Chinese passport-buyer’s Italian minder to Maltese journalists: “Go away and steal some chickens!”

Published: January 21, 2014 at 12:47am

Because, you know, we’re Maltese islanders so it follows that we’re peasants unlike a shabby Italian mafioso and the exploiter of communism in his charge.

If you respect your citizenship so little that you sell it for cash to all-comers, this is the kind of respect you get in return.




47 Comments Comment

  1. Edward says:

    Steal some chickens says the man running away to hide along with his boss, also afraid to show his face.

  2. Mandy says:

    Muscat has prostituted Malta. We couldn’t – and shouldn’t – have expected any better.

  3. calypso says:

    Where do they think that have landed? Malta enjoys liberty and reporters are allowed to investigate.

    This is not China. Are we now going to call this Chinese billionaire a European, when European values are alien to him?

    Where are the Gensna fans now? There’s a barrani right there dismissing the Maltese as chicken-thieves.

  4. R Camilleri says:

    It is obvious why the ‘Chinese billionaire’ did not want his face to be shown on TV. China does not allow dual citizenship.

    • Tarzan says:

      Possibly the Chinese was promised by Henley and Something that he will enjoy total secrecy in this island of chicken thieves.

  5. ganni Xewki says:

    PLEASE, PLEASE Daphne ask all your international spies to discover who this Chinese ‘billionaire’ is… only you can manage it :-) We want to know our new Maltese ‘brethren’!

  6. Gowzef says:

    China does not allow dual citizenship.

    Nor do the Gulf states.

  7. Salvu says:

    Mandate quel filmino a ‘striscia la notizia’ .

  8. Francis Saliba MD says:

    If this is the “talent” that the sale of Malta (EU) passports by Muscat is going to attract to Malta the sooner we ditch the scheme the better for ALL of us.

  9. Spock says:

    If neither China nor the Gulf States allow dual citizenship , how will these prospective clients pass through the ‘strict and transparent due diligence board’? B’min tahseb li qed titnejjek, Joseph?

  10. CIS says:

    Of course that he will come running to get his passport since the secrecy clause has not yet been removed.

    I’m sure that there are others who have already been given their secret passport. Dr Muscat is playing for time.

    In front of his supporters he says ‘noted but no thank you’. Then yesterday he says that he will be having talks with EU Commissioner. Trying to look good.

  11. anthony says:

    Malta l-Qahba Taghna Lkoll.

    • Last Post says:

      Let’s make it more explicit (thanks to Vince Fabri):

      Lil din l-art qaħba,
      l-omm li saret tinbiegħ,
      Tħarisx Mulej;
      Ħallina nagħmlu l-qliegħ.

    • Francis Saliba MD says:

      You should have said: ” … taghhom ilkoll” and it was Muscat who gave it to them cheaply and quicker than anybody else.

  12. Artemis says:

    That’s what I call fowl language.

  13. AE says:

    Finally journalists being proactive. Well done.

  14. Wayne Hewitt says:

    The Italian is only interpreting the impression given by this government. After all, only desperate peasants ask 650,000 euros for their country’s passport.

    This is a reminder of the damage being done to Malta’s reputation by Muscat’s government.

    • Lorry says:

      These are not the type of people that we Maltese want to have a Maltese/European passport. These people are not welcomed in Malta.

    • anthony says:

      The Italian guy deserves Gieh ir-Repubblika.

      After telling us to do a Cyrus or a Natius he invites us to rob a chicken.

      In just a few words he succinctly characterises a disgraced nation.

      Well done.

  15. Paddy says:

    The Chinese gentleman seems so young and yet so rich, how did he make it, I wish I knew how.

  16. Ajma hej says:

    Malta l-ewwel u qabel kollox. Il-barranin ma jghidulniex x’naghmlu.

    Imbaghad ghada lanqas fethet ufficjalment l-iskema tax-xiri tal-passaporti u ga gi bicca Taljan jghidilna mmorru nigru wara t-tigieg.

  17. sammy says:

    this is what Joseph Muscat got Malta in less than a year. What is going to happen next? Worried .

  18. Volley says:

    Oh what a bunch of lovely high-calibre people !

  19. willybegood says:

    If it is proven, that Mr. Minhuwa Xinhuwa, flown to Malta to collect the passport/s, it should be declared by the authorities.

    In the light of this event, and the expeditious manner such potential passport were issued, it is to be explained by the relevant authorities, how the application for citizenship by the spouse of a Maltese citizen last summer, is yet to be acknowledged.

  20. scott brown says:

    Go steal some chickens

    Can this be classified as the first job created from this scheme.

    That is what a huge amount of money can do for you, You just think you are God and that us common people are just rubbish.

  21. Socrates says:

    In Italian, people who help others (regardless of their citizenship) to buy OUR citizenship may be called ‘bastardo’, ‘stupido’,
    arrogante’, ‘leccaculo’ or simply ‘bunga bungista.’

  22. C Falzon says:

    Does anyone know the registration number of the plane? With it it may be possible to find out some interesting information freely available on the net, such as its recent movements and possibly even who owns it.

    The number is always clearly visible on the plane’s fuselage but from the few video clips I saw I couldn’t see it because of the orientation.

    If the billionaire is actually a billionaire it is unlikely that the plane is chartered and would instead be registered either to his name or to one of his companies.

  23. Natalie Mallett says:

    Can you imagine what the comments on facebook and the Times of Malta would be had that incident occurred at Hay Wharf instead of MIA if an asylum seeker refused to be filmed while being brought to shore after being rescued?

    I think Joseph Muscat’s life depends on this scheme. He is fighting for his life like a scared rat about to be shot.

    He did say he would be the first to go if the electricity scheme did not go through.

    Perhaps that deal is also tied to this one with China being the common denominator.

    It’s about time he put all the cards on the table and speaks the truth about the pre-election deals he made with his Chinese allies.

  24. Francis Saliba MD says:

    To think that Mintoff passed laws to forbid entry into Malta of Italian statesmen of repute under the Foreign Interference Act while Muscat encourages the entry of this Italian insolent scum to tout the sale of Malta passports and condones that they reach their private jet clandestinely through a passage reserved for air crew only!

    God have mercy on us and rescue us from this cesspit stench.

  25. There is international news coverage today about the setting up of secret offshore companies, mainly in the Caribbean, by Chinese persons close to officers in power. This Chinese visitor to Malta may well be one of these. I am very uneasy that he had to have an Italian minder.

    A genuine investor whose action is above board does not hide from publicity, and a serious government would not go out of its way to ensure secrecy to the extent of criticising the press for doing it job.

    But should we be surprised? Isn’t that exactly what Joseph Muscat initially wanted, and still provides, in spite of a promise to drop the secrecy requirement?

    Joseph Muscat’s performance in parliament is showing him for what he really is, a chip of the old block of MLP 1970-80 days.

    I am waiting to read what the clever columnists why called for a change have to say.

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