Coming up soon: the real story of the Löwenbräu land, and how the government is protecting John Dalli and Marsovin

Watch this space – my report will be up later this morning, including a letter from John Dalli, then Minister for Economic Services, instructing the Commissioner for Lands directly to hand the land over to Marsovin in perpetuity for an annual ground rent. Nineteen years later, Marsovin sold it to Vassallo Builders for €8 million.

Vassallo Builders never dealt with the government at any point but only with Marsovin. John Dalli served as an unofficial consultant to Marsovin at various points over the years, and was its chairman between 2004 and 2008 when he had been forced to resign from the cabinet of government over corruption accusations in the purchase of air tickets for his ministry from his daughter’s – for which read, his – travel agency.