The two-man company to which John Dalli has given the ‘Eur25 million’ IT job is registered in a hotel room in Bugibba

Published: November 28, 2013 at 11:07am

Mark Sammut

And this is aside from the fact that Sammut was his ‘special adviser’ when he was EU Commissioner last year. Advising on what, exactly?

What a shark.




34 Comments Comment

  1. Hammerhead says:

    Dalli BA kif ma jisthix jidher quddiem in-nies?

  2. Jozef says:

    Can you really do that?

  3. curious says:

    The hotel’s website was created by Cursor Solutions. Do they pay rent?

    Website Created by Cursor Solutions Malta
    http://www.cursor.com.mt

  4. zz says:

    LOL! ROFL! I know you don’t approve these acronyms but believe me I am laughing out loud. I didn’t realise it is THAT Mark. I believe he calls himself DR. Mark Sammut.

    The company is not a two-man company. They also have a receptionist/clerk handling paperwork (sometimes).

    They are the epitome of inefficiency and other derogatory adjectives which should not be uttered in public.

    Their first reply to any query is “It is not possible” and their standard reply to any problem is “It cannot be”.

    They are so stuck in their one-way world that they simply are unable to understand that there are various ways to accomplish the same thing.

    This is another case of not fit for the purpose: guaranteed by several years of personal experience with these people.

  5. anon says:

    This Mark Sammut is a very shady character. His partner’s father is the owner of the former Pirella supermarket. Dun Gorg Dalli is always hanging around their house in Rabat.

  6. zz says:

    Once upon a time Cursor Ltd used to provide car park systems for almost all major car parks in Malta. But once the equipment/systems got outdated many moved on to other suppliers.

    They failed to win tenders for major car park projects such as those of the airport, Mater Dei Hospital, Tigne Point, and the general client base for such products shrank to almost nil.

  7. Rumplestiltskin says:

    Even if this company was registered in its own plush offices in a modern office tower, the question remains: how is John Dalli giving out government contracts?

    Surely this is not in accordance with government regulations.

    Consultants to government – especially ‘unpaid’ ones, who therefore, strictly speaking, have no contract with government – cannot give out government contracts.

    • etil says:

      Forget about ‘not in accordance with government regulations’. PL motto is NOW WE CAN. .

      • ciccio says:

        No they cannot. This country still has the rules to stop this if this is what is happening here. Where are the relevant authorities, like the Auditor General, and the opposition?

  8. Bubu says:

    That means that when the project fails miserably and “Cursor Ltd” fails to meet it’s contractual obligations and SLA there will be nothing in the way of assets to seize, except possibly a bed-side table or two.

    Is it even legal to register a company with a hotel room address?

  9. Calculator says:

    And so the accountability, meritocracy and change of standards continues.

    Meanwhile, Mark Anthony Sammut has posted another blog post worth reading: http://markanthonysammut.blogspot.com/

    • La Redoute says:

      That’s John Zammit’s editorial. Anyone born in the 1960s would know what he means having lived, quite literally, through Malta’s version of 1984.

  10. Pufta bic-coff says:

    Is this ever going to end?

    If the above is correct, and I have absolutely no reason to doubt its veracity, we are here looking at a crime unfolding and Peter Paul Zammit should send his men to investigate.

    Also due to the very public nature of this whole affair, the amount involved and the flagrant breach of all procurement regulations will the Attorney General please wake up and get the duty magistrate to open a formal enquiry before the Police decide once again that there is no case against John Dalli.

    [Daphne – Excuse me, but what’s to doubt? That’s a screenshot from the MFSA companies registry. You can look it up yourself.]

  11. angelheart says:

    Dalli used to have an IT related company himself. DBMS Ltd. Perhaps someone could do some research on it, and see what comes up.

    • La Redoute says:

      Have you tried researching it yourself? Why expect somebody else to do it?

      • Paddling Duck says:

        It did not come up on the MFSA website.

      • La Redoute says:

        Who said anything about the MFSA website? You’ve the entire internet at you fingertips. Go on, here’s a start: http://www.recycleinme.com/rim-johndalli/home.aspx

        If you look hard enough, you’ll find a connection to Tyre Ltd, the company Dalli said is moving billions through the Bahamas to help poor people in Africa (ahem). Hint: look out for the name Dalli.

        DBMS = database management systems. That was the name of Dalli’s original company, set up when he came back from Brussels after having been there for a while BEFORE he became active in public life and developed a psycho social disorder which is curable only by the election of a Labour government and immunity to prosecution.

        How do I know this? It’s on the MFSA website. You just need to keep searching till you find it. Try working backwards through the records of Dalli’s holding company.

      • angelheart says:

        Yawn! Because I do not have the time or access to the “international network of spies”. However I did find this article http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/2007/10/21/jdalli.html where John Dalli signs of with an email @dbms.com.mt. So I guess I was right. Anyone else know anything about this?

      • La Redoute says:

        I don’t have much time, nor access to an international network of spies. You can find information in the time it takes you to post comments here – literally. It takes seconds to run a Google search.

      • La Redoute says:

        Here’s a suggestion. Run a Google search with that email address in quotation marks. Scroll past the results in English to the one in Chinese and click on Google translate.

        See? It takes just a few seconds.

        And I did it while I kept up with my email and phone calls at the same time.

    • Joseph Ellul-Grech says:

      Dalli’s company was registered as Database Management Service Ltd., company No. C5114. The monthly remuneration he got from Daewoo was paid to that company. His wife was a joint director and shareholder.

      The company had a white Daewoo Espero chassis no. KLAJF19V1SB 739096 registered in its name.(Evidence exists) This car was never paid for. It was written off in the Daewoo company accounts in return for services rendered. A tax efficient way of getting paid or in other words a backhander. Call it what you wish.

      • Joseph Ellul-Grech says:

        Shortly after the Daewoo loans were approved John Dalli’s daughter Louise, who was still at university, received free of charge a black Daewoo Cielo chassis no. KLATF19Y1SB 598856.

        There were other substantial backhanders that John Dalli (Johnny Cash) received. Evidence to support these allegations exists.

      • La Redoute says:

        C5114 is now Corporate International Consultancy Ltd. Its directors and shareholders are Dalli’s daughters.

        Angelheart – over to you.

      • angelheart says:

        Can someone check what company no C43060 brings up ? Is it related?

  12. Gaetano Pace says:

    Who owns that hotel?

  13. Melissa Mifsud says:

    Why is the name of the jpg Mark-Sammut-1.jpg? Is the name significant?

    [Daphne – He owns it.]

  14. Anthony Briffa says:

    Does the Auditor General feature anywhere in investigating these obscenities?

  15. pizzi says:

    The new system kicks in on January 1, 2014 and hospital staff are being trained on it. It is very complicated and takes a long time to book a single appointment. It will cause some havoc once it is in full swing.

    We will all be assured that this is caused by teething problems and if the problems persist it will all be attributed to sabotage by the usual blue suspects.

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