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July 15, 2014 at 10:06pm
Posted by Antoine Vella:
Public opinion has to understand that Shiv Nair and the Chinese company were not blacklisted because someone in the World Bank doesn’t like them.
Blacklisting is a serious matter and only done when there is ample proof of persistent corruption and/or criminal activity.
Muscat, on our behalf, is dealing with criminals and corrupt persons. He’s not just conducting business but is actually very close to them, on very friendly terms. And he doesn’t want to tell us anything.
Are we expected to remain indifferent? Suspect nothing?
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I think we’re expected to remain positive, because that’s what Muscat tells us to do.
That’s how pyramid schemes work. If you notice something wrong happening and say something, people will call you negative. It’s the same story over and over.
But in this case, it will come crashing down on Malta.
This is one instance of many similar. Nobody is doing a thing about it except mumbling and complaining or just let it pass like water under the bridge.
I expect the Opposition to take a firm stand on what is going on and if need be walk out of parliament until this corrupt government that boasted of Malta Taghna Lkoll and meritocracy is brought to its senses. The Opposition must do something even if it has to hit below the belt, where it hurts.
I agree. But the double whammy the people dealt to the PN effectively told it to shut up. We got the Government and Opposition that we deserve.
The PN got the message (well they actually had indicators even well before the election) that they needed to mend and change their ways rapidly.
We were promised from Joe Saliba days that the PN would listen to the grassroots and they needed to put their ears to the ground. It continued with Paul Borg Olivier and now with Chris Said. Somehow the ears got stuck to the ground and they heard nothing else.
After the last elections (even the EU one, dont forget that too) we had the PN leadership acting again apologetically, which was understandable.
But are we to continue hearing the same apologies and promises in an endless loop? The Opposition must have by now not only examined the doings and misdoings of the past, but moved on to a new strategy to tackle the party in Government and stop it dead on its track of governing us so obscenely.
The Opposition has also a very daunting challenge in informing and educating the politically blind supporters whose infirmity is allowing their masters to lead them wherever they (the masters) want, at their expense.
I do not wish to harp on the reasons why the PL is in power when it should not have been there. People do make mistakes (intentional and not) and now they, and unfortunately many blameless others, will live to regret it.
However we all recognise that we have to move on and a strong opposition must somehow materialise. We expect to see a new kind of politics from the PN, and this can only come from a right mix of people from the PN stable. Let them analyse and plan what they have to do, but do it they must, and fast. For the sake of all Maltese of goodwill who see the worst side of this government.
So it is not a question of anybody getting what he deserves. We should not be in this deep well. We must help each other climb up the walls of this deep pit, step by step, until we say we can see the light. The PN must play the leading role in this ‘mixja ghal-helsien’. Many are depending on this. If the PN leadership do not show their balls now, they can go and play fiddle in id-Dar Centrali until new digital recording media are discovered.
It’s all still waters over at the Opposition. If this procrastination is not some sort of well-planned strategy, which I very much doubt, then we should be really worried.
hi CiVi…on same note please see my post above
Well said Don Camillo.
It takes just one thrown pebble to start a ripple effect, but we need that one pebble desperately.
However, faced with all this deafening silence, I presume that the PN is lying dormant only to make a big come back nearer election time. Though, if people keep looking for what might make their purses fatter, and be gullible to all the lies and false justifications Joseph Muscat and Co. will surely come up with, then we are most likely to end up with another PL legislature.
When one reckons that what might have tipped the scales so much in favour of the PL was the Electricity Reduction issue, it leaves us with little faith in the electorate’s maturity.
Muscat knows that the majority of the Maltese are indifferent to his particular type of politics and therefore he is bulldozing ahead whilst the Opposition takes its summer holidays. Sad but so true.
Antoine is so right.
In fact the World Bank website list specifies that Nair’s blacklisting is PERMANENT.
The virgin Chinese must have a different definition of the word corruption than that of the World Bank and Joseph Muscat and his Castile Champagne Socialists seem to keep learning fast from their Chinese Communist buddies.
… all the Maltese care about is money in their pockets – whether by fair or foul means they don’t give a monkey’s ….
Meanwhile, the police are on stop leave, presumably to help cope with the extra flood of TEFL students their promo video has brought in.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140715/local/police-on-unprecedented-stop-leave.527845
No, they are on stop leave because there’s a national shortage of waiters.
… which shortage was also caused by the unprecedented influx of TEFL students, chaperoned by their terrified parents.
If those who are blacklisted by the World Bank because of their persistent corruption – like China Communications Construction Company or Shiv Nair – offer Joseph Muscat’s government free gifts like a Eur 4 million feasibility study (CCCC) and contacts with persons at high levels in Qatar and China for a measly “Eur 6,000” fee (Shiv Nair) – isn’t that an act of corruption in itself?
Isn’t the access to persons of power and decision makers with “free gifts” to government tantamount to an act of corruption?
And the direct contact with the prime minister is totally uncalled for. There should be rules to prohibit the prime minister and his cabinet from such direct relations with “donors” to the government.
Such donors should be subject to scrutiny by Parliament and the PAC.
People also need to understand how corruption extends beyond the individual.
One of the many companies Shiv Nair’s PARENTS hide behind was also blacklisted by the World Bank.
Click on the company diectors and board members tab at http://www.companieslist.co.uk/03089581-lonestar-supplies-and-logistics-pvt-ltd
The listed Pradip Nair, supposedly of Georgia, also known as Shiv Nair, Shiv Preyan Shanker Nair, Shiv Shankaran Nair, Pradeep S Nair, Shiv Shankor, etc., was appointed consultant to Joseph Muscat, Prime Minister of Malta, and on retainer as a consultant to Malta Enterprise, after having been permanently debarred by the World Bank for fraud and corruption.
Shivshanker Pre Nair and Indira Nair are his parents.
Lonestar Supplies and Logistics (PVT) Ltd., a Nair company, formerly known as International Project Managers plc and, before that, as Amani BP Ltd., was also debarred by the World Bank for fraud at the same time as the Nairs were permanently debarred. See http://web.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=64148989&piPK=64148984&theSitePK=84266&theSitePK=84266&contentMDK=64069844&querycontentMDK=64069700&sup_name=AMANI&supp_country=
Shiv Nair, Muscat’s (supposedly) former consultant, seems to have used two separate aliases and two different addresses, listing himself as two ostensibly different people as diectors/ board members of Consultants for International Development Ltd. That’s yet another Nair company that was permanently debarred by the World Bank for fraud and corruption.
See http://web.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=64148989&piPK=64148984&theSitePK=84266&theSitePK=84266&contentMDK=64069844&querycontentMDK=64069700&sup_name=CONSULTANTS%20FOR%20INTERNATIONAL%20DEVELOPMENT&supp_country=GB
and click on the directors / board members tab at http://www.companieslist.co.uk/02588111-consultants-for-international-development-limited
Pradeep Menon, a friend and business associate of Shiv Nair (he’s a Facebook friend of Oksana Nair, Shiv Nair’s wife) is also permanently debarred by the World Bank.
Shiv Nair is China’s intermediary, specialising in developing major infrastructure projects financed by Chinese EXIM credit. China’s main infrastructure company, owned by the state and run by the party secretary, is China Communications Construction Company, blacklisted by FIVE institutions: the World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Asian Development Bank, the Interamerican Development Bank, and the African Development Bank.
China Communication Construction Company is conducting a “free” feasibility study on a permanent link between Malta and Gozo, which Muscat accepted because he wasn’t allowed to say no.
That blacklisted company is now going to take on other major infrastructure projects in Malta. So China has its blacklisted company with a blacklisted fraudster as its intermediary cutting deals with Muscat in China’s favour.
Shiv Nair is the company’s front man. Muscat said Nair is not working for him. He never did. He works for China.
In other words, it seems that in the Nair family corruption runs in their DNA. Its a hereditary ‘condition.’
You mentioned the EXIM Bank. Did you notice this line in Joseph Muscat’s “ground-breaking” MOU:
“The parties shall also discuss the provision of commercial loans by financial institutions in connection with such projects.”
It is in the section on “infrastructure.”
There are two things I can read in this line:
1. China is not giving us a breakwater for free.
2. Shiv Nair has managed to arrange another loan for the EXIM Bank.
Shiv Nair’s focus is the infrastructure project. Financing the project is a secondary interest.
Of course China’s not giving Malta a breakwater for free. The question is not whether they’ll be paid, but how.
China doing investment in Malta? More like China is doing us in.
It-Tezi ta’ Mario, I disagree with your comment about financing. In fact, as John says, China does not do investment. China burdens its subjects with loans in connection to its so called “investments” – but those loans have to be repaid by the subjects.
So effectively, the investment in any project financed by Chinese loans is done by the country which pays for the loan.
The first person Muscat met in China was Liu Qitao, president of blacklisted China Communications Construction Company and secretary of the China Communist Party.
Later, he met Chinese bank officials (state-owned, led by party men) who nailed him on financing large scale projects in Malta using China’s money.
Breakwaters don’t provide a provide a direct financial return on investment. A bridge might, if it carries heavy traffic over a span of 50 years and doesn’t collapse in the meantime, as some of CCCC’s bridges did.
Who’s doing the infrastructural work for the new power station and in Marsaxlokk, who’s financing it, and who’s getting a cut?
Ok, let us analyse it this way.
China has perfected the art of doing business deals relating to infrastructure projects – only in its interest of course.
Let’s take the example of a bridge.
China not only engages itself in the business of building bridges, but it is also in the business of providing loans to help customers buy a bridge from China.
So in one leg, China offers to build a bridge, and in the second leg, China offers to provide the finance to build that bridge.
At this point, the customer sees a complete easy solution to the need (if there is one) for a bridge.
Of course, instead of a bridge it could be a breakwater or a monorail…
At the end, China gets three deals out of one:
1. China sells a bridge – this is done through its corrupt businesses like CCCC.
2. China bags a loan to the customer, on which China gets interest earnings and loan repayments. This is done through its banking arms like the China EXIM Bank or the African Development Bank.
3. China enslaves the customer through the loan and the infrastructural commitments – although the customer would normally claim that China has made a big “investment” in the country.
Is there any other sovereign state in the world which does business this way?
It is no wonder that the system gets infested with corruption, when you have so much concentration of power, conflicts of interst, absence of private enterprise, no separation of roles and so on.
Why does Muscat do what China says?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wSi8lO4fzIc
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OKWSx4S1oLI
I am sorry,Antoine, but Muscat is not dealing with anybody on my behalf. Over my dead body.
I will never remain indifferent. I will denounce Jo as a criminal to the four corners of the world.
Suspect nothing? That is what you think.
I would be highly suspicious of Jo’s ulterior motives even if he planned a private meeting with Manwel Mallia’s Madonna and her son Jesus.
I would pray to the Holy Spirit to alert them both as to his iniquity.
We are not being governed by politicians. We are being governed by a bunch of plunderers. They are pillaging and plundering all that they possibly can.
May I ask a question?
But how is it that the MFSA does not question anything about this blacklisted person and company by the World Bank?
Will someone enlighten me pls?
http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/01/well-now-we-know-why-joe-bannister-let-his-name-and-that-of-the-malta-financial-services-authority-to-joseph-muscats-scheme-to-sell-passports/
Muscat knows that he can do what he likes as there is a dormant opposition and a good majority in Parliament.
He also knows that very many Maltese are of the Xarabank mentality. I hope that someday Muscat will be made to answer seriously for all the “”hnizrjiet”” he is now doing.
Blacklisted China Communications Construction Company and blacklisted China Harbour Engineering Company paid a bribe to a Chinese port authority.
The port authority chairman was sentenced to death. The company chairman moved to another state enterprise. Democracy, Chinese style.
Both companies were named in a corruption trail from China to Bangladesh, Jamaica and Guyana involving Chinese EXIM credit.
Why not Malta too?
Blacklisted China Communication Construction Company has an MOU with Muscat on several major infrastructure projects. Its subsidiary blacklisted China Harbour Engineering Company will likely be assigned to execute some or all of the projects.
Blacklisted Shiv Nair specialises in developing major infrastructure projects financed by Chinese EXIM credit.
http://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2012/06/08/chinese-official-sentenced-to-death-taking-bribes-from-cjia-contractor/
http://newsfirst.lk/english/2014/02/extend-challenge-prove-cccc-china-harbour-banned-harsha-de-silva/21748
Blacklisted Shiv Nair’s client, the blacklisted China Communication Construction Company, is notorious for jacking up project costs.
The did it in The Phillipines, in Jamaica, In Kenya, in Bangladesh, in Guyana, in China, and in Sri Lanka.
This is the company with which Muscat signed an MOU on a permanent link across the Gozo channel. He announced they will take on other major infrastructure projects too.
Why hasn’t Muscat published his MOU with China Communication Construction Company?
15th July 2014
http://www.trust.org/item/20140715205110-works/
China Communications Construction Company fraudulently awarded a half billion dollar contract. Costs inflated to double the normal rate.
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Prosit, Antoine – but if any such question is asked the answer would be ‘mhux fl’interess nazzjonali’ or ‘kwistjoni ta sigurta nazzjonali’. You choose.