‘These People Had No Authorisation’: Xlendi Hotel On Phantom ID Card Registrations
The owning company of the former Xlendi Hotel has stated that it never authorised six foreigners to register their ID card addresses to the property that has not been in use for years.
Earlier today, lawyer and former PN MP Jason Azzopardi revealed the names of six foreigners who had their ID cards registered on the hotel’s property, as part of the major corruption scandal that rocked the country mere weeks ago.
Excel Investments Limited told Lovin Malta that it categorically denies consenting to this.
“Excel Investments Limited is the owner of the ex Xlendi Hotel. Excel Investments Limited, including its shareholders, directors and officers categorically deny the allegation that it enabled the use of the property in question for it to be used by anyone for any purpose, including any residential purpose.”
“These people have never worked for any of our companies and we never authorised them to apply on our properties.”
“The Property in question is not occupied and has not been occupied for a number of years. Excel Investments Limited has no knowledge of the facts that have been reported that certain individuals, who are not known to it, have a registered address at this property. Excel Investments Limited will be filing a complaint with the relevant authorities for these facts to be investigated.”
Azzopardi shared the names and ID card numbers of: Forgione Umberto – ID 81196A; Laidma Veikko Erik – ID 168407A; Orlando Concita – ID 127881A; Stoica Ionut-Alexandru – ID 172715A; Valletta Raimondo Gian-Michele – ID 476463M, and Marco Trione —0144868A.
He further shared that their information showed up in the Electoral Register of April 2024, meaning that they were eligible to vote in the Munxar Local Council election.
“This property belongs to Joe Portelli. What happened between Joe Portelli and Identity Malta through a broker to issue them Maltese ID cards that were never supposed to be issued,” Azzopardi wrote to which the owning company denied any prior knowledge of this illegality.
Earlier this month, Azzopardi’s request for a magisterial inquiry into alleged corruption, conspiracy, organised crime, falsification of documents and money laundering surrounding an Identita’ racket was upheld.
Alleged to have started operating in 2015, the scandal reportedly saw approximately 18,000 false Maltese identity cards issued to individuals primarily from Egypt and Libya. Each document was allegedly sold for prices ranging from €2,000 to €8,000, generating an estimated €60 million for those involved.
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