Comments on: Here’s somebody with a Maltese passport he’d like to sell

By: E

Wed, 09 Oct 2013 17:18:08 +0000

Also, could this affect the USA visa waiver programme? If Malta sells passports to whoever can afford it couldn’t that pose a potential security risk to them?

By: E

Wed, 09 Oct 2013 15:12:35 +0000

In reply to tinnat. That's what I was thinking too.

By: tinnat

tinnat — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 13:51:01 +0000

Any one else seeing this passport-buying business as a massive opportunity not just for economic investors but also terrorists seeking to enter the EU legitimately but through the path (and country) of least resistance? Will proper background checks be made? Will the official lists of known terrorists applications be checked?

By: observer

observer — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 13:28:50 +0000

In reply to Francis Saliba MD.

Which ‘socialist intelligentsia’ would be ready to forego the benefits, preferential treatment, and abusive enjoyment of power currently accorded and speak out against government’s obscenities?

I know of none – perhaps because of the limited circle of ‘socialist intelligentsia’ I come in contact with. Maybe there actually are a few out there – but I would not vouch for that.

By: Francis Saliba MD

Francis Saliba MD — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 05:59:58 +0000

In reply to Victor. Only if the European Union allows him and as long as its patience doesn't run out. Mintoff tried the same trick at the CSCE conference until he was forced to cave in when faced by the imminent expulsion of Malta from that European stage. Muscat cannot afford to be ejected from the EU. If that happened he would be dropped like a hot brick by those whose only use for him is as a Trojan horse into the EU market.

By: Francis Saliba MD

Francis Saliba MD — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 05:53:08 +0000

Has the socialist intelligentsia in Malta been muzzled or is too ashamed to be associated with Muscat’s pimping with world-notorious fraudsters permanently debarred by the World Bank?

By: Victor

Victor — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 00:50:12 +0000

And to think that when I tried to talk some sense into certain people who wanted to vote for change, their answer was always ‘we’re in the EU now, he cannot do any harm’.

I hope that they realise that the greatest harm he is going to do is BECAUSE we are in the EU.

By: Grezz

Grezz — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 23:47:54 +0000

In reply to ciccio.

You’re right – permanently debarred on the 11th February 2000 – http://web.worldbank.org/external/default/main?theSitePK=84266&contentMDK=64069844&menuPK=116730&pagePK=64148989&piPK=64148984

By: ciccio

ciccio — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 23:26:31 +0000

In reply to Grezz. Among her friends, there is a certain Pradeep Menon. He is another one on the World Bank's list of permanently debarred individuals.

By: Grezz

Grezz — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 23:18:21 +0000

In reply to etil. No. He has just pimped Malta to a whole host of undesirables.