Website claiming airline scam doing ‘untold damage’ to Malta’s name
Staff Reporter
An airline pilots’ forum is carrying a story which alleges a scam by a Maltese businessman with a new local airline. The allegations that are being made paint a very ugly picture of Malta and its institutions and have not, to date, been cleared up.
Sources said the topic has proved to be one of the hottest in this forum for quite a while and has already produced some 12,000 hits in three weeks. The damage being done to Malta and to its aviation industry, it was claimed, is “untold and incalculable”.
Following the allegations, a man who claimed he is a British businessman, stated that this story has swayed his decision definitely not to invest in Malta due to what he has heard about the Maltese laws and stories of alleged corruption.
The story told in the forum regards alleged arrest of four pilots with a new airline and court action undertaken by both sides in the issue.
The link is:
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthr...5&pagenumber=1
Attempts to get in touch with some of the people mentioned in the link proved unfruitful yesterday.