Italian mafia bust with links to Maltese companies

Mar 15 2021

A Maltese company has allegedly had connections with the Sicilian Santapaola-Ercolano mafia group. The company has reportedly allowed the evasion of €30 million in taxation by Italian finance authorities. Authorities from Catania, along with the organised crime unit Scico, seized €80 million in assets from an online sports betting organisation whose branches spread into Malta, along with other European cities.

The Italian finance police (known as Guardia di Finanza) stated how the mafia clan created an unauthorised website, which had ownership by a Maltese company, and allowed it to hide its links with Italy and authorities. A total of €32 million invest were charged to the Maltese company, allowing for ‘massive tax evasion in Italy.’

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Maltese Olympic Committee granted €2.7 million from SportMalta

Mar 14 2021

In a press conference in front of the Maltese Olympic Committee, Parliamentary Secretary for Youth, Voluntary Organisations and Sport Clifton Grima presided of the signing of a new agreement between Sport Malta and the Maltese Olympic Committee which will secure more than €2.7 million in funds over a 4-year period.

Posted by Clifton Grima on Wednesday, 3 March 2021

Grima stated that the it is the government’s plan to assist the Olympic Committee so it is more independent and in a stronger position, going on to highlight how these funds will aid Malta in better planning of international games and in the Games of the Small States in 2023.

SportMalta head Mark Cutajar expressed his and the organisation’s enthusiasm in receiving a record financial package while Olympic Committee President Julian Pace Bonello stated that with this agreement, local elite athletes from sport organisations can be assisted further in the efforts and sacrifices to increase their successes in the next four years.

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268 COVID-19 cases registered overnight with 287 recoveries

67 COVID-19 cases registered overnight with 323 recoveries

Mar 14 2021

Malta has registered 268 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours from 4,305 swab tests, while 287 patients have recovered. This information was announced by the official Facebook page of Malta’s Ministry for Health.

As of Saturday 13th March 2021, 120,073 vaccine doses were administered of which 39,099 were 2nd doses.

To date, Malta has registered 26,535 COVID-19 cases in total, of which: 23,060 have recovered, 351 died and 3,124 are still active.

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Crowds cry “shame on you” after Sarah Everard vigil is broken up by police

Mar 14 2021

On March 13, 2021, crowds gathered on Clapham Common for a vigil celebrating the life of Sarah Everard following the tragedy of her kidnapping and murder, which event was broken up by the police for breaking COVID-19 restrictions.

People shouted “Shame on you”, “Leave them alone” and “Arrest your own” as members of the vigil were handcuffed and escorted off the stage due to the braking of coronavirus regulations.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan along with various politicians from different sides of the spectrum voiced their concerns with the ‘disproportionate use of force’ and some even calling for the resignation of the Metropolitan Police Chief.

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