How hard could it have been for Malta Enterprise chief Mario Vella and Prime Minister Muscat to do the same thing?
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October 3, 2013 at 11:14am
Information on their friend and consultant Shiv Nair has been right there on the internet, all along. You just have to know where to look.
But my suspicion is not so much that they didn’t know, but that they didn’t WANT to know. My mind shrinks from the possibility that they might have known all along and didn’t give a damn.
Please look at the list of information I have posted below. I would be more than happy if other journalists were to use this as a resource. I don’t mind at all. I would much rather cooperate on a story for the facts to emerge, than have the facts concealed because some people prefer to compete with the story being sacrificed as a consequence of that.
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http://www.ccdni.com/director-pradip-nair
PRADIP NAIR worked in company CONSULTANTS FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT LIMITED as PROJECT MANAGER.
PRADIP NAIR was born in 1961
Country: GEORGIA
Posttown: TBILISI
Postcode: FOREIGN
http://www.ccdni.com/director-pradeep-shivshanker-nair
PRADEEP SHIVSHANKER NAIR worked in company CONSULTANTS FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT LIMITED.
PRADEEP SHIVSHANKER NAIR was born in 1961
Posttown: LONDON
Postcode: W11 4UT
http://www.companydirectorcheck.com/pradip-nair
List of companies owned by Pradip Nair. Free company director check. Pradip Nair worked in company CONSULTANTS FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT LIMITED as Project manager.
PRADIP NAIR
Born: 1961
Nationality: INDIAN
Country: GEORGIA
Posttown: TBILISI
Postcode: FOREIGN
http://www.companydirectorcheck.com/pradeep-shivshanker-nair-2
List of companies owned by Pradeep Shivshanker Nair. Free company director check. Pradeep Shivshanker Nair worked in company CONSULTANTS FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT LIMITED as Consultant.
PRADEEP SHIVSHANKER NAIR
Born: 1961
Nationality: BRITISH
Posttown: LONDON
Postcode: W11 4UT
http://www.companydirectorcheck.com/shiv-preyan-shanker-nair
List of companies owned by Shiv Preyan Shanker Nair. Free company director check. Shiv Preyan Shanker Nair holds currently this position: Director (COMPANY DIRECTOR) in company BURMAH OIL COMPANY LIMITED. He/she has been a Director (COMPANY DIRECTOR) of BURMAH OIL COMPANY LIMITED for 27 months.
MR SHIV PREYAN SHANKER NAIR
Born: 1961
Nationality: BRITISH
Country: UK
Posttown: LONDON
Postcode: W11 4UT
Country of residence: MALTA
http://www.companydirectorcheck.com/pradeep-shivshanker-nair
List of companies owned by Pradeep Shivshanker Nair. Free company director check. Pradeep Shivshanker Nair worked in company CONSULTANTS FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT LIMITED.
PRADEEP SHIVSHANKER NAIR
Born: 1961
Nationality: BRITISH
Posttown: LONDON
Postcode: W11 4UT
http://www.companydirectorcheck.com/shiv-shankaran-nair
List of companies owned by Shiv Shankaran Nair. Free company director check. Shiv Shankaran Nair worked in company THE BRITISH NORTH BORNEO COMPANY LTD as Co. director.
SHIV SHANKARAN NAIR
Born: 1961
Nationality: BRITISH
Country: NIGERIA
Posttown: PORT HARCOURT
Postcode: PH 16 4LL
Country of residence: NIGERIA
http://companycheck.co.uk/director/916203518
SHIV PREYAN SHANKER NAIR
135 Holland Park Avenue, London, Uk, W11 4UT
Registered Details
Short name Shiv Nair
Year of Birth: 1961
Director ID: 916203518
Year of Birth: 1961
Director ID: 916203518
Registered Address
135 Holland Park Avenue
London
Uk
W11 4UT
http://companycheck.co.uk/company/06208775
BURMAH OIL COMPANY LIMITED
135 Holland Park Avenue, London, W11 4UT
http://www.companieslist.co.uk/07223762-the-british-north-borneo-company-ltd
THE BRITISH NORTH BORNEO COMPANY LTD
Learn more about THE BRITISH NORTH BORNEO COMPANY LTD. Check company details for free and view Companies House information, company documents and list of directors.
Company details
135 HOLLAND PARK AVENUE, LONDON, LONDON, ENGLAND, W11 4UT
https://www.duedil.com/company/07223762/the-british-north-borneo-company-ltd
The British North Borneo Company Ltd
Registered Address:
135 Holland Park Avenue
London
London
W11 4UT
United Kingdom
Trading Address:
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135 Holland Park Avenue
London
W11 4UT
http://www.dellam.com/06208775-BURMAH%20OIL%20COMPANY%20LIMITED
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/en/newsdetails/news/national/Three-bids-for-Labour-s-promise-20130930
Quite, Daphne. The rest of us would definitely be ‘more than happy’ if some decent journalists pounced on this, and started sticking microphones into the appropriate faces and front-paging the whole sordid affair.
What do you think of this tiny little bit of detail, Privitera and the rest of the rabid MLP defenders?
Privitera, like Tyrell of Country Antrim, exists for the amusement of the masses, so I wouldn’t hold out too much hope or expectation there.
Reporters, on the other hand, could sink their teeth into this story. It’d make a pleasant change from mindless press calls and routine press releases.
http://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/director/932630/shiv-nair
I’ve found one mention of his registration at Portomaso: as the address of his company, British North Borneo.
http://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/director/932630/shiv-nair
SHIV SHANKARAN NAIR
HE BRITISH NORTH BORNEO COMPANY LTD – Shiv Nair
Address
22/62 PORTOMASO
ST.JULIANS
MALTA
VLT O8
BLOKK 22 FLAT NRU.62 VJAL PORTOMASO PACEVILLE, SAN GILJAN STJ 4017
Does VLT O8 look sexier than STJ 4017?
The Portomaso address is listed as the personal address of the company’s director.
The Valletta address is the company’s official registered address.
What is John Dalli’s Portomaso address?
61 Blk 24
Shiva Shankaran, another alias of Shiv Nair.
http://opencorporates.com/officers/43328951
Work is difficult for Mario Vella. He is capable of spending years in an empty room.
Shiv Nair’s businesses:
1) British Borneo Oil and Gas
2) British Borneo Energy
3) Data Security Ltd
4) Premium Borneo Comms Ltd.
Oil, gas, data and telecoms – they’ve got it covered.
It feels as if Malta is going back to the 80s.
Dear Daphne, your work is remarkable, and your findings are very worrying.
Our journalists are missing the wood for the trees and you, single-handedly, are reporting and carrying amazing stories with exceptional depth.
I hope that NET TV picks this one up, and the newspapers too.
Obfuscation appears to be the order of the day with these guys. No wonder Keith tal-Kasco was confused.
Who is the other Nair, billed as “Chairman Emeritus” of British North Borneo Company Ltd.? Are there actually two Nairs?
Also, isn’t it odd that this corporation refers to itself as the “successor” to the British North Borneo Company, the Victorian-era corporation that was charged with administering what is now Sabah, Malaysia in the 1880s but was dissolved in 1964?
Meanwhile, its Maltese affiliate, British Borneo Oil and Gas Ltd., proudly displays the Certificate of Incorporation of British Borneo Petroleum Syndicate Limited, a corporation that was formed on May 4, 1912 and dissolved on March 15, 2010 after two name changes. It refers to the original company as its “namesake”, even though there is no evidence of common ownership or management with the original company.
Clearly Mr Nair calculated (perhaps correctly) that a company with a blatantly manufactured history would flourish in a tiny Mediterranean country governed by chavs who value bling-bling above all else, and whose current style of governance is “tad-daqqa w imxi”.
See: http://www.borneoholdings.com/pages/management_team/
http://www.borneoholdings.com/pages/aboutus/
http://www.borneoholdings.com/pages/company-borneo-oil/
‘Scatole Cinesi’.
Nair’s operations are outside Malta. Malta and Malta’s Prime Minister in particular, are just convenient tools.
Venditori di tappeti.
How is it that after all this time, loads of newspapers and tv stations, university courses to boot, etc etc, we still do not have any decent investigative journalists.
All they do is reprint press releases which they get given. And then they wonder why the public has no respect for journalists.
Shiv Shankaran Nair MBA (SBS), FCIM, FIE, MRIIA, Group Managing Director of The British North Borneo Company Limited:
With an MBA in Political Risk from the Scottish Business School, Mr. Nair has spent his entire career, working with Governments in Africa, CIS and Latin America. In 1996, he was appointed the first foreign advisor in the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan, a role that was replicated subsequently in several of the CIS countries.
Mr. Nair has specialized in working with the China Africa Development Fund and Chinese Exim Bank, advising countries on tapping into Chinese infrastructure Financing. Among the projects he has been involved in are The Chinese loans to Ecuador, The Ghana Rail Rehabilitation Facility, The South Sudan Facility for Dams on the Nile and the South Sudan-Uganda Railway Lines. He has been so successful on behalf of his Chinese clients, that The Economist magazine once dubbed him .
Among his past and present advisory positions are Political Advisor to The President of Kalmykia, Advisor on International Finance to The Deputy Prime Minister of Somalia, Advisor on Debt Restructuring to The Prime Minister of Grenada, Advisor on International Finance to The Minister of Energy, S Sudan, Advisor on Debt Financing to The Governor of The Central Bank of The Maldives. Advisor on International Energy Acquisitions, Poly Energy China. Project Advisor to CAMCE, CCECC, Sinopec, China Railways, CETC, China Shipbuilding and Sinoma.
Mr. Nair has private interests in oil exploration, mining, agriculture and logistics. He was the co-founder of The British Caucasian Insurance Company in Georgia, which was subsequently sold to The Bank of Georgia, and is presently the co-founder of The British American Insurance Company in S.Sudan
For some reason the piece hereunder is not showing in my comment above:
Mr. Nair has specialized in working with the China Africa Development Fund and Chinese Exim Bank, advising countries on tapping into Chinese infrastructure Financing.
Among the projects he has been involved in are The Chinese loans to Ecuador, The Ghana Rail Rehabilitation Facility, The South Sudan Facility for Dams on the Nile and the South Sudan-Uganda Railway Lines.
He has been so successful on behalf of his Chinese clients, that The Economist magazine once dubbed him.
Among his past and present advisory positions are Political Advisor to The President of Kalmykia, Advisor on International Finance to The Deputy Prime Minister of Somalia, Advisor on Debt Restructuring to The Prime Minister of Grenada, Advisor on International Finance to The Minister of Energy, S Sudan, Advisor on Debt Financing to The Governor of The Central Bank of The Maldives.
Advisor on International Energy Acquisitions, Poly Energy China. Project Advisor to CAMCE, CCECC, Sinopec, China Railways, CETC, China Shipbuilding and Sinoma.
Mr. Nair has private interests in oil exploration, mining, agriculture and logistics. He was the co-founder of The British Caucasian Insurance Company in Georgia, which was subsequently sold to The Bank of Georgia, and is presently the co-founder of The British American Insurance Company in S.Sudan
There you go, ‘debt restructuring’ in Somalia, South Sudan, Grenada, the Maldives and Georgia.
Yeah right, places where every other month, conflict erupts, governments overturned or warlords ruled for the last two decades. Coincidentally places which suffered ‘Western Imperialism’.
Set up am insurance company to bail out central banks, money no issue, just don’t ask, impose ‘projects’ to get into the central banks’ boards in no uncertain terms and carry on with the tension to keep the whole country in tow.
China’s secret weapon, yes, the coloniser with bags of cash and more companies than names.
Nice one Alex.
Does Kalmykia even exist?
Kalmykia is a Russian Republic.
Jozef, Kalmykia is a federal subject of Russia (a republic). Population: 289,481 (2010 Census). It is the only Buddhist region in Europe. It has become well known as an international center for chess because its former President, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, is the head of the International Chess Federation (FIDE).
I wonder if some of his clients were the ones who wanted to transfer millions of dollars to the Bahamas for charitable purposes for the people of Africa. In any case these kind people seem to have had a change of heart – pity.
Shiv Nair and his companies are also courted by service providers in Malta: lawyers, accountants and auditors with MFSA licences or professional warrants, who are subject to money laundering legislation.
This means that they have an obligation to carry out ‘know your client’ procedures. How such a person can fall through their procedural checks is beyond me, particularly when we seem to be talking about a relatively high profile person with political connections in certain jurisdictions, who uses multiple variations of his name, who has been blacklisted permanently by the World Bank for fraud and corruption, and about whom information is freely available on the internet.
The FIAU as well as the Inland Revenue should be keeping their eyes glued on this person and his companies.
A closer look may also need to be taken at the professionals who are servicing him, ensuring that they are fulfilling their obligations given that no professional worth his salt should have ever shaken the hand of a person blacklisted by the World Bank.
And how could I ever forget the banks, who are charged with receiving, holding and paying funds on behalf of these companies?
Hear, Hear! This is where the Media should be sniffing away.
Why is there an aura of fear hanging over the whole matter?
Which legal firm is involved in handling Nair’s affairs?