Indeed. Let’s recap Malta’s economy: dirty foreign money financing illegal Maltese real estate.

Sort of puts some oomph into my guest post.

Bank of Valletta must be holding onto more than 60 million in Gaddafi money. That’s just the sum associated with Mutassim.

He was one of five siblings (six, if you count his half brother) and was not the only one who visited Bank of Valletta. Then there was his father, too.

Spain before the crisis magnified.

It’s not that the FIAU didn’t know about it or chose to ignore it. They knew about it way back before 2013.

But the government had a choice between the collapse of the economy, and humouring Gaddafi and his Maltese accountants. So they humoured Gaddafi.

Had Malta really supported the revolution in 2011, as the biographies would have it, then maybe it could have negotiated a deal to avoid this lawsuit.

But whatever negotiation it enters into now, it will be doing so from a position of weakness.

Our foolish foreign policy has come to bite us in the behind.

It’s no wonder Mater Dei Hospital has turned into Libya’s casualty station, and no questions asked.

Yes, running a government is a complicated business, but it helps to be have people running it who can think in complex ways.

They’ve been quite patient and this story was bursting at the seams.

No wonder all the recent high alerts in the news.

Very interesting that they can’t find a buyer. So much for Muscat’s global standing.