The Justice Minister’s article in today’s Times of Malta is a national embarrassment. People at the Venice Commission must be reading it and rolling on the floor with laughter. What a proper buffoon. I’ve already written why I think Edward Zammit Lewis lost the argument here. I feel no inclination to repeat myself just because Edward Zammit Lewis is
Edward Zammit Lewis is reported to be objecting to Police Superintendent George Cremona being made head of the asset recovery bureau. That’s an office that largely exists as a legal fiction rather than in reality. It is meant to seize objects owned by criminals acquired from the proceeds from their crimes. Typically, this would be about high value
The justice ministry has returned to the selection committee the name of the preferred candidate to take over the agency responsible for confiscating criminals’ assets. The Asset Recovery Bureau has not had a chief executive officer for some five months, despite it being one of the worst performers in an ongoing review of the country’s anti-money laundering