Confidentiality rules are intended to protect businesses from the abusive behaviour of competitors. They are not intended to protect criminals by hiding their crimes. If a business’s records are stolen and passed to a competitor or publicly leaked, that’s industrial espionage. That business has a clear right to complain. Unless of course what they were [...]
Mario Azzopardi, introduced by Chris Cardona as his chief of staff and close friend, is the cousin of Police Commissioner Lawrence Cutajar. Chris Cardona's Ministry website lists another person as his Chief of Staff. However Mario Azzopardi's Facebook page says he is "self-employed" at the "Ministry for Economy". His self-employment might be referring to the [...]
A moron is who moronic does. Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando, who may know a thing or two about rotten teeth and is therefore obviously qualified to run our science and technology council, barged in like a teenage gatecrasher at a royal wedding and loaned his wisdom to the Great Fejn Hu l-Leptopp Debate and looked up [...]
I am informed the Police have a perfectly good idea who tipped off the alleged assassins of Daphne Caruana Galizia prior to their arrest. The motivation for the tip off appears to have been to alert them to dispose of incriminating evidence, such as mobile phones. The Police appear to have traced the tip-off to [...]
I feel like a proper patronising sod lecturing Fundamental Rights 101, treating my well informed readers like idiots. But then I know my readers include Owen Bonnici, Jason Micallef and his English-Maltese translator, Deo Debattista, Mario Azzopardi and so on, and I realise that there’s a full range of readers and a little patronising is [...]
The United States federal court has denied Ali Sadr's request for bail pending his trial for multiple counts of bank fraud and sanctions busting. Ali Sadr's lawyers argued for bail including the argument that the Maltese authorities had certified that he was under no suspicion for his activities at Pilatus Bank. In spite of this [...]