the PN Councillors have yet to learn that all that glitters is not gold.
And do note that notwithstanding the subject at hand, there is always an underlying sentiment of increasing disgruntlement about the lack of efficacy of the PN machine.