Identity Malta’s executive chairman sits on board of John Dalli/Alfred Mifsud company

Joe Vella Bonnici, executive chairman of Identity Malta and responsible for the administration of the sale of citizenship programme – he sits alongside Claire Gauci Borda on the board of a company owned by her father John Dalli and by Alfred Mifsud, deputy governor of the Central Bank.

The board of directors of Crystal Finance

Joe Vella Bonnici, the failed Labour Party general election candidate who was made executive chairman of Identity Malta and put in charge of the sale-of-citizenship programme, sits on the board of directors of Crystal Finance, alongside John Dalli’s daughter Claire Gauci Borda.

Crystal Finance is owned by disgraced former European Commissioner John Dalli and Alfred Mifsud, newly appointed deputy governor of the Central Bank of Malta. The remainder of the shareholding is Eric ‘Taghna Lkoll’ Schembri’s.

Dalli and Mifsud are fronted/represented on the board of directors by their children: Mifsud’s two sons by his wife (he had a subsequent set of children by his girlfriend, the former Tumas Group chambermaid and current Malta Investment Management Company Ltd director Anna Zelbst) and Dalli’s daughter Claire Gauci Borda.

Gauci Borda is currently in the eye of the storm as the person who, through her father’s company Corporate Group Ltd, which she fronts with her sister Louisa Dalli, received the funds from American investors which subsequently disappeared without trace.

She also booked the villa in the Bahamas where fraudsters Mary Swan and Mel Tari stayed with her father in the summer of 2012.