Drug smuggler Bastjan Dalli owes the Bank of Valletta €5 million

Sebastian k/a Bastjan Dalli, a drug smuggler, Naples Camorra contact and brother to disgraced former European Commissioner John Dalli

Drug smuggler and Malta contact for the Naples Camorra, Sebastian k/a Bastjan Dalli, who is a brother of the disgraced former European Commissioner John Dalli, owes the Bank of Valletta almost €5 million in debts unpaid since the year 2000.

The money is owed by his companies Mixer Ltd and Mixer Concrete Works Ltd, of which he is the sole owner.

On the 9th of this month, the bank obtained a court order preventing him from selling, transferring or otherwise disposing of his concrete batching plant and the extensive tract of land on which it is situated in Ta’ San Martin near Haz-Zebbug.

This was published in the Government Gazette some days ago.

The Bank of Valletta had sued for its money and obtained judgement in its favour in 2006.

The batching plant and land were put up for auction in 2007 and John Dalli ‘bought’ them for around €3.5 million through an emissary, Neville Spiteri, he sent to represent him at the judicial auction. Spiteri is now living in exile in Italy, having left Malta because of a mountain of property-related business debts. Representation by an emissary at a judicial auction is against the law, so another bidder (Joe Gaffarena, as it happens) challenged the bid in court and a final ruling – in John Dalli’s favour, by corrupt judge Lino Farrugia Sacco – was given only four years later, in 2011.

Dalli was given a short period in which to come up with the circa €3.5 million and that was the last we heard of it until now.

He clearly didn’t come up with the dosh, because his brother still owes the bank €5 million and still owns the batching plant and the land.