THREE YEARS AFTER MONEY LAUNDERING CHARGES BROUGHT IN MALTA, CASE IS MYSTERIOUSLY ON HOLD PENDING FOREIGN EVIDENCE

 

If you wanted to know why accused money launderers never go to prison in the (so-called) Republic of Malta, this case, which surfaced recently in connection with another news story, will tell you all you want to know about corruption in Malta's court system, where the "Compilation of Evidence" feature of court proceedings, operas, with government approval, to delay cases ad infinitum.

The auction house owner*, PIERRE GRECH CUMBO PILLOW, who was a shareholder in PGP TRADING LIMITED, was charged with money laundering in 2020. He allegedly cleaned millions of Euros for foreign clients between 2016 and 2020. Pillow, who reportedly moved the proceeds of crime through the Bulgarian-owned SATABANK, who was shut down in 2018 for massive money laundering activity, has been linked to two of Malta's best known corrupt former Labour officials and government leaders, KEITH SCHEMBRI and KONRAD MIZZI, both of whom ran roughshod over Maltese lawlessness during the administration of resigned ex-PM JOSEPH MUSCAT.

The case has been "postponed indefinitely," due to a wait for the ostensible arrival of evidence from abroad. In truth and in fact, that evidence will never arrive in court, and if it did in fact arrive, it would find itself misfiled, thrown out, burned, or returned from whence it came. There will be not be a trial against Pillow, as he is part of the country's rampant money laundering machine, which is the primary reason why "flight capital" of unknown origin and provenance is attracted to Malta's laundrymen from far and wide in the European Union. 

Eventually, after the passage of additional years somebody at the Attorney General's office will call the case up for hearing, at which point a judge or magistrate will dismiss it, with prejudice, for the Government's failure to conduct a speedy trial, and for the harm which the pending case has done to the defendant's reputation, or for some other legal excuse. There's no justice in Malta, when it come to money laundering and financial crime.

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