Is the Police Minister dealing in drugs?
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December 7, 2014 at 11:59pm
I think at this stage it is a legitimate and obvious question that must be asked.
Incidentally, the Police Minister was meant to be at Albano’s concert at the Mediterranean Conference Centre, with Victor Gruppetta, tonight. Is he actually there?
With which driver have the children been dumped, and where might Codruta Cristian be – with the Police Minister or also with a driver?
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I would like to preempt Joseph Muscat and Manuel Mallia’s possible last resort here.
This was not a sting operation.
Would you surprised with all the rubbish that Joseph collected in his skip?
Normally they say “birds of a feather flock together”. So in this case your deduction would be very legitimate.
Highly plausible, considering he also had €500,000 in cash stashed away at home.
And considering that the explanation he gave – that he had recently sold a property – was a lie.
Not only was it a lie, but it was a ridiculous statement. Compulsive liars get worse as time goes by and reach a point where they disconnect from reality.
He should have resigned and been investigated at that point. That, for me, was more serious than this shooting incident.
No, that time at least he was not lying; he was using lawyers’ jargon.
Remember he said,”he had sold some *PROPERTY”.
Everybody thought he meant real estate until a check at the Land Registry showed no such transactions had taken place.
Then nothing more was said about it.
One does not accumulate half a million euros by selling peanuts, baubles or what can be easily bought at Lidl.
Now, that is something to be investigated and worked out.
What made him go into politics in the first place?
Not greed or power.
That blokka silg was very heavy to have required the whole Micallef family, the minister, the driver u x-xufier l-iehor, u l-iehor Skocciz, to carry it.
How much cocaine is worth €500,000 ?
a mattress of it…you know
Are we going to split hairs on whether he should style himself as Don Manwel or Baron Emmanuel?
I think so. Being such a well known “qammiel” type, he’d probably consider it a waste of possible cash to destroy seized drugs.
At this point I would like to quote this:
“doamna dnu emanuel mallia e un hot un mincinos eu am fost ultima dadaca si nam mai putut rezista”
She did tell us and some of us already knew it.
X’inhuma kwieti iNews Malta.
Mhux soltu, eh?
Joseph Muscat scored the biggest auto goal against his own government with his dismal and deceitful handling of this fiasco.
It shows how brainless he really is (all we’re seeing is a by-product of ignorance).
Had Muscat had the slightest bit of intelligence, he would have asked for Mallia’s resignation and moved on.
He can’t. If he does, he becomes the target.
Is Morrison Smith still around or did he vanish into thin air?
http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/11/has-steven-morrison-smith-absconded/
Did Smith testify in any of the two inquests? If he did not, then there can be no doubt that there is an even worse scenario.
Plan A was the cover-up.
Plan B was to let the story die down.
Plan C was to shift responsibility onto the Leader of the Opposition.
Plan D was to use the three ex-judges’ inquiry to exonerate Manuel Mallia.
I predict that Plan E is going to be this:
The Prime Minister is going to use the ex-judges’ inquiry to sack Manuel Mallia. But make no mistake about it, the Prime Minister is not going to fire the minister because he believes that it is the right thing to do but because it is the least damaging option to his government.
If the prime minister lets this go on to a vote of no-confidence in parliament, he’s going to put his own MPs (those with some dignity and brains, anyway) in the impossible situation of wanting to vote with the government to serve their prime minister, and look like asses in the process, and wanting to vote with the opposition to serve their electors and save their skin, but at the same time end up looking like traitors in the ilk of Franco Debono.
If the Prime Minister lets this saga go on to a vote in parliament, it’s going to be the beginning of the end for Joseph Muscat.
Tghid Muscat bhal Sant? Wara sentejn fil-gvern sploda kollox?
I disagree.
The Opposition look like they’ve already run out of steam. Keeping up the pressure on anything is not something they’re used to (they’re still radiating feel-good messages like they’re in government). So we must assume there won’t be any more revelations.
The inquiry will find “serious cause for concern”, but nothing too specific. I’m ready to wager a bottle of Veuve Clicquot that these will be the exact words.
Muscat will declare that he will do the right thing, and call a vote of confidence in Mallia (not no confidence) in parliament.
The vote will go through, perhaps with Marlene Farrugia abstaining.
And Mallia will keep his post. The government will carry on.
[Daphne – You’re wrong already. It’s been announced that there will be more phone-calls today. The flaw in your analysis is that you have failed to factor in the shift in public opinion.]
There would have to be a major shift in parliamentary opinion for anything to change.
[Daphne – No, political shifts begin with significant shifts in public opinion. Once that happens, nothing any government can do will stop the inevitable, however fast or slow that is.]
If Muscat dumps Mallia now, the story will, with a bit of luck, be crushed under a ton of mistletoe and goodwill.
If he lets this saga drag on, this nightmare is going to haunt him well into the new year.
At this point, even Muscat realises that Mallia is more trouble than he’s worth. It has been two whole years of one blunder after another.
The issues now are whether Mallia has some hold on Muscat and whether Muscat’s belligerent personality will be able to accept the fact that, on this point, the opposition and the media have won and he has lost, and Mallia is too far gone to save.
Why only the Police Minister?
Don’t forget Kasco’s involvement with Ryan and the “meat from Brazil.”
One question …how come no one is banging on the victim’s door too? There is too much silence from this chap.
[Daphne – What makes you think no one has been? Everybody’s been ringing him and he’s been refusing to speak.]
Let’s not forget that Smith asked for Minister Mallia as his lawyer (or was it?) while under arrest.
[Daphne – It is now obvious that he didn’t ask for him as a lawyer. He asked for him for other reasons.]
It being a calm night and him needing a bit of fresh air, he decided to walk over to the Mediterranean Conference Centre for a spot of Albano.
Either way the Scotsman’s been got at.
[Daphne – Stop calling him the Scotsman. His name is Stephen Smith and he is NOT a Scotsman. Even if he were, in the civilized world we don’t speak about ‘the Italian’, ‘the Spaniard’, ‘the Libyan’ and ‘the Greek’.]
So “Scotsman” might be another euphemism like “godfather” and “Un pezzo da novanta” in Mafia parlance.
I think something big was going involving all of them and when things ran out of control there was the chase then the shooting.
Afterwards they involved the police make it seem it started all with an accident.
I have no doubt that Mallia is dirty. He declared 500,000 euros in cash at home.
When reporters questioned how he got so much money, he replied that it was from the sale of a real estate property. But when this website commissioned a notary to search, it was discovered that Manuel Mallia sold nothing.
This man stinks. This man is hurting Muscat, MLP and most of all the country.
I am no farmer but can smell the stench of manure.
in a way it is very simple to resolve the enigma of the income from a sale of property to the tune of €500,000.
If I had to do the same and did not declare it as the deal may be concluded Mafia-style, and if somebody exposes this deal to the authorities, I for sure, will be hounded by the Income Tax Department.
Now, did Manuel Mallia pay his dues from this sale? What sort of income tax did he pay?
If I was Smith I would have fled the country or tried to at least.
Though I think some restrictions were placed on him by the police.
At this rate their might be hidden or not so hidden links with other recent criminal activity like with the Kugin ta’ Kieth tal-Kasco affair.
We need some answers please.
Where is Mr Smith?
Where is our Prime Minister?
What are journalists waiting for to fire these questions?
Il -gvern ta’ Muscat ghandu ma xebax ihammar wicc Malta mad-dinja civilizzata.
Keith Kasco Schembri must be thanking his lucky stars that he can lay low again, and continue with his ‘business’ outside of the spotlight, given that they are focused elsewhere.
If the Minister is dealing in drugs then why create a situation in which this could be exposed?
If the Minister really was with Sheehan at the time of the call, then one would assume that Sheehan would have acted on his boss’s instructions, and would his boss have reasonably requested the services of the Rapid Intervention Unit?
I think that Sheehan was taking the decisions and I also think that he invented the bit about the Minister being in the car just to justify the importance of RIU coming to stop Smith’s car.
Sant almenu steha w wara sentejn ghamel elezzjoni. Muscat berawt rahli, nahseb jibqa ggranfat mal-poter sa l-ahhar.
By the way, do you remember another earlier post that spoke about a prominent Labour MP trying to pay for a 20-euro flower pot by presenting a 500 euro bank note? That too was not heard of again.
Kasco Keith seems very invisible in this whole saga, at least to date. I wonder, I wonder …..
Nothing is new under the hood of the sun.
In the previous Labour administration we had the Prime Minister`s secretary dealing in drugs, as a baron I mean, that was the proof I had.
When I proceeded to his arrest at the Auberge de Castille I was called by the Police Commissioner to desist, revert to Headquarters under orders.
The Commissioner did not want to hear my verbal report and ordered me to report to CID superintendent. I did.
He and three sergeants reverted to a house in Gzira where they seized a steel cabinet full of drugs. Full stop fresh line. The same full stop fresh line I had when I solved a case of corruption in the issue of trading licences in which the Minister was involved directly with proven evidence.
I was ordered off the case. In the long run I was awarded a blast of a bomb at the door of my home.