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Henley wants to make €200 million killing on passport sale – PN
Opposition rebuts comments from Henley partner who insists PN mass deprivation of citizenships is illegal
28 January 2014, 12:00am
Matthew Vella
Matthew Vella
1 min read
The Nationalist Party has shrugged off comments by international citizenship advisors Henley & Partners, the concessionaires for the sale of Maltese citizenship, saying the company "does not care about the irremediable damage" to Malta's reputation over the sale of passports.
"All they care about is the cash," the PN said in a statement. "They will probably rake in €200 million 'just like that'," the PN added, mocking the way Labour MPs like Luciano Busuttil have been selling the idea of copping €1 billion in sales of Maltese passports.
The government's IIP has been capped at 1,800 applicants.
Henley specialist Chris Kalin yesterday said the PN's threat to deprive IIP citizens of their citizenships if the Nationalists are returned to power, was "simply illegal".
The Opposition filed the judicial protest to forewarn applicants that in five years' time, if the PN is in government, the scheme will be cancelled and all passports issued under the scheme will be revoked.
"This judicial protest is kind of futile as we have been informing clients and prospective applicants of what the Opposition has been saying. But, as we have made it clear in the past, the idea to cancel citizenships is simply illegal," Kalin told MaltaToday in a phone interview.
On its part, the PN said Henley's network of companies in Malta was proof of the company's intentions to make millions on the sale of citizenships, amongst them Henley Estates Holdings.
"We are insisting that IIP citizens should be obliged to reside in our country for a number of years apart from buying property and making investments that create jobs. This would create a genuine link between the person and the country," the PN said.
Matthew Vella, a freelance journalist at MaltaToday, was formerly executive editor at Malt...
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simon busullotti ,jealousy will get you and your miserable debt ridden party absolutely nowhere.
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I wish Henley would make 300 million not 200 million which would mean Malta u il Maltin would be making more than a thousand million u kollha jmorru fil bwiet tan nies mhux erba tal qalba !
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Hear, hear Don Quixote fighting the windmills. Just can't believe the Opposition is stooping to this level. I guess it's the worse, most negative Opposition in Maltese political history. This kind of Opposition will never win a general election! Mark my words, never.
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So that's why all this fuss from the PN. It's jealousy because they don't have a piece from the cake.
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Simon do you think the people are stupid.First you say the IIP does not work ,now you are saying HENLEY is getting euro 200 million commision.So it works.You dont know the damage you did to your own party.
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Transparent money is good for society; its when money is made from political connections that answers are demanded: we know little about commissions for BWSC, the consultancies for the disaster of Arriva routes paid to PN stooges;the money made out of the VAT scandal; the money made out of the oil scandal; the money made out of credit cards from government entities; 500 euros per week behind our backs; monies made by a particular PN official -120,000 euros per year when he was on 12 boards u dan jghajjar li haddiehor!People like Mrs Portelli,MP who rarely attended meetings at Waste Serve, but still received 'regularly' a disturbance allowance! And the litany of scandals can go on and on.....
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Well, well just about keeps level with what was siphoned by GonziPN and a varied motley gang of sycophants. At least, now we know about it, tax it and not hear of it from some Swiss lawyer. Ghara min'ett jitkellem!
Igor P. Shuvalov •
So the same people who tried to make us believe that the this scheme would not take off the ground after the EU Parliament Vote, their protests in courts, etc, are now telling us that the Henley & Partners are expected to gain €200 million, which of course represents a small fraction of what Malta would get through the scheme.
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x mizerja ta nies il pn miskin ma jafx jielab fair u din sejjer jiehu lezzjoni jiena xettiku fuq ewropa uma jimpurtanix tista izzarma imma jiena riesq il malta niextieq se ikolli immur nivvotail pl
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F'gieh is-sewwa, Simon ieqaf. Tkomplix taghmel hsara lilek, lill-Partit Nazzjonalista u lil Pajjizna. Ma taghmils sens jahasra dik li qed tghidu li wiehed irid jaghmel numru ta snin ighix Malta bhla kundizzjoni. Illum membru ewropew jista jghix fejn irid fl-Unjoni Ewropea. Kif tista tirristringi l-freedeom of movementy? Possibbli ghadkom ma rrealizzajtux li qed taghmlu hsara lil Malta u fuq kollox lill-istess PN.
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And how much do Dr. Francis Zammit Dimech Clients' Ayrton Capital had intended to make on passport sale?
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What is wrong in making profit out of honest work? It is those who make profit out of corruption and out of being blue-eyed or red-eyed that should be condemned and punished. And we had so many of them during the past 25 years that it seems to be the norm. Let us hope the present government manages to eradicate such illicit profit.
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Issa isbah! Business and making money is dirty? Nispera li li-Malta Employers Association' rebuts these silly accusations. Minn meta l'hawn il-business sar a dirty word 'Sur' Simon Busutill? I think that Simon- li ma deherx il-bierah- hu kontra, ghax jekk din l-iskema and invesments pay back dividents, Simon jista jghid bye bye ghall-karriera politika tieghu! L-istess ghal Beppe u Jason Azzopardi.
L-unika persuna li jaghmel sens mill-PN kollu hu Cladio Grech: ma dan tista tiehu birra u tiehu xo ftit karawett u tiehu pjacir : ma Simon,il-birra tehillek!
