WILL IOSIF GALEA ALSO END UP ON LIFE SUPPORT, WHILST HIS ASSETS ARE DRAINED BY HIS CLIENTS ?

 

in Malta, the more things change, the more they remain the same. I am talking about organized crime. You are looking at a photograph of the men surrounding then-Prime Minister Dom Mintoff, at one of his public speeches. The man to his extreme left, identified by the red circle, is JOHN BONDIN a/k/a il Fusellu,  a Labour Party thug, sexual predator, fixer, and made member of the Maltese Mafia. He is also reported to be the illegitimate son of PM Mintoff, hence his physical proximity to the radical Socialist politician whose violent reign most Maltese would like to forget, but there is a parallel here which could be made, when we speak truth to power, as Daphne often did, and where past is merely prologue.

We dredge up this piece of history from Malta's darkest days to compare this career criminal, Bondin, with IOSIF GALEA, current a guest of the German Kripo ( Kriminal Polizei),  and facing multiple felony charges. Mr Galea, alleged to have created a niche money laundering business within Malta's online gaming industry, and a traveling companion of Joseph and Michelle Muscat, is rumoured to be cooperating with the authorities, in an effort to mitigate what will otherwise be a long prison sentence, to be served far from the corrupt influence of Malta's judiciary and police.

Compare and contrast Galea with il Fusellu; both were deep inside Malta's criminal brotherhood, protected from the consequences of their crimes at the highest level, moving and cleaning the proceeds of crime for powerful senior PL leaders. Both qualify as thoroughly despicable characters, what we call scum, who would not last a month in any country where the Rule of Law trumped corruption. Bondin's fate may very well befall Galea, as both lived lives that generally do not result in a quiet death at an advanced age, of natural causes. Both were privy to many secrets about Labour MPs and ministers. 

When il Fusellu made unwanted advances upon a woman, a family member of hers shot and killed him, in an act later determined by a court to be self-defense. Curiously, Luis Bartolo, who ended that degenerate's career of crime, was sprung from prison, and fled the country, only to return many years later to be exonerated.

Here is where it gets interesting:  Bondin had given his minister clients each a Power of Attorney over those significant bank accounts that the held for them as frontman, but those documents lapsed upon his death. Therefore, to give themselves sufficient time to go to his many bank accounts, and clean them out, doctors maintained life support upon the body at the hospital, under the close supervision of the ministers, who preserved the legal fiction that he remained alive, long enough so that they could make those massive withdrawals. Only in Malta could such a macabre scene occur.

Given the sad fact that most Maltese prisoners who are in possession of incriminating information about the country's power elite criminal class of government officials generally do not survive a stint in custody, we are, unfortunately, expecting to hear the same sad news regarding Iosif Galea, but what if he also gave Power of Attorney to certain clients ? Will we see a photograph of him, hooked up to tubes and wires, but obviously deceased, whilst his clients take care of their dirty business ? Stranger things have happened in a nation where crime and corruption are the rule, rather than the exception, and nobody gets out alive.