Leisure Clothing and crime: the Adrian Grech Cumbo connection
Read the story in MaltaRightNow today (link below). The information I can add to this is that Grech Cumbo, who works for the Leisure Clothing factory as a sort of fixer for its managing director Bin Han, has been appointed to the board of governors of the Institute of Tourism Studies, known as ITS.
When this appointment was made, he rushed to Facebook to announce that he had been made “director of International Tourism Studies”. The man is barely literate and can hardly speak English. His Facebook posts are painful.
While this should in and of itself disqualify him from sitting on the board of governors of an educational institute, there is his ‘fixer’ work for Leisure Clothing to consider.
Ernest Azzopardi, who was appointed chairman of the board of governors by the incoming Labour government, resigned after little more than a year in the post, last July, citing “personal reasons”.
Exactly what is Adrian Grech Cumbo’s connection to the powers-that-be in this government?
Grech Cumbo is also campaigning for the legalisation of drugs which are currently illegal, and is a member of the Facebook group Legalise It. I consider this to be completely inappropriate and incompatible with his role as a member of the board of governors of a training college for teenagers and young adults.
If I were a parent of any student at the ITS, I would be furious to know that one of its governors is campaigning for the legalisation of the sort of drugs that parents are forever battling against. Imissu jisthi, ja zibel.
Photograph shows Adrian Grech Cumbo
Label C is the Sliema shop where clothing made by indentured Chinese labourers at Leisure Clothing is sold – it is their ‘factory outlet’
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Last FB post by Grech Cumbo said “I feel like a piece of shit” ….. how appropriate
A+ There is only one word to describe people like him, Zibel.
It would be interesting to see who that restaurant belongs to.
Possibly Label C stands for Label China, how original. It’s also one of the main sponsors of Ilsien in-Nisa on Super One. There are photos splashed all over their FB page.
This Leisure Clothing story looks like a chapter right out of HBO’s ‘The Sopranos’
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Could we know who the person responsible for apponting this sorry excuse for a governor is please?
He rants, he rambles, he refers to ‘the girls’ and their antics in a way which no one in an educational institution should.
He thinks he is cool but one wonders if he knows how pathetic his command of the language he communicates with on these posts is.
Our commiseration should be sent to all those working around him but especially under him.
There is nothing worse than working for a semi-literate person who thinks that he is the big cheese.
You’re being rather kind just calling this piece of shit, as self described, zibel.
The Label C boutique is such a scam. They told me, when I asked them, that their clothes are made in Malta by Maltese designers and Maltese workers and that the fabrics are from Italy.
It is terrible knowing you bought clothes made by Chinese slave labour. I can’t believe that on their Facebook page they are advertising Malta Moda. Really?
You can see the Chinese on their album photo page.
I would rather pay a good price knowing my clothes are made by people who are operating legally and whose workers are not being trafficked and abused.
One of the Chinese men in those photos is Bin Han. He’s the younger one, cutting the door ribbon in the company of another Chinese man who looks like the former Chinese ambassador.
Bin Han is the managing director of Leisure Clothing Ltd. and who was hauled in for questioning when the story broke and the police couldn’t pretend they hadn’t noticed.
Another of the unattractive men at that party was Adrian Grech Cumbo.
People entrust their children to the most awful charges.
Isn’t there a greater sense of responsibility? both on the part of the Government and the parents?
He sounds like a fixer but can’t even string two words together.
Did they hope to attract foreign students?
Or is it just another now typical Maltese certificate issuance body? A place to spend two or three years and get a student visa to stay in Malta meanwhile on the barest of qualifications?
How is it that sub-literate people like Grech Cumbo are even allowed to VOTE?
The fact that they can barely – and that’s putting it politely – construct a sentence, but are nonetheless entrusted to make a rational decision regarding the country’s future, beggars belief.
Seems that Grech Cumbo’s problem is not only that he cannot put together a coherent sentence in English, but that he can hardly think logically.
Grech Cumbo spent some time going around trying to fix business deals.
At one point around the year 2008, he was trying to convince the prime minister that he would bring to Malta a company which produces electric cars.
He was accompanied by a couple of East German morti-di-fame whose ‘projects’ in Germany never took off. They were after the money of Maltese businessmen. But of course no one trusted them with the money.
“Grech Cumbo spent some time going around trying to fix business deals.”
He was still at it this summer, acting as a go-between for an Italian wanting to invest in Malta’s leisure business.
The Italian turned out to be someone who had a conviction (along with his daughter) for associating with the Camorra in 2012.
As a matter of interest he used to represent his brother Neville Grech Cumbo aka Neville Chamberlain, who tried to setup an assembly plant for electric cars in Malta.
Thanks for making the dancers famous :) such a great honour that our talents are being appreciated on such blog :) bdw.the song name was gangam style….
[Daphne – Does Adrian Grech Cumbo pay you to dance, or do you do it for free?]
Do you mean Gangnam Style?
And I think the word you were looking for is ‘infamous’.
This guy Grech Cumbo used to feature prominently in every public function organised by Muscat in the election campaign.
He got his iced bun because he voted for the PL and boasting about it.
He used to work for Robert Arrigo & Sons many years ago
Adrian Grech Cumbo would only pay in kind. He is the biggest sleazebag I have ever met. No wonder he thinks Joseph Muscat is Christmas; they are both dishonest.
No dear nobody was paid to dance cause we really know how to have fun and enjoy ourselves with simple things. Theres no need for any payments one just needs to learn how to get a life and live happily like all the staff seen in pictures. On contrary of what all wrote in your pictures here I can only see happy chinese people not slaves :)
He sure speaks fluent Mandarin.