Exclusive: the first publicly available photograph of Muscat’s World-Bank-blacklisted China/energy/FDI consultant
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October 6, 2013 at 10:25pm
A member of my international worldwide network of spies and researchers has managed to track down what must be the only photograph on the internet of Shiv Nair, the consultant to Joseph Muscat, Konrad Mizzi and Malta Enterprise, who has been debarred permanently by the World Bank for fraud and corruption.
Now you can all put a face to the name.
He’s the one in the black shirt.
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Evidently, he is also a member of the secret service. He is the only one in the picture who has shaved off his mustache..
They were all participating in a Toni Abela lookalike competition … talking of whom, what’s become of him?
Joseph Muscat must have found him … charming.
Not quite David Cameron but at least he’s in Malta and finds Muscat useful.
Maybe someone else can send in a picture of this man’s parents. One of the many companies they hide behind was also blacklisted by the World Bank.
Click on the company diectors and board members tab at http://www.companieslist.co.uk/03089581-lonestar-supplies-and-logistics-pvt-ltd
Pradip Nair, supposedly of Georgia, also known as Shiv Nair, Shiv Preyan Shanker Nair, Shiv Shankaran Nair, Pradeep S Nair, etc., is consultant to Joseph Muscat, Prime Minister of Malta, and on retainer as a consultant to Malta Enterprise, after having been permanently debarred by the World Bank for fraud and corruption.
Shivshanker Pre Nair and Indira Nair are his parents.
Lonestar Supplies and Logistics (PVT) Ltd., a Nair company, formerly known as International Project Managers plc and, before that, as Amani BP Ltd., was also debarred by the World Bank for fraud at the same time as the Nairs were permanently debarred. See http://web.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=64148989&piPK=64148984&theSitePK=84266&theSitePK=84266&contentMDK=64069844&querycontentMDK=64069700&sup_name=AMANI&supp_country=
The Nair pictured here used two separate aliases and two different addresses, listing himself as two ostensibly different people as diectors/ board members of Consultants for International Development Ltd, yet another Nair company permanently debarred by the World Bank for fraud and corruption. See http://web.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=64148989&piPK=64148984&theSitePK=84266&theSitePK=84266&contentMDK=64069844&querycontentMDK=64069700&sup_name=CONSULTANTS%20FOR%20INTERNATIONAL%20DEVELOPMENT&supp_country=GB and click on the directors / board members tab at http://www.companieslist.co.uk/02588111-consultants-for-international-development-limited
Muscat’s consultant, identified by Sunesh Nair on his Facebook album: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4266670178646&set=pb.1042776549.-2207520000.1381098220.&type=3&theater
I mentioned this to a PL supporter. The reply was “Maybe he has reformed.” The stupidity of some people is unbelievable.
[Daphne – Whether he has reformed or not is irrelevant. He remains on the World Bank blacklist, and that’s bad news for Malta’s reputation because he is Malta’s envoy/consultant.]
Shiv Nair is in his early 50s. He was around 40 when he was blacklisted by the World Bank.
His fraudulent activity, which led to his being debarred, included presenting himself on company records as two different people.
He hasn’t lost that habit, as evidenced by his recent claim that he lives with his family at 135 Holland Park Avenue, London W11 4UT, United Kingdom, when he and his wife Oksana live in Malta and their children are at school here.
What is Nair’s relationship to Patricia Hills, London Executive Assistant to Edward de Bono, who is registered at the same address as Pradeep Prenyan Shivshankar Nair’s UK registered businesses at 135 (b), Holland Park Avenue, whilst her husband Richard Hills is listed with “Shiv Shankor” at 135(a), Holland Park Avenue?
Is the Malta connection pure coincidence?
This is out of subject but is worth an observation
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20131005/local/police-find-secret-tunnel.489091#.UlHTUSjBX5E
Why on earth did the police raid the garage in Swieqi, from which a tunnel was being dug, while the perpetrators were not at work? Couldn’t they keep the vault nearly empty and a good lookout on the garage entrance?
I suspect someone wanted to divert the Sunday papers public’s attention from the political scandals which are mushrooming by the dozen. The uncovering of this secret tunnel will get no one pinned.
I’m convinced that these smart criminals did not leave a trace of their identity while using the garage. One doesn’t dig a tunnel from his garage to rob a bank and expect not to be arrested within a few minutes.
I’d better not share my second suspicion.
Go on.. share it?
It was Edward Scicluna. He needs some extra funds to balance the budget
Isn’t it obvious that the police didn’t raid it while the perps were inside either because: a) the perps were tipped off, or b) the police are in cahoots with them.
Either way it’s bad news.
Are the police so stupid as to investigate for weeks and then wait to raid it when no-one is inside?
Remember SNC Lavalin, the construction firm, with its fingers deep in the Libyan pie, mentioned in some obscure news report about Malta International Airport a few weeks ago? The corporation’s Malta company, which looks after Libyan operations, has also been debarred:
SNC-LAVALIN (MALTA) LIMITED
150 C/O MAMO TCV ADVOCATES
PALAZZO PIETRO STIGES
90 STRAIT STREET, VLT 05 VALLETTA Malta
Debarred from 17-APR-2013 to 17-APR-2023
Reason: Violation of Consult. Guidelines 1.22(a)(i)-(ii); Proc. Guidelines 1.15(a)(i)-(ii)
Very, very interesting, Baxxter. Thank you for this connection.
The company is debarred for ten years, unlike Nair who is debarred for life.
The World Bank’s searchable database is here
http://web.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=64148989&piPK=64148984&theSitePK=84266&theSitePK=84266&contentMDK=64069844&querycontentMDK=64069700&sup_name=&supp_country=MT
Ighdli ma min taghmilha u nghidlek x’int
Today:
Times of Malta asked why the police decided to raid the spot on Saturday rather than wait to catch the gang red-handed, but no official reply was forthcoming at the time of writing.
Gahan, ara Kapitolu 164 taqsima II/4a, rigward l-objettiv pricipali tal-korp u issib ir-risposta.
In Peter Paul’s version, Kap 164 says that “l-objettiv principali tal-korp huwa li jipprovdi ikel bnin u sustanzjuz b’servizz efficjenti lill-mistednin distinti.”
Kap 164, jien nigi nitmellah altament min x’jghid il-Kapitlu 164, pero ghandi bizzejed melh f’rasi, bhal tat-Times biex nevalwa sitwazzjoni.
Il-Pulizija setghat tal-inqas taqbad lil-hallelin waqt it-thaffir tal-mina.
Dan bhal meta jaqbdu “mule” bid-droga fl-ajruport.
Nahseb l-aqwa prevenzjoni biex rejat ma jsirx hu li taqfel lil-kriminal mhux tharbattlu l-pjan minghajr ma taqbdu.
Kieku qabdu lil xi hadd, kien jehel tal-inqas talli ma kellux permess tal-MEPA u tat-TM biex ihaffer mina taht it-triq.
Missu spicca fil-villa ta’ Varist !
There is a wealth of information on this site for the authorities who should be watching. You are doing their homework for them. Will they please act.
As for the Prime Minister it is beggars belief that he has not publicly made a statement in regard to this man, distancing himself from him. Until he does so, he is guilty by association and one would be forgiven for thinking that he is on the take himself.
http://www.192.com/atoz/people/shankor/shiv/w11/1617860977/
Shiv P Shankor is yet another alias of the same man.
The Shiv P Nair listed further down on the page as living at the same address, is the same man.
Birds of a feather.
Did not take long for the PL to go back to their old tricks and tactics in less than six months. They have employed their friends, cronies, families and acolytes, some of them in positions which will encumber the next administration.
This is more proof, if it were needed, that the undemocratic can come to power with a democratic vote.
They are going to grab and snatch what they can in the first three to four years in government and then in the final year try to get in again.
Keep up the good work, Daphne.
Now that we know what he looks like will journalists please hound this man and ask him the questions that need to be asked.
You’ll find this man at the Hilton gym in the morning, then later in Valletta, walking down St John Street and turning left into Strait Street, headed to his office. He is about six feet tall and very well dressed.
This is our man
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/shiv/nair?%20mSplash=1
You mean THIS is Muscat’s man:
http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=65688192&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=Bq6B&locale=en_US&srchid=310628331381156382199&srchindex=1&srchtotal=22&trk=vsrp_people_res_name&trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A310628331381156382199%2CVSRPtargetId%3A65688192%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary
I have to say that in the context of our small-island state, where everyone is obsessed with his/her neighbour’s movements so evident in the local newspapers, your unearthing of this shady character and his connections with the Labour Party, both when in Opposition and now that it is in government, is NOTHING SHORT OF SPECTACULAR.
Well done, and let’s hope (against hope?) that at least one newspaper in Malta takes up the several leads you have provided to ‘grill’ the government and Mr Nair himself (who lives here) about his past dealings and his role in Muscat’s latest energy deal with China.
Dream on Last Post!
I have come to the conclusion that no newspaper, nor anybody else for that matter, is interested in bringing this out in the open.
It has been sometime now since Daphne first came up with this scandalous story and yet nobody bothered to take any lead. Perfect silence on all fronts.
I wonder why. And I am not being sarcastic.
Obviously Joseph Muscat’s new Labour movement, apart from collecting the rejects of the Nationalist Party is just as keen to collect the rejects of the World Bank.
De gustibus …
Out of curiosity, why is it that the international press hasn’t made a big deal out of this? I mean, since there is all this proof you’d think that something would be said.
[Daphne – It’s not important on that scale. It’s important to us, here in Malta, and to those doing business with Malta at government level.]
After Reporter all I can say is: inbidlet it-toaster u hareg pastizz
The government has just published the Economic Partnership Programme (EPP), due to the Excessive Deficit procedure.
Under the energy sector, it is stated that there were 19 bids and 3 companies were short listed for the new gas power station.
This is a BLATANT LIE. Nineteen companies collected the tender document and only three companies submitted an offer for the tender which closed on 27th September. Not only were there not 19 bids, but certainly these bids were not reviewed and “short listed ” in one week.
Apparently the Spanish company has been disqualified, leaving only 2 valid bids.
Is this Konrad Mizzi giving wrong information to the EU? Shame on YOU. minister.
Who exactly is shadowing the energy minister? That person is fast asleep.
Furthermore in the same report it is stated that the cost of power generation had decreased from 17 cents to 11 cents (due to diesel power station). That’s a 35% cost reduction. So the 25% reduction in electricity tariffs to be announced in the next budget is courtesy of Austin Gatt.