Another member of the Police Board: the Police Minister’s friend, client and associate at the Rent-A-Car Association
Police Minister Manuel Mallia was, for years until he became minister, secretary-general of and legal adviser to the Rent-A-Car association, of which Victor Gruppetta was/is president.
Now Police Minister Manuel Mallia has had Gruppetta appointed to the Police Board.
So for your delectation, here’s the the entire Police Board in its full glory (let’s leave the chairman, the respectable Judge Franco Depasquale, out of this):
VICTOR GRUPPETTA – friend, client and Rent-A-Car Association colleague of the Police Minister
KEITH CHETCUTI – trusted friend of the Police Minister’s chief of staff, in whose hands he has left his Nexos business while pretending to have nothing to do with it anymore
DEANDRA SCHEMBRI – just 27 years old and an employee of the law practice owned by Economy Minister Chris Cardona and PBS lawyer Mark Vassallo; married to the 27-year-old Labour MP who was elected on the pro-hunting ticket
DAVID FARRUGIA SACCO – failed Labour electoral candidate who was everywhere, addressing press conferences dwar l-arlogg ta’ Tonio, in this last general election; son of the Labour judge who is a party friend of Magistrate Consuelo Herrera, Lino Farrugia Sacco
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Newly appointed PBS lawyer Mark Vassallo is/was also a director/partner at media company Where’s Everybody.
I think that the respectable judge should not have accepted to be the chairman of such a partisan board.
Kemm qedin sew!
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2013-08-11/news/fresh-call-for-legalisation-of-nudist-beaches-and-topless-bathing-2303852545/
That hoary old chestnut once again ! After all it’s the silly season .
How can they really think that anyone can trust such a sorry bunch?
The plot thickens by the hour. Ath this rate it is possible that on the last day of year 5, all the switchers and best friends who voted for Joe’s Movimento, would have received their bun.
Muscat can give around 6,000 more buns, so that he may win the 2018 election with over 42,000 votes more than his opponents.
If Judge Franco Despaquale as you say is respectable, why doesn’t he resign since it’s so obvious that the board isn’t chosen on meritocracy, but on political bais?.
The added problem is that this board falls directly under the President and it is the President whot nominates them. This was another occasion where the old members should not have been asked to tender their resignation and where they should not have offered it.
I may be wrong but isn’t there supposed to be a psychiatrist/psychologist on this board?
All in the family.