John Dalli’s daughter on police bail; barred from leaving Malta – big story in The Malta Independent on Sunday

UPDATED at 10am: The story is now on line.

It’s not on line yet, but there’s a big story on the front page of The Malta Independent on Sunday’s print edition.

One of John Dalli’s daughters, Claire Gauci Borda, is out on police bail and has been barred from leaving the country, while investigations are ongoing into the scams she ran through John Dalli & Associates and Corporate Group Ltd, two companies registered at her father’s office address at Portomaso, but for which she and her sister Louisa Dalli appear as shareholders and directors.

The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is working on the case in tandem with the Malta Police.

The scams were perpetrated in league with the international long-time fraudster Marie Eloise Corbin aka Lady Bird or Mary Swan, a U. S. citizen.

I am proud that this “gossip blog” run by the “bile queen of Malta” and “self-styled journalist who nobody reads” was instrumental in bringing this case to action, just as in the case involving corrupt Police Inspector Daniel Zammit and his business involvement with Joe Gaffarena while prosecuting his son-in-law.

This website first brought the matter of the Dalli scams to public attention more than two years ago and has kept at it with regular updates ever since, having also identified the presence of Mary Swan in Malta, her real name, and her address in Sliema’s High Street.

When I first broke the story, it seemed so wild, outrageous and ‘out there’ that it appeared to some to be fiction. An international mystery woman, a former European Commissioner, a flat in Sliema in which elderly fraudsters masquerading as ‘Christians’ pretended to run gold mines in south-east Asia and give the money to charity, while defrauding people out of millions of dollars wired through HSBC Bank in St Julian’s, to a company run by the former European Commissioner’s daughter? Come on.

It was also this website which first published scans of the false passports and identity documents used by Marie Eloise Corbin and her associate Charles Jackson, photographs of John Dalli in the Bahamas with his other daughter Louisa, Corbin and another notorious ‘Christian’ fraudster.

It was this website which broke the news, with photographs and a video, of the police raiding Marie Eloise Corbin’s flat in Sliema’s High Street, and also published photographs of her permanent departure from that flat some weeks later, with a large removals van. And it was this website with which a group of U.S. citizens who have been cheated out of their money and their retirement funds first got in touch earlier this year.

The only reason action wasn’t taken before now is clearly because puppet Police Commissioner Peter Paul Zammit and corrupt acting Police Commissioner Ray Zammit protected the Dallis and didn’t want to touch them, and both – as the entire country famously knows – took direction from Police Minister Manuel Mallia.

Read the full story in The Malta Independent on Sunday.