Here’s another link we need to be looking at more closely. Right now, nobody is looking at it at all.
Shiv Nair’s Portomaso/Malta address, where he actually lives with his wife and children, appears nowhere in a registration context for him.
His registered address, where a couple of his companies are also registered, is given as 135 Holland Park Avenue, London, while his business office is registered at Vincenti Buildings, Strait Street, Valletta.
135 Holland Park Avenue is a mansion, like most others on that stretch of road, one of London’s most notable addresses. The intention on giving his address as ‘135 Holland Park Avenue’ is to create the impression that he owns the entire mansion and lives in it. I won’t bother going into the niceties of what owning and living in a mansion on Holland Park Avenue mean. Suffice it to say that Joseph and Michelle would have missed them all.
But 135 Holland Park Avenue, like most other London mansions, has long since been subdivided into several small flats. Patricia aka Paddy Hills, lateral thinking guru Edward de Bono’s long-time personal assistant and sidekick, is registered at one of them.
Her husband is registered at another one – with Shiv Nair and a man from Tajikistan, called Rustam Ismailov. Companies are also registered at that address. The conclusion to be drawn from this is not, I hope obviously, that Nair is in a menage with a Tajikistani man and with Mr Hills while Mr Hills’ wife lives in the flat beneath. The conclusion is that 135 Holland Park Avenue is an ‘address of convenience’.
It is not a coincidence that Shiv Nair and Edward de Bono’s sidekick Paddy Hills are registered to the same street-door in London. The world is small indeed, but it is not THAT small.
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There is another detail to consider here that may have been lost in the flood of information.
Shiv Nair appears to favour using that version of his name here or, at least, that is the way it appears in the more public forms of communication, i.e. news reports in mainstream media, and there have been very few of those at all.
That truncated form of Nair’s full name is usefully misleading. A random online search using “Shiv Nair” turns up several persons of that name.
Ironically it is the several names of the same person that are interesting. Finding those requires a bit more work – not too much work, but enough to put off lazy reporters like the ones at Malta Today that actually ran a story, or reporters with an ulterior motive (and a tendency to be impressed by money) like the ones at Kullhadd.
We know Muscat is too lazy to do any sort of work at all but he has people around him who are supposed to work for him. Couldn’t they have run a Google search on one of their many smart phones, or are they all mouth-breathers, like Chief of Staff Keith Schembri certainly is?
Who said they didn’t? I am pretty sure they know all this perfectly well, possibly more. I also have a suspicion that, sadly, his “credentials” are what appealed to the likes of Muscat.
Embassy of Turkmenistan is at 131.
Is he a neighbour of John Dalli ?
How about Borat Sagdiyev? Wouldn’t be surprised if he turned up there too.
The plot thickens. All we need now is a Freemasons lodge.