Ivan Hallett from Floriana was handed a suspended jail term today and fined over €75,000 today for smuggling alcohol in 2015. A third of the fine will be paid to customs for the tax he avoided paying when he smuggled the bottles of vodka, whiskey and other drinks from Sicily.
Ivan Hallet is a long time activist of the Labour Party and a canvasser to some of its senior politicians. In 2015, Daphne Caruana Galizia reported about Hallett’s brushes with the law on which he was convicted today. She reported on earlier convictions of a similar nature.
For several years Ivan Hallett was a Labour councillor in Floriana.
