This letter confirms that Adrian Delia’s ‘rent’ client was Eucharist Bajada senior

Adrian Delia is making a lot of fuss about not being allowed to say who the client was who used Mr Delia’s offshore bank account at Barclays International in Jersey to channel ‘rent’. Then he gave the game away in his interview with David Thake, saying that when the story was broken “I rang my client, who lives abroad. He’s an older man, a lot older than me” – as though this is somehow relevant – “in fact his son is my age and I know him, so I rang the son.” He’s talking here about Eucharist Bajada Senior and Junior.

This letter below confirms that Mr Delia’s client was indeed Eucharist Bajada Senior. The Maltese lawyer who writes to Mr Delia here says that he acts for Emanuel Bajada, but the subject line says: BAJADA – BAJADA. This means Mr Delia was acting for the other Bajada brother, Eucharist, and that the Marshall Islands/Bahamas-incorporated companies belonged to Eucharist Bajada and possibly also Emanuel Bajada.

The ‘rent’ from the London flats in the prostitution racket was paid directly into Adrian Delia’s PERSONAL bank account at Barclays International in Jersey. He was then meant to pay it out again to the bank accounts held by two offshore companies incorporated in the Marshall Islands and the Bahamas, AAS Freight Services Ltd and Healey Properties Ltd.

If the money were legal and above-board, the Bajada brothers would have paid it straight into their own regular bank accounts, or at a push, the bank accounts linked to their offshore companies. But instead THEY THEMSELVES paid it into Adrian Delia’s Jersey account and asked him to pay it out again to their offshore company accounts.

In money-laundering, this is called ‘layering’. And it constitutes money-laundering even if the money had come from standard, regular rent (which it did not) and not prostitution.

What Adrian Delia did there is a serious crime. Helping your clients to ‘layer’ money that is not declared to the authorities is money-laundering in and of itself. That the money comes from prostitution is a separate crime.

Go ahead, Mr Delia, continue making a fool of yourself by filing a sixth libel suit tomorrow morning. But you know, just as I know, what every lawyer and accountant reading this is thinking: classic money-laundering. The admiration of thugs like Il-Mackay, Il-Hajta and L-Iswed is not going to save you from the scorn of your peers.