Hurry! The Malta government is “in a rush”! Special offer on unlimited stocks of Malta passports with visa-free travel to the US! Sale sale sale! Irrikorru ghand Manuel Mallia u Joseph Muscat. SALE KBIR.
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October 29, 2013 at 11:38am
So, for every passport sold for the full price of Eur650,000:
– Henley & Partners get Eur240,000 (or Eur290,000 for fast-tracking) – Eur140,000 commission, as a cut, from the seller, and Eur100,000 fee from the buyer + another 50% of that for fast-tracking
– the Malta government gets Eur650,000 less the commission of Eur140,000 it pays to Henley, which means Eur510,000.
This means that for every full-price Maltese passport sold, Henley gets half as much as Malta.
We need clarification on what happens to the commissions, fees and numbers when add-on passports are sold at Eur25,000 for ‘wives’ and children and at Eur50,000 for stray grandparents and in-laws.
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We need to know who Henley & Partners and their Associates are – who are their share holders? I’m quite sure this sale of Maltese passports will line much more than the state coffers.
Better still I would ask whether they have a Malta representative.
Ok, so I live in Baku, Azerbaijan. I would like to obtain a Maltese passport. I need it very quickly, to travel to and live in Germany, because lots of gas and oil but no democracy and no freedom in Azerbaijan.
I heard that in Raxxja they have a fast tracking procedure for and extra charge of 50%. How much is the percentage for my “fast tracking” in Azerbaijan?
Is it possible to get a petition started to turn this down? After all, this was not even in the electoral manifesto.
Maybe the only solution, when the law is passed through Parliament (it has already been approved for all of Henley and Partners’ intents and purposes), is for the Opposition to start collecting signatures to hold an abrogative referendum…that is buying back our dignity.
[Daphne – Oh come off it. I can see that working like a dream, I don’t think.]
Apparently Joseph Muscat is visiting London later this week to launch the scheme. I heard he is addressing a conference on Thursday.
How can he go to London to promote this scheme to the ‘potential Maltese’ without getting approval by us Maltese citizens or at least by our representatives is beyond belief.
Shouldn’t they be first telling us what is this so called National Development Fund? Do we really have to wait until they launch in the UK to find out what are the fund’s objectives, who will administer it and what will it invest in?
Will the money put in this fund be treated as grant, loan or equity? Can the future holder of Maltese passports gain any profits from their payments?
There is a lot to be explained.
Rather than wasting time at BBC, maybe it would be better if the Maltese communications students at PAI take their lecturers to Joseph’s launch and ask if the selling of EU passports is truly an avant-garde style of governance like their PM believes?
So cheap, Manwel Mallia can buy one with his spare cash.
Malta -the prostitute of the Mediterranean
Ronnie, possibli ma tafx kemm hu difficli biex tfihem in-naghag ta`Bendu. Rigward l-implikazzjonijiet li jista` jidhol fihom il-pajjiz, bil-bejgh tal-passaporti.