Like you are saying, Micallef is not good for aviation in Malta -- or anywhere else for that matter. He has screwed many pilots before, using the same drill, making false promesses, then not paying his people, and he has only gotten away with it because he was Maltese and the pilots were foreigners... Let's face it, guys: are a handful of foreign pilots fooled by Micallef going to stay in Malta, with no salary and no place to stay, trying to fight some sort of legal battle against a local? How influencial is he in Malta anyway? Does he have any solid political support on the island? Maybe it is plainly impossible to send him to jail...
Behaviors like this are making Malta look more like some shady and outlaw African state rather than the European country it is claiming to be... And it is extremely unfortunate as life on the island is great and most of the Maltese are actually very friendly and reasonnable persons.
As for the Maltese CAA/DCA & local JAA representatives, they are well aware that the man is a fool absolutely unable to operate an airline. Maybe that is why he has been denied the JAR AOC that he has been applying for for over a year... Maybe that is why he has had to operate under two different FAR135 umbrella-AOCs in less than a year... And maybe that is why he has lost both of them... Anyway, I just hope the guy leaves the aviation business and starts on another venture, say a bakery or a fashion shop for example... Even though I will certainly not eat the bread he makes!!!
