Comments on: Here’s the form which those who wish to ‘introduce’ passport applicants (to Henley & Partners) must fill in and submit to Henley & Partners

By: Carmelo Micallef

Carmelo Micallef — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 10:40:22 +0000

In reply to Carmelo Micallef. Mr Nuri Katz has repeated (TOM today) the allegation that Henley and Partners can hold all monies for two years without liability

By: Gullible's Travels

Gullible's Travels — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 23:19:27 +0000

How competent are Henley & Partners to conduct the due diligence process on IIP Malta citizenship applicants when they cannot even ensure to avoid misspelling words like “submit”, for which they write “sumbit”, and “verify”, for which they write “virefy”, on pages 1 and 5 respectively of their MIIP Introducers Form.

Will it be possible that undesirable characters will eventually manage to filter through their due diligence process in much the same way that these spelling mistakes have managed to escape their proofreading?

By: ciccio

ciccio — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 22:46:12 +0000

In reply to Harry Purdie (back on the rock). Hello Harry, I think it is a billy pad, actually.

By: It all Stinks

It all Stinks — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 12:26:51 +0000

It is even worse – Maltese practitioners, even those holding a warrant, will rely on the benevolence of Henley & Partners as to whether they will be able to act as their agent. If Henley & Partners do not want to work with you, you cannot offer the service.

If they do approve you, Henley & Partners get the privilege of sharing the fees earned on your own client. So they get all those clients in their own network and those they gets due to its privileged positioning as the sole concessionaire, and get to sweep up clients of everyone else too.

This not to mention the very real possibility that they are then perfectly positioned to poach those clients to sell to them all those other services they are now providing in Malta – trusts, companies, shipping, property rentals and sale…

If I am not mistaken, the ‘agents’ get paid their share only if the client’s application is successful, whilst doing all the work. Henley gets paid anyway as the client has to pay the fee up front.

By: Gaetano Pace

Gaetano Pace — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 11:40:56 +0000

Is any Bill Gates coming our way on one of these incentives ? That is what I CALL TALENT not our Joseph.

By: unhappy

unhappy — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 11:02:56 +0000

So a private company not governed by any regulatory body without any ethics code should hijack a government programme?

Meanwhile reputable professional law and accounting firms have to act as its agent and have to undergo a due diligence check for being one.

Even more pathetic is that such private company can reap a commission for cases procured by these professional firms.

And this is called equal footing by the PM.

By: Carmelo Micallef

Carmelo Micallef — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 07:58:08 +0000

In reply to P Sant. If one did not know better it could be concluded that this is an international money laundering scheme, all these different fiscal jurisdictions, Henley and Partners as the perfect `blind spot` with their multi jurisdiction network acting on behalf of their Master. Has it been confirmed that Henley and Partners have the contractual authority of the Malta Govt to hold onto the potential 1.17 billion euro for 2 years without the need to guarantee the full transfer of this sum?

By: Harry Purdie (back on the rock)

Harry Purdie (back on the rock) — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 00:05:48 +0000

Love it. The fat frog has found his lily pad. Check that, milly pad.

By: La Redoute

La Redoute — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 23:33:22 +0000

Will they qualify? The famous one won’t be applying.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1NYNAcUXA2E/UK3PQChnUaI/AAAAAAAAmEk/YNLGkT7Iaw0/s320/bin-laden-family+2.jpg

By: P Sant

P Sant — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 23:30:25 +0000

All this insistence with Henley & Partners makes me really wonder.