A Calendar O Corruption an of Intrigue, Nd Murder

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Manfre – 3 Sep- a private agreement drafted by Lino Anna Cauchi is thrown in a cell at is concluded. Lino Cauchi was killed um gas. Mr Formosa is known to have Joe Pace. Piju Camilleri is questioned Piju Camilleri is summoned in front tember 1981 Cauchi is signed between Piju Camil- the police depot and interrogated by by blows to the head with a mallet had links with Mazzara del Vallo in by police over the incident but no of Magistrate Meli to give evidence in leri and Joe Borg. The agreement investigating officers. She is released that was found in the same well. Sicily. arrests are made. relation to Lino Cauchi’s murder. The Lino Manfre, a partner in the held by Cauchi states that Piju Camil- after a few hours and is never Camilleri denies Cauchi was his accounting firm Diamantino Manfre leri will transfer 30 plots back to Joe charged or accused of a crime. accountant. Joe Borg is also sum- dies in mysterious circumstances at Funeral – 24 April Evidence – 1992 Conclude – Octo- Borg and Victor Balzan and in return Lino Cauchi’s name crops up in a moned to give evidence and reveals Magic St Luke’s Hospital. SantaVenera Borg will drop a court case instituted 1989 ber 1996 copies of accounts showing declared Bomb Borg – 30 Lino Cauchi’s funeral takes place at court case instituted by Joe Borg Magistrate Scicluna concludes accountant Lino Cauchi worked for against Camilleri. The agreement is and undeclared money obtained from Hamrun. against Joe Pace of Magic Kiosk over inquiry report into the murder of Lino Diamantino Manfre prior to opening never honoured because it goes September 1983 the sale of land in the eighties. He A bomb explodes on the doorstep the illicit transfer of land. Cauchi is Cauchi. Kiosk up shop on his own. After Manfre’s missing when Cauchi disappears. also speaks about a stormy meeting of Joe Borg’s house in Swieqi. The identified as Piju Camilleri’s accoun- death Cauchi raises his life insurance Inquiry – July in which Piju Camilleri scolded Lino culprits are never caught. tant. policy. General election – 1989 Inquiry 2 - Janu- Cauchi for presenting a set of tender Clients of the accounting firm 12 December Attorney General asks Magistrate ary 1997 accounts, which Camilleri did not include high profile individuals and Mument - 10 June Scicluna to continue with the inquiry Anastasi 3 - 9 AG returns Lino Cauchi inquiry to want Borg to see. shady characters in the Labour Party. 1981 1984 into the disappearance and murder of November 1993 Magistrate Scicluna Piju Camilleri’s lawyer and former that General election is held. The Labour Il-Mument reports that in less than Lino Cauchi. Prime Minister Eddie Fenech Adami Mid Med Bank chairman Joseph Bomb threat – 22 Party is returned to power despite not two years Piju Camilleri, who works as lays the Anastasi voluminous reports Inquiry 3 – May Buttigieg is also summoned to give September 1981 having an absolute majority of votes a Works manager with the Public Anastasi – Octo- on the table of the House of Repre- evidence. started but manages to secure a majority of Works Department under Lorry Sant, sentatives. Judge Anastasi implicates 1997 During a stormy meeting with land Magistrate returns inquiry back to seats. Although legally the Labour bought Lm250,000 worth of property. ber 1989 former Labour Party ministers and dealers Victor Balzan and Joe Borg, Prime Minister Eddie Fenech Adami AG Inquiry 7 – 15 Party is correct to assume power, the other MLP sympathisers in irregular it all Piju Camilleri Works Manager under entrusts retired Judge Anastasi with November 2001 situation creates immense political and abusive loans from Mid Med Minister Lorry Sant, loses his temper Victor Balzan Mid the investigation into claims of irregu- Magistrate Meli returns inquiry to tension that lasts for the next five Bank when former MLP candidate Balzan Nazzjon – AFTER YEARS of silence, in open and threatens Borg with a bomb after larities at Mid Med Bank before 1987. AG for the last time. The ball now court, Joe Pace of Magic Kiosk fame years. Med - 02 October Joseph Buttigieg was the bank’s creating obstacles for land to be April 1998 rests in the Attorney General’s court. has finally told his version of facts on transferred free of charge to Camilleri. 1985 chairman. Despite damning evidence Victor Balzan mysteriously drops the scandalous land deals in the eight- This threat conditions Borg’s future Vanish – 15 Febru- Victor Balzan requests an overdraft Corruption - nobody is brought to justice. libel proceedings initiated a year ear- ies, extortion, threats and blackmail. worth Lm100,000 from Mid Med Bank, Piju – 17 February decisions to transfer land to Camilleri. ary 1982 March 1990 lier against In-Nazzjon over the publi- Mr Pace recounted how he got which he gets after intervention from Lino Cauchi from Santa Venera dis- The Permanent Commission Against Mafia - 1994 cation of allegations that link Balzan 2002 caught up in a spiral of deceit and cor- bank director Joe Camilleri. Subse- ruption masterminded by the late Lorry appears mysteriously. He does not Corruption publishes its report on Italian secret service officials record with the Sicilian mafia. MaltaToday reveals that police San Gwann - 23 quently Balzan flaunts the conditions Sant and his henchmen, particularly return home after work. widespread corruption involving scan- a meeting between Victor Balzan and investigators questioned Piju Camilleri September 1981 attached to the overdraft facility with Piju Camilleri. Mr Pace said that he dalous land deals in the eighties. The two Sicilian mafia bosses in Mazara in relation to Lino Cauchi murder. Joe Borg, Victor Balzan and Piju impunity. PM – July 2001 was constantly threatened to collabo- report implicates former Minister Lorry del Vallo. They discuss the creation of Camilleri meet at Notary Joseph IRD official – 16 Prime Minister Eddie Fenech Adami rate with these people or else he Sant, Piju Camilleri, former Dom a mega casino at Manoel Island, encourages police force to continue Priest – February would be ruined. In 1995 and 1996 Mr Henry Saydon to sign a contract February 1982 Body parts – 15 Mintoff personal assistant Joe Camil- which never materialises after the investigating the unsolved political Pace was also the victim of two bomb transfering tracts of land in Safi and An Inland Revenue official, Charles 2002 leri, Joe Pace of Magic Kiosk and arrest of the two Sicilians. murders including that of Lino Cauchi. explosions at his home and the Magic San Gwann to Piju Camilleri for which Zammit who is also an acquaintance November 1985 Former Santa Venera parish priest Human body parts brutally sawn off businessman Victor Balzan. Kiosk respectively. no money was paid. of the Cauchi family, visits Anna Dun Joe Falzon is interrogated by But writing last Sunday in another and wrapped in black plastic bags Cauchi at home requesting her to Denial – 7 April Inquiry 4 – 7 police over alleged statements he newspaper Daphne Caruana Galizia are discovered in a well in an area Court - September give him a box of important files. 1994 made in 1982. Dun Falzon denies he shed doubt on Mr Pace’s court testi- Joe Camilleri – 6 known as Il-Bosk at Buskett. August 2001 November 1981 Zammit is acting on orders given to 1990 In a libel case against Il-Gens editor AG refers Lino Cauchi inquiry to had stopped visiting Anna Cauchi in mony asking whether the Magic Kiosk him by another IRD official Mr Police file corruption charges Carmel Attard, with tears in his eyes Magistrate Silvio Meli for further inves- 1982 because he was threatened, a owner is some kind of new moral hero. A deed is signed by which a certain She added that Mr Pace would not be Micallef, known as Il-Mulej. Anna Election – 09 May against Lorry Sant, Piju Camilleri, Vic- Piju Camilleri denies any connection statement that baffles the Cauchi rela- Winston Carbone transfers property to tigation. where he is today had he not co-oper- Cauchi yields to the demand despite tor Balzan, Joe Camilleri, Joe Pace with the murdered Lino Cauchi. tives. former Dom Mintoff private secretary 1987 ated in the corrupt land dealings that knowing that her husband did not and Ganni Camilleri. Lorry Sant and Joe Camilleri in exchange for building General election is held and Nation- Speculators – 6 begun under Lorry Sant’s tenure as want anybody to touch those files. Piju Camilleri are also charged with permits. On contract the deal is val- alist Party is declared winner. Bomb Pace – 6 Anna – March Minister of Public Works. abusing their public post. September 2001 Meanwhile, reacting to these com- ued at LM10,000 but Carbone does March 1995 Magistrate Silvio Meli hears new evi- 2002 Briefcase – 17 Identify – 3 May Police question Anna Cauchi as ments Joe Pace told MaltaToday not get a cent from that amount. Prescription – May A bomb explodes outside the main dence from land speculators involved that his unfortunate relationship with February 1982 1988 entrance of a block of flats in Sliema in land deals in the eighties. New light part of the ongoing investigation. A Lorry Sant started in the 1970s when Ghaxaq – 2 Lino Cauchi’s briefcase is found Newspaper reports say that Aus- 1991 where Joe Pace lives. is shed on Lino Cauchi murder. neighbour who in 1982 had testified government issued a public call for December, 1981 abandoned and forced open in the tralian expert has identified the During the compilation of evidence that she saw Lino Cauchi park his car tender for the Magic Kiosk in Sliema, vicinity of Chadwick Lakes. It is against the six accused of corruption outside the house where it was found formerly known as Bonello’s kiosk. Joe Borg and Victor Balzan transfer remains found in Buskett as Lino MLP-Sant - 24 Inquiry 5 – 7 Sep- empty. Magistrate Carol Peralta throws the and who later changed her story is "At the time the kiosk was on 49 plots of land in Ghaxaq to Piju Cauchi’s. Magistrate’s report not out April 1995 yet. cases out, decreeing that they were tember 2001 also interrogated. encroachment terms at the meagre Camilleri’s company Tor Ltd in return prescribed by law. Labour leader Alfred Sant withdraws Magistrate Meli returns inquiry back rent of Lm30 a year. Government for building permits in the area. On Dun Falzon – the party suspension imposed on for- to AG with some stern comments decided that Bonello’s kiosk should be MLP – January Joe Pace - 28 given out on tender. I submitted an contract the plots are valued at March 1982 Anastasi 2 - 26 mer minister Lorry Sant owing to about the way the inquiry and investi- Lm15,500 but the amount is never Dun Joe Falzon, Lino Cauchi’s spiri- 1989 health reasons. gation into Lino Cauchi’s murder was April 2002 offer of Lm1,500 while the Bonello fam- ily submitted their offer at Lm50 per paid to Borg and Balzan. tual and personal confidante, sug- The Labour Party general confer- June 1991 conducted. MaltaToday reveals shocking court year. Government accepted my offer gests to Mr Cauchi’s relatives to look ence suspends Piju Camilleri, Victor Judge Anastasi concludes first Sant dies – 5 evidence presented by Joe Pace in a report on the Mid Med scandal. court case instituted against him by and the premises was given to me on Stormy – 8 for his body in the reservoirs of St Balzan and Joe Camilleri from all October 1995 Inquiry 6 – 26 condition that I were to employ 22 full Venera. He admits to being threat- party activities after serious allega- Joe Borg. Pace says that during a December 1981 Former minister Lorry Sant passes October 2001 time employees and four part timers." ened and some 15 days after Lino tions of corruption during the eighties. Formosa – 24 stormy meeting in 1981 he heard Piju Mr Pace explained that after carrying At a meeting in Joe Pace’s office away. AG returns inquiry to Magistrate Cauchi’s disappearance stops visiting October 1991 Camilleri say, "Just wait until they get out the necessary works Lorry Sant Joe Borg is forced to transfer 22 plots Meli and more individuals including him", about Lino Cauchi. Pace admits started putting spokes in his wheel. the Cauchi family. Confirmed – 20 An explosion on the cruise ship La of land in Fgura to Piju Camilleri. Magic Kiosk bomb Piju Camilleri are interrogated. that he was threatened and pressured Lorry Sant retracted from his tactics Valletta in Manoel Island claims the However, Piju Camilleri insists that Joe March 1989 - 31 January 1996 by Piju Camilleri and the late Lorry after Mr Pace advised him that he was Pace should appear on the final deed Anna – February Magistrate David Scicluna’s report life of businessman Philip Formosa. going to seek help from a higher A powerful bomb destroys the Piju evidence – 14 Sant to carry out their dirty business. in his steed. During the same meeting 1983 on the identification of the body parts The boat is believed to have been authority. "To calm down the situation I booby-trapped with liquefied petrole- Magic Kiosk in Sliema belonging to November 2001 voluntarily and out of courtesy pre- sented Lorry Sant with a silver teapot set. That was my undoing," Mr Pace admitted. Lorry Sant asked Mr Pace for Lm25,000 or else he would kick him off the land and having already spent Lm180,000 and employed a number of people Mr Pace had no alternative but to comply. And hence started the downward spiral into a web of deceit and corruption. "It is not fair for Daphne to declare that I had co-operated with these acts of corruption when what I did, I was forced to do against my free will," Mr Pace reiterated.