VICTORIA BUTTIGIEG, Malta's Attorney General, who has been accused of protecting the guilty in the Pilatus Bank scandal, has asked the court to close and seal the proceedings in the Pilatus Bank civil case which demands that the government arrest the bank's directors for their alleged role in the biggest international money laundering operation in Malta's history.
Robert Aquilina, the president of civil society REPUBBLIKA, has publicly excoriated the AG, as well as the country's State Advocate, for attempting to hide the truth about Pilatus Bank's massive money laundering. The law requires that the bank's directors supervise its daily operation, and insure that the bank is not a center for laundering the proceeds of crime for Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs), which appears to be its principal role, as well as hiding the payment of bribes and kickbacks paid to senior government officials, including the then Prime Minister, JOSEPH MUSCAT, his Chief of Staff, and cabinet members.
The Board of Directors of record are:
LUIS FELIPE RIVERA: CEO and Director.
ALI SADR HASHEMINEJAD, CEO and Chairman of the Board
GHAMBARI HAMIDREZA, Director
ROBERT LEWIS KLINGINSMITH, Director
ARMIN ECKERMANN, Director
JOHANNES HELMUT BAUER, Director
PHILIP MERCIECA, Director
JOSEPH JERRY LIOW-YUNE JOY, Director
NOTE: Some of these directors have sought to remove themselves from liability by tendering their reservations. Such actions are ineffective.
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