New Protest Sees 17 Women In Black Demanding To Know Who Owns ’17 Black’
Protestors have stormed the steps of Castille, dressed from head to toe in black to ask Prime Minister Joseph Muscat who owns the mysterious Dubai company 17 Black.
Organised by Occupy Justice Malta, the 17 women protested to mark seven months since the assassination of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.
“We came to Castille with our question, because it is now clear to all, except maybe the Prime Minister himself, that the web of corruption is based here in his very office,” a spokesperson for the group said.
“We’re telling everyone that this is where you have to come to get an answer – to Castille.”
The Daphne Project last month released an email from financial advisory firm Nexia BT which named 17 Black and another Dubai company as the main target clients of the offshore Panama companies of Tourism Minister Konrad Mizzi and the Prime Minister’s chief of staff Keith Schembri.
A leaked report by the Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit (FIAU) also found that 17 Black had received €1.3 million from an unnamed Azeri national and from the Maltese agent of the tanker supplying LNG to the Delimara power station.