Which private security company would that be?
The Sunday Times reports that “a private security company with close connections to the militias is trying to secure” Martin Galea’s release in Libya.
Which private security company would that be?
If it’s Bureau Securitas, it’s owned by Shiv Nair.
It is run out of his main office in Vincenti Buildings, Strait Street, Valletta – he can wave across the narrow street at Manuel Mallia at his desk – which also houses his main operation, La Valette Corporation Ltd.
Bureau Securitas has only two offices in the democratic world: Malta and London.
And Nair’s only got London because he and a bunch of other people, including work associates of lateral thinker Edward de Debono, use the very same Holland Park address – a mansion flat with reams of companies registered to it.
Bureau Securitas’s other offices are in the hotspots of fear, human rights violations and oppression: the United Arab Emirates, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Georgia and Sri Lanka
It’s also got a “network of cooperation partners” in some other very liberal and progressive places: Ecuador, Nigeria, Ghana, Sudan, Rwanda and Uganda, which “take an international approach to the security challenges of its clients”.
I don’t like this at all.
It’s shocking that our government would negotiate through a private security firm – and, if it’s Shiv Nair’s, even worse – rather than calling on the assistance of the governments of other states who have been in this situation before and have specialised intelligence and negotiators.
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http://lavallettecorp.com/bureau_securitas.html
Bureau Securitas’s public procurement operation, listed on its company profile, is World Bank blacklisted Lonestar
See: http://www.bureausecuritas.com/pages/companyprofile/
http://web.worldbank.org/external/default/main?theSitePK=84266&contentMDK=64069844&menuPK=116730&pagePK=64148989&piPK=64148984
http://www.ocnus.net/artman2/publish/Business_1/World-Bank-s-Corrupt-Companies-Blacklist-Dominated-By-Canada.shtml
In other words, mercenaries – especially if they operate in various hotspots.
Joseph Muscat’s concept of government is one based on rewards, exchanging favours, and buying and selling influence in cash. Which also explains the close ‘pee in each other’s pockets’ relationship Muscat has with China, Shiv Nair, and John Dalli.
The involvement of Shiv Nair points only to one thing. Muscat has agreed to pay a ransom for the release of Martin Galea and what is now being negotiated is how much, and by when.
If that is indeed the case, then Muscat by his action will have set up all Maltese nationals working in Libya as soft targets for abduction for ransom.
Isn’t it a basic rule of common sense – if not protocol – that at least one diplomat should be on duty when the ambassador’s away?
Why would foreign governments lend us a proverbial hand to secure the safety of our countryman when we have done nothing to assist their countrymen in an evacuation? Should they do it out of their own good heart? Reciprocity is a pivotal concept in international law, and we scored poorly on that front.
These people grab every opportunity to make money out of vulnerable people’s plights.
Consistent with them being lazy cheapskates though.
This is sick. Black ops and contractors determining our foreign policy.
Ejja Guz, put on your thinking hat.
May I suggest a phone call to the Farnesina.
Journalists, foreign workers, you name it, they pulled them out, Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan, anywhere.
Or does Nair get a cut on the ransom money?
“with close connections to the militias”
Should we take that as foregranted as having an ice cream with or without crushed peanuts on it? The power of capitalist discourse…
“It’s shocking that our government would negotiate through a private security firm.”
Shocking indeed, but hardly surprising. It’s the typical Chinese way to deal with emergencies and disasters in secret, trying to contain them and cover them up before the news can leak. Who cares if that means dismal chances of success? Joseph Muscat is learning fast from his mentors.
SHAME SHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME ON THE government
What is a private security company doing having close connections with the militias? So the Maltese government has engaged the services of terrorists and international criminals.
Way to go, Malta, way to go.
But I guess it figures. Crooks will hire other crooks.
And they don’t even keep it to themselves.
Deducing which militias then, isn’t that difficult.
That’s all we needed, become a target.
It’s not just Shiv Nair, my friends.
It includes Jaime Cremona, the infamous Wilfred Kenely, and Nikoloz Natbiladze.
http://www.lavallettecorp.com/managment.html
Wilfred Kenely was not very infamous under the PN. He went from one position of authority to another leaving messes behind him like an untouchable. I know of at least half a dozen votes lost for the PN because of this. Untouchable he is.
My dear Madoff, it stands to reason that the roots of infamy stretch all the way back to the Nationalist administration. I, for one, have never and will never be selective in my criticism. That is why the NP hate me more than Labour.
See? I told you it was Muscat who said that there’s a secret mission. The idiot said it himself in parliament.
They’re so excited to be living a real-life action movie that they can’t get their act together.
Since when are secret missions talked about openly in parliament?
And why engage a firm that has close contact with the militias? Please don’t tell me it’s because they’ve supplied arms to them in the first place.
Why engage a firm at all? Why not go, cap in hand and soberly, to your allies and ask for help?
Because Malta doesn’t have allies, that’s why.
Exactly. Why engage a firm at all? Because Galea’s friends are not the prime minister and the prime minister’s simply taking credit for other people’s efforts.
“Which private security company would that be?”
“We will not tell you, in the interest of national security.”