Sai Mizzi: is she a glorified slave trader?
In-Nazzjon reports today that large numbers of Chinese people are being routinely trafficked into Malta and that the trafficking has an organisational base in Malta itself as well as China.
The slave-workers/indentured labourers brought in to work at Leisure Clothing are then sold into white slavery, working as prostitutes in massage parlours, as escorts, or literally sold as chattels to Maltese men who want a woman in the house for sex, food and cleaning but none of the hassle that goes with a wife or girlfriend.
The women are also being sold as domestic slaves.
Sai Mizzi has systematically refused to say what her job will be in China, except that her main priority is to speed up the issuing of visas.
This was reported in Times of Malta, Malta Today and The Malta Independent last July. I’ve uploaded screenshots from all three newspapers here.
Her employer is Malta Enterprise – at least, that is what we have been told, but Malta Enterprise and the government are fighting off all Freedom of Information requests to have her contract made public.
The government was, however, quite happy to release Lou Bondi’s contract when similar requests were made under the same Freedom of Information Act. The government is also holding out against demands, under the same law, for publication of its agreement with British citizen Shiv Nair, who has been permanently blacklisted by the World Bank for corruption. Nair is a broker and fixer for the Chinese government.
Yet is is not Malta Enterprise which deals with visas. The responsibility for issuing visas lay with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs but after the change in government it shifted, sinisterly, to the Police Minister’s control.
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Why are you assuming that these Chinese people have got valid visas? Chances are that, if they have been here for decades, then they probably don’t, which would be part of the reason why they would have remained living and working in those conditions.
Here’s a similar case which could shed light on the mindset of such people:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140807/local/-Employer-forced-his-dad-s-carer-to-eat-salt-.530853
Sai Mizzi is Malta’s employment agency in China.
Does she receive a commission for every slave/ visa issued on top of her hefty salary?
http://maltarightnow.com/news/2014/10/31/esklussiva-tfajliet-cinizi-mibjugha-ghal-skop-ta-sess-u-kumpanija-u-biex-iseftru-u-jaghmluha-ta-carers-ma-anzjani/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Who is the ex minister referred to? Only one comes to mind that had an important position in the EU but perhaps I am mistaken.
[Daphne – Two: John Dalli and Joe Borg. And soon a third, Tonio Borg. Give a wild guess.]
The Qormi Mafia ?
Well you did say that you had a sneaking feeling that we’ll soon hear how John Dalli is entangled in this mess.
This also means that Dalli has been carrying on with members in the Labour Party for longer than we ever imagined.
Which John Dalli, the one who proposed a floating power plant or the one under whose watch as food and standards commissioner, Malta became a hub for smuggling chemically treated feeds when these were supposedly organic?
of course. Easy.
It is indeed a tangled web we weave – thank goodness for DCG.
Does it mean she opens the waterworks if we call her Madame Mizzi?
Madam Mizzi the Dragon lady.
I think most of us haven’t yet understood where human life figures in Maoism.
And I do think the PN must emphasize Western values incessantly.
This is the great divide, all those fabled connoisseurs of fine living, art and Joseph’s new deal, make up your minds.
Nationalised white slavery, how exotic and reminiscent of past splendour.
Could this be a coincidence? How come we did not see the writing on the wall before? Perhaps it is time to see some mighty heads roll over this scandal.
Sorry, but who ,do you think is going to conduct the proper investigations?
Hemm hi ic-Ciniza li lahhaqtu ‘ambaxxatrici,’ switchers.
SHAME ON YOU.
Someone in authority must be aware of what is going on in this shameful story and is either looking the other way or else directly involved.
Sai Mizzi must be a very lucky girl that she didn’t end up abused and exploited at Leisure Clothing. She was also lucky that she married a man who became minister after the 2013 general election. This is not enough. She was also lucky that she got a contract that earned her £13,000 euro a month. I don’t know if the Chinese girls at Leisure Clothing know her. If they do they must be very jealous of her.
We will never know.
All the pieces of information coming out are falling into place and they explain why, even under PN administrations, this human trafficking and inhuman treatment of employees, was not checked.
Seems that this Leisure Clothing was run by Labour cronies who had the protection of corrupt officials and the GWU.
Considering how this factory morphed from Bortex Clothing, and the latter’s affinity to Labour’s Lino Spiteri and to the Labour Party itself puts everything in a different perspective.
Do not expect this government to hold a serious inquiry into this scandal, so the PN should continue its own investigation.
It is about time that the PN ask direct questions about all this in Parliament. If the government doesn’t come clean, then there is no choice but for the PN to boycott Parliament until the government make public all the information. THE PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW.
[Daphne – Boycott parliament? Do you even know how representative democracy works? Why do people say these things.]