UPDATED/Corrupt police officer in business with Ugo Chetcuti and John Dalli canvasser; owns shares in Steam nude club operator

Corrupt police inspector Daniel Zammit, whose corrupt father Ray Zammit was appointed acting Commissioner of Police by his cousin the Police Minister Manuel Mallia last year, has been in business with Paceville operator Ugo (now named Hugo after his restaurant and one of his sons) Chetcuti for almost five years at least.

Zammit owns a third of the shareholding in Diabolik Entertainment Ltd, which was incorporated in December 2010. The other shareholders are Luke Chetcuti and Stephen Bonnici. Each of the shareholders holds an equal number of shares: 400.

News of Zammit’s involvement in this company was broken by The Malta Independent on Sunday, today.

Now I can report that Luke Chetcuti, whose registered address in the company documents is Villa Isis in Madliena, is in fact Ugo aka Hugo Chetcuti’s son. When Diabolik Entertainment Ltd was incorporated and he was made a shareholder and director (the other director is Stephen Bonnici), he was just 19.

UPDATE/Stephen Bonnici owns Anchor Bay Leisures Ltd, which operates Popeye Village, and Bongal Ltd, which is registered at Park Lane Aparthotel in St Paul’s Bay. His father, with whom he is involved in business, is Emanuel aka Leli Bonnici of the Hal Qormi family called Taz-Zebbugi. Stephen and his father Leli were disgraced former European Commissioner John Dalli’s chief electoral canvassers for many years, and Bonnici acquired the Anchor Bay outfit under Dalli’s watch.

Diabolik Entertainment Ltd operates the nude/lapdancing/poledancing club called Steam, in Paceville.

A police inspector, son of an acting Commissioner of Police, owning shares in a lapdancing club with an operator of the nature of Hugo Chetcuti (or his 19-year-old son…) – it beggars belief.

Daniel Zammit paid the bank deposit required for companies in formation, and the deposit slip is in his name: Diabolik Entertainment Ltd company in formation deposit slip C_51442_D0_1

To make matters even worse, the company was registered at incorporation to his ex-wife’s (lawyer Gaby Buttigieg, then Gabrielle Zammit) office address at Charles Court in Msida, and is still officially registered there today. Daniel Zammit’s then wife was company secretary until her resignation in 2012, when their marriage broke down.

Diabolik Entertainment Ltd has never filed any accounts as required by law with the Malta Financial Services Authority.

I have to make another point here: it’s not only the police inspector who is corrupt, but those who set up in business with him knowing full well that it is against the law for a police officer to be in business without the express permission, in writing, of the Commissioner of Police.

For a wide variety of reasons, I can’t see John Rizzo giving one of his inspectors permission to go into business with Ugo Chetcuti of all people, and particularly not for a sex club.

The individuals who set up companies with Daniel Zammit did not do so because of his business acumen, or the particular gifts he brought to the table, but because they needed his insider information and contacts with the police.

They brought him in because they needed a police inspector on the inside. What they will do with him now that he is no longer in the police force is anyone’s guess. He’s about to discover that he’s not such a useful tool anymore and that corrupt businessmen are not going to be paying him now in the way they paid him before.

Which brings me to the shares themselves. Whether Daniel Zammit bought his way in to those companies or was given the shares by the others, this constitutes bribery and corruption whichever way you look at it. It is not only Daniel Zammit who should be investigated and prosecuted, but those who set up in business with him for the sole purpose of having a well-placed stooge in the police force.