The registered address of Tyre Ltd’s director is that of a gems dealership in Bangkok
Tyre Ltd, incorporated in Malta in February 2011, is the shell company at the centre of the John Dalli Bahamas scandal. Its registered address is John Dalli’s office at Portomaso, where he briefed the press last Saturday.
Dalli’s daughter Claire Gauci Borda has been its company secretary since incorporation, and she and her sister Louisa Dalli were directors for most of 2012, including summer last year, when those Bahamas meetings took place.
Tyre Ltd is run by the international fraudster Eloise Marie Corbin aka Mary Swan/Ladybird/Nina Petros/Myra Klein/Suzara Maling, who operates out of flat 4, 58 High Street, Sliema.
Chutthrathipya Monthonkan, a Thai woman, has been a director since the company was set up. Today, she is the only other director besides the new sole shareholder, Martin Zuch, who for some mysterious reason chose to take on the entire shareholding of a one-year-old company with no visible income, more liabilities than assets, and a debt of Eur500,000, rather than taking the far more sensible course of incorporating his own.
On the documents registered with the Malta Financial Services Authority, Chutthrathipya Monthonkan gives her address as:
1, Soi Soonvijal 1
New Petchburi Road
Huaykwang, Bangkok
10310 Thailand
Company directors should be registered under their home address, not their business address, but it turns out through a simple internet search that this is the address of a gems dealership in Bangkok, called Treasure Express Corporation Ltd, for whom Ms Monthonkan is listed as the contact person.
The fraudster ‘Mary Swan’ has a history many years long of suspicious involvement in Thailand and The Philippines, and was even arrested trying to enter Thailand with a false The Philippines passport, after which she was bailed by her ‘business associates’ and sent to Malta.
When she embroiled, using her Nina Petros alias, the then Bishop of Limassol in a major financial scandal in the late 1990s, one of the accusations on his bill of indictment was that he had somehow managed to accumulate $170 million of assets in Thailand.
Also in Cyprus in the late 1990s, John Dalli’s business associate ‘Mary Swan’ aka Nina Petros ran into major trouble with a notorious heroin trafficker when she failed to pay him, he claimed, the money she owed him for bringing back from Thailand “$250 million worth of gems and gold”.
I honestly hope that it is not something a whole lot uglier than the scamming of donations from gullible American Christians, or even suspect trade in gems and gold, that we are looking at here.
If you want my opinion, I think John Dalli is nuts.
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I agree with your last sentence. This is an EU commissioner for crying out loud. I cannot even begin to understand why he would even think about being involved in something like this.
I have begun to think that perhaps it was John Dalli all along who was behind the green soap cargo from Libya, and not his brother.
‘Nuts’ barely begins to cover it.
…. any connection to Bastjan’s bars of soap perhaps?
I think Joseph Muscat is dangerous.
‘Vetting’ Dalli behind closed doors, let’s say it’s a genuine exercise, but really, what is he thinking?
It sounds like they had quickie trial before the super-secret Star Chamber. Well, so what? It worked just fine in the case of the blokka silg.
And Joseph Muscat is even more so, initially in personally appointing John Dalli as de facto minister of health, and now in the face of the ongoing exposure of the international criminal links of the individuals Dalli has involved himself with.
It is too much to expect John Dalli to resign his government post, and Joseph Muscat is evidently unable to sack him.
John Dalli BA Rules OK.
Martin Zuch is a person who says he bankrupted himself in farms in Africa which do not exist any more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_Ngr6L-Fug
Why would he now buy a bankrupted company?
‘Nuts’ to say the least.
It’s not exactly the world’s best kept secret that gems and gold are used to launder drug money.
I would sooner believe that Dalli willingly gave money to some Nigerian banker for the transfer of an inheritance, rather than believe he is oblivious to world financial practices 101 like these , or had no idea who Mary Swan is.
Coming to think of it, I reach your same conclusion – he is indeed mad.
Now I start to understand why John Dalli did not sue Silvio Zammit for damage to Dalli’s reputation.
What reputation?
The only reason I think that Dalli’s is nuts is for involving his two daughters – or allowing them to be involved – in this mess.
This has “419” scam written all over it
I do not concur that he is nuts. He prides himself of being amongst the best accountants on the island. I believe he knew very well what he was doing. Also this was not the first company that he founded. Therefore my conclusion is that he is a dishonest and dangerous person.
Daphne, John Dalli is not nuts, he is a self-centred, deceitful, liar, a bully and an unaccountable and irresponsible political dinosaur who continues to bring Malta into disrepute.
He has conducted business with that woman (Eloise Marie Corbin aka Mary Swan/Ladybird/Nina Petros/Myra Klein/Suzara Maling) who is definitely a criminal with a bad reputation. Many politicians in the EU have had to resign their position for lesser allegations made against them.
John Dalli has not only brought Malta’s name into disrepute, he is also bringing the PN into disrepute.
He is still a party member. There must be someone in the party with enough courage to demand to have his membership withdrawn.
I was a party member in the 1980s. When I returned to Malta in 1995 and realised what John Dalli was up to I refused to give my support again. I am now convinced that I took the right decision.
After all that you have published recently about Johnny Cash “Dallis” it is unacceptable that the PM has not asked for his resignation and held him accountable. Joseph Muscat has been conducting business with a suspected criminal. That is unheard of in any democratic country.
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat is defrauding the nation out of its democracy and accountability. Why? The Maltese nation, no matter what their political beliefs, should unite and demand that this charade is stopped before Malta’s international reputation gets dragged further into a political sewer.
After the meeting with Joseph, John Dalli said ‘No Change’.
I wonder if the above changes anything!!!
American Christians….lol…my foot
John Dalli is either taking Malta for a ride or he has been taken on the biggest ride of his life!