Don Manuel and Codruta: they even lie about something as basic as a name and address
The mother of the Police Minister’s children is not Codruta Mallia. She is Elena Codruta Cristian.
Even though her husband is flogging Maltese citizenship, she is not a Maltese citizen herself. Her identity card details show that she is still registered as A for resident alien (which includes EU citizens). This means she does not even have a vote in general elections despite her husband being in politics.
She first appears on the electoral roll – which includes resident aliens because they can vote in local council elections – in April 2009.
Elena Codruta Cristian is registered to the family home at Mill Street, Valletta, where Don Manuel has lived for years even before she arrived on the scene.
Don Manuel is registered as living at his villa in Ta’ Cenc, Gozo, and has been since at least 2003. This despite the fact that he does not live there, never has because it is a holiday place, and his main address and full-time home is in Valletta.
People in Malta take their registered address lightly. They switch it about without a second thought to save on Gozo ferry fares and for other reasons. Yet what they are doing there is making a false declaration. Your registered address has to be the place where you live full-time, your real home.
This might not matter so much for ordinary citizens. But for the Police Minister to lie about his address is something else altogether. The Police Minister’s registered address should be the place where he really lives. We can’t have a situation in which a minister of state is lying about something as fundamental as this, and so needlessly.
It’s bad enough that his wife is lying about her name.
It’s bad enough that, though they are not separated, they have completely different registered addresses – which is something I thought only permissible on separation because when you are registered as living apart, even if you are not actually living apart, it is a black-on-white declaration that you are de facto separated.
I wouldn’t put it past a man like Don Manuel to use this to his advantage under Maltese law – not that I am in the least bit exercised by Elena Codruta Cristian’s fate.
Which brings me to the next question – are those two actually married? Or have they been lying about that too? I think everyone has forgotten, even if they ever knew in the first place, that Don Manuel was married already, to a lovely lady called Nevise who was way too good for him. He left her a way back after Giannella Caruana Curran (as she was at the time) left her husband and the two began seeing each other. Then he left her too and began seeing the most awful woman in Gozo, part of that whole Carol Peralta/Dennis Montebello crowd.
How he wangled a second marriage is anybody’s guess as we are talking pre-divorce legislation here.
But that’s by the by, the real point here being the slew of lies about even fundamental details which there is no need to lie about (not that there is ever need to lie about anything). The casualness with which they do it is astounding, and in their position, too.
Don Manuel embraces the father of one of Malta’s most notorious and vicious cocaine traffickers – a man who was under investigation from Brazil to London to Rome to Malta, and who finally got a 15-year jail sentence with Manuel Mallia as his defence counsel.
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Speechless! Scoop says it all.
Is Codruta receiving single mother benefits? I wouldn’t put anything past Manuel Mallia in the money stakes.
I am more inclined to think that the different registered addresses as Manwel Mallia”s doing:
1) to benefit from reduced water and electricity fees at both addresses and
2) assuming that they really ARE married, to keep his options open should he decide he wants a divorce (seeing that he would have had a different residential address to his wife for at least some – if not all – the pre-requisite four years before a divorce is granted in Malta.
That is mainly why they are registered on two different addresses, so that they benefit from residential rates on both instead of domestic rates as should be.
Residential rates (0-2000 units) is at €0.1047
Domestic rates (0-2000) is at €0.1365
How does that affect her community of acquests? Shall we ask Helena Dalli?
Someone from Gozo had commented below an earlier post that each spouse having a separate address has a tax advantage if either of the properties is sold, allegedly because you pay less tax on a residence. I guess if this is a fact then even if the two are not married that advantage can be had.
If the two are married and they wanted a divorce in Malta, is this a good way of getting around the 4-year wait because on paper they have actually been living apart?
Why would they want to divorce when they service each other’s purposes so well?
Yes, I think that both your assumptions are correct.
Meta tkellem fil-Parlament dwar il-kaz tal-isparatura fil-Gzira mix-xufier tieghu, hu sostna li kien ghall-attivita’ li kienet qed issir fid-Depot tal-Pulizija “mal-mara”. Fit-terminu Malti dan ifisser dak li ‘wife’ tfisser fl-ingliz.
I have full sympathy for anyone with an (A)-id card dragging their feet to change the address. It is a major hassle, with hours of queuing on several days.
To get my new id-card was a total nightmare, despite being married to a Maltese for 24 years (who I also had to drag along as proof that we are still married).
[Daphne – Codruta’s ‘husband’ is the Boss Man of ID Cards, Katrin. Can’t see her queuing.]
The next he`ll be telling us is that he weighs 82kg and has a 32 inch waist.
Well, she herself uses the name Codruta Mallia.
https://www.facebook.com/search/more/?q=Codruta+Mallia&init=public
Why are you shocked, Daphne?
We have our Energy Minister living somewhere in Malta and his beloved wife together with their children, somewhere in China.
And the DeMarco Wannabbee Toad gets to vote on the Great Leader’s Billions Bridge Referendum while the rest of us don’t.
I still say Mallia bought her from one of his cronies.
It is either that, or the situation in Bucharest must be really desperate.
Around 10 / 12 years ago, when Romania was not yet a full member of the EU, Romanian women were very desperate to get to EU countries.
The diplomatic missions were witnesses to the many contortions and efforts to get visas to EU countries.
Many couples pretend to separate bonarjament for financial gain.
They are not in effect separated but legally they have separate addresses. In their official status they have to state that they are separated. So the children are registered as such. How foolish!
Registering his Gozo residence in his name would also benefit from water and electricity bills, since the tariffs would be based on one person on the villa. As the Maltese adage goes “ghall sold jqaxxar qamla”.
Daphne, I think it is important to emphasise the distinction between gossip mongering and examining the dimensions of the personal life of a public official.
Exposing such dimensions is not tantamount to a personal attack on the official in question. Rather it is an emphasis on disclosure to ascertain the integrity of officials, their ability to hold public office, and serve their country well.
As you have said many times, the Maltese do not understand this democratic principle. They would argue that a man’s (or a woman’s) personal life doesn’t have any bearing on his (or her) capacity to hold public office.
However, if a person lies about or hides important episodes from his past, are we to expect lies and secrets about important issues in the present? Would that person lie and hide the truth about matters of national interest? If a person treats his family badly, aren’t we to suppose that he’d treat other citizens in the same way? If a man or a woman cannot retain his/her vow of loyalty, how are we to conceive that he would keep his electoral promises?
I believe that this is the point you are making. Unfortunately, I am not entirely sure that most would understand this point and thus would relegate your blog posts as gossip mongering and as an “attakk fahxi fuq il persuna.”
It seems to me that the Nationalist Party do have to go back to basics and build a strong sensitivity among the Maltese of the operation of democracy and the rights this sacrosanct principle awards us.
[Daphne – Not really, no. The lies are only a part of it. The basic democratic principle is that if you ask people for your vote, you have to tell them exactly who and what you are, and that includes your marital status. People have every right to know exactly who and what they are voting for, they should demand to have that right respected, and politicians should not seek to circumvent it by going on about ‘being personal’. If they have nothing to hide, they have nothing to hide, and if they have something they would rather have concealed from those whose vote they ask for, they shouldn’t be in politics at all. Parliamentary democracy was born in the Anglo-Saxon world and works best where its spirit is adhered to. Wherever attempts are made to mix parliamentary democracy with Latinate concepts of the right to muck around in private in and out of bed, disaster has ensued for the electorate. Think France and Italy. I don’t suffer from anxieties about discussing the private life of politicians, nor do I suffer from anxiety about the reaction of those who do. I think they are backward, locked in a Mediterranean timewarp and even a little bit stupid. Anybody who demands the privilege of representing us in parliament has lost the right to keep things hidden from us.]
Iiiii, x’gharukaza. Kif tista` tinvestiga lis-single mothers imsieken. Mela Manwel jahxi u min m`ghandu xejn ma jahxix. Halluna, qabda mbarazz.
The internet will ultimately lead to PL’s downfall. When lies, obscurantism, corruption and dodginess characterise a party, its existence in the modern world will be short lived.
Oh but there are very generous tax refunds for resident and non-resident foreign shareholders of companies registered in Malta. Could that explain?
Many people with a history of voting for the Nationalist Party, but who voted for Manuel Mallia in the last general election, made the mistake of thinking of him as the archetypal Nationalist.
Nothing could be further from the truth and that’s the very reason why the Nationalist Party kept him at arm’s length. The PN made the colossal mistake of never portraying him for what he is, and this because of its misguided policy on not getting ‘personal’. This is such a mistake, because telling electors the truth is not being ‘personal’, but giving them an honest and factual basis on which to take a correct decision.
If more people knew what sort of person Manuel Mallia is (they know now), they wouldn’t have given him their vote.
Spot on.
I’m keeping my mouth shut this time.
Codru in Romanian means forest and Codruta means ‘little girls of the forest’. It seems as if Little Red Riding Hood has met the Big Bad Wolf.
The way the Labour Cabinet is bleeding the government dry, I would say she has met the Maltese Count Dracula.
MANWEL IS FAST ASLEEP DREAMING OF A NEW & EXCITING AFM & POLICE FORCE:
DREAM 1
The AFM of the future:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RHg0f5Nq4c
DREAM 2
The AFM tribute to Don Manwel at the August Moon Ball:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJPgveHnMd0
DREAM 3
“MONEY, MONEY, MANWEL”
The AFM’s enter next year’s Eurovision Song Contest……….THEY WIN!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeylYTczphs
DREAM 4
The Police Academy Pop Group “THE MANWEL BOYS” reach NO 1 on the BAY RADIO COUNTDOWN.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i820hl-C0Nw
MANWEL’S DREAM IS RUDELY INTERRUPTED AS THE PHONE RINGS. MANWEL ANSWERS.
“This better be important. I was working on my vision for the AFM & Police Force!”
“But JOSEPH. I can’t resign now! They’ve been rehearsing for MONTHS.”
“OK. We’ll invent a another story. CIAO!”
‘THE SHOW MUST GO ON’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fEbMhR_qXk
What about the ‘catering business’ dream. Can you come up with something on this along the above lines, please?
Don Manuel might be dreaming about China having a bigger stake on the worldwide web control. China is demanding to share governance of internet at the expense of the USA.
In a few words, Fatty Manuel doesn’t know whether he is coming or going.
Well, it was the 10th District switchers who put him in his present position, wasn’t it.
Perhaps (or should one say ‘certainly’?) they believed what he had fed them in his propaganda leaflets before the March 2013 election – with stories of active participation in the Legion of Mary at the Gzira and Sliema parishes as well as about his being a ‘devoted family man’.
Obviously, nothing sinister or unseemly in the long years before (however true) found its way into those leaflets. But, there you are.
Does anyone recall this explosion?
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140818/local/mqabba-explosion-causes-alarm.532345
This explosion happened without anyone being notified.
In my opinion this was another cover up.
So Dr. Mallia is registered as living in Gozo. So he could not vote for himself as the voting document is registered according to residence.