CANADIAN VENTURE CAPITALIST THREATENED WITH ASSASSINATION BY CHIEF OF STAFF TO MALTA'S PRIME MINISTER

Joseph Muscat and Keith Schembri

If you thought it was safe to conduct business in Malta, given its cesspool of corruption and organized crime, think again.  Information emerging out of one of the country's biggest financial scandals, the VGH Hospitals case,  has revealed that a Canadian businessman, Ram Tumulari, was bluntly threatened with assassination by the second most powerful person in the country at the time, KEITH SCHEMBRI, who was the Chief of Staff to Malta's Prime Minister, JOSEPH MUSCAT. Tumulari was instructed by Schembri to follow his orders, or suffer the same fate as assassinated investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, who was blown up by a car bomb after she exposed systemic corruption by Muscat and  senior government officials in his Labour Party (PL). Schembri ran Muscat's office of the Prime Minister, and acted as his enforcer and bagman until Muscat was forced to resign in disgrace after his connection to Daphne's murder was exposed. 

Tumulari specifically disclosed that Schembri directly warned him that he was in danger of assassination, like happened to Daphne. Given that this statement was made only two months after Daphne's death, at the hands of several Maltese career criminals, Tumulari was forced to take it seriously. He has now reportedly disclosed it in connection with whistleblower proceedings filed in the United States.

 Keith Schembri has been banned from travel into the United States by its government, based upon corruption allegations. He has not been convicted of a crime in Malta's notoriously slow court system, where undue influence rules, and cases involving Labour Party officials drag out for decades, or are dismissed after prosecutors intentionally commit legal or procedural errors, to insure that justice is never done. 

Access to the courts, to remedy any losses, or wrongs committed in Malta, is an impossible task, and foreign investors, as well attorneys seeking to avail their clients of the country's huge tax  benefits as an offshore center, are advised to look elsewhere, unless they wish to experience firsthand the dangers of working in a business environment where official corruption is enforced by the Maltese Mafia, at the pojnt of a gun, or by way of a car bomb. Govern yourselves accordingly.