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thebibliomancer · 4 months ago

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Essential Avengers #322: The Crossing Line Part 4: BOMBS AWAY!

September, 1990

ESCALATION!

One wonders what's left to escalate. Peace Corpse started shooting hostages. The Avenging People Flight stormed the sub and took them out. The last two terrorists are wired into some nukes. I guess the Atlanteans might escalate the situation.

Anyway, that was very nearly a recap so lets cover the rest.

Last times on Avengers: Russian terrorist group Peace Corpse hijacked British nuclear submarine, the Waterwind. The British government called the American government called Stingray and off they went to find a sub.

Russian superhero group the People's Protectorate were also trying to find the sub and wound up squabbling with the Avengers. Their fighting was too close to the ruins of Atlantis so the Atlanteans got involved too. So the Avengers and Protectorate combined forces to kick Atlantean ass.

In the ruckus, the Waterwind got damaged and the terrorists fled to Newfoundland for repairs. The heroes showed up, Captain America got hostage Stingray shot, and then Alpha Flight showed up.

They let Peace Corpse berth for repairs and then put together a plan to storm the sub and that brings us back to paragraph one.

Atlantis Attacks?

NO!

I can't go back! I won't go back!

Okay, we're at the seeming end of the terrorist sub hijacking plot, given that there's just two dudes left. But only on part 4 out of 6 so I guess the Atlanteans are here to muddle things up so the plot lasts longer.

The superheroes leap to the correct conclusion that the Atlanteans are here to mess with the sub and leap into action against them.

Quasar puts a light net around Tyrak, lightly boasting that he was able to handle Tyrak back when they were underwater so maybe back off.

Perun goes to fight Orka. He's our resident Thor-expy and Orka fought Thor once. It just makes sense.

Orka: "You wish to pit your puny surface might against that of Orka?" Perun: "Aye, blubber-laden one!" Orka: "So be it! Orka is tired of talk!" Perun: "And I am offended by your breath, you bulbous buffoon! Be silent and accept the punishment at hand!"

Some good smack talk here.

Crimson Dynamo and Guardian team up to zap the Atlanteans jetskis, to keep them from the Waterwind and the civilian evacuation.

Meanwhile, Sersi, Shaman, and Fantasma keep at the evacuation efforts. Moving people away from the Waterwind in case it explodes and moving them to the Port Au Port Bay on the other end of the island.

Shaman uses the teleportation spells from his mystic pouch. Fantasma uses her magic to hide the evacuation effort from the Atlanteans. And Sersi uses her abilities to telekinesis civilians out of harm's way.

Tyrak OH YEAHS out of Quasar's light net.

Quasar tells Tyrak that he was actually going easy on him so Tyrak grabs him by the cape and slams him into the jetski.

Geez, Quasar. Banter better.

Guardian goes to help Quasar, leaving Puck to fight the rank and file Atlanteans. And Crimson Dynamo tackles U-Man, generating heat from his armor to dehydrate and weaken the Atlantean.

Meanwhile, Orka breaks the ship he and Perun are fighting on to force the fight into the water for a home-field advantage. Where he promptly starts kicking the shit out of Perun.

Box is in the water in submersible mode and spots this. He grabs Orka from behind and hits him with enough electricity to knock him out. Although it also drains the Box armor of the rest of its power.

Box's pilot, Madison Jeffries, is forced to abandon armor underwater and rely on Perun to drag him to the surface.

Perun: "I thank you for your help... and I will hit you very hard later for interfering in the only decent fray I'd had in months!" Box: "Fair-nuff."

Hah, you're fun, Perun.

He just wants a good dust-up. A good scrap. A rousing round of fisticuffs.

Meanwhile, inside the Waterwind.

Captain America, Red Guardian, Vision, and Vostok. Illyich Prokvitch and Strokov. All sitting together in the missile room, having a casual chat.

Such light topics as "Why are you doing this, Illyich Prokvitch?"

And Red Guardian dramatically revealing his true identity to Prokvitch.

He's not just a "weak-willed glasnost lover." He's Josef Petkus, the son of Prokvitch's best pal. And Prokvitch was Josef's sponsor and military academy instructor.

Red Guardian: "Tell me now that I am not the product of what you have made me!" Prokvitch: "And I am the product of what the world has made me! I am a soldier, Josef, a warrior! And the only way left for Mother Russia is to unite the nations of this world in a mutual goal -- war!"

This fuckin' Metal Gear-esque villain gives a little monologue about how the world is in decline and how the world will be good for the economy. And while he's talking, Vision and Vostok start fussing with the wires connecting the two terrorists to the missile controls.

Strokov: "Get away from wires, robots! NOW!! See, Prokvitch -- see what they do while you prattle your ideology away -- we must act now!" Vision: "Sir, my companion and I are synthezoids, not robots, as you claim."

That doesn't seem like the primary thing in the exchange, Vision.

Red Guardian re-rails the conversation, asking Prokvitch if he really believes a global nuclear war is really the best idea.

Prokvitch: "I believe no choice is left but to try, Josef!"

THERE SEEMS LIKE THERE COULD BE A LOT OF OTHER THINGS TO TRY

Red Guardian: "What about Anna and your children, Illyich? What about my mother and sister? What happens to them?" Prokvitch: "Do not seek to distract me further!"

Prokvitch is trying to talk the economy. Don't distract him with stuff like human lives!

Also, Strokov keeps yelling at Vision and Vostok, warning them that if either him or Prokvitch is injured or killed or if they fool around with the controls, the nuclear warheads will explode.

Vision and Vostok move back over to Captain America's side of the room and tell him that they could disconnect the cybernetic link between the two terrorists and the nuclear arsenal if given enough time.

Since the terrorists could detonate at the speed of thought if they give the proper codes, Captain America decides the best idea is to wait for the right moment and then sever the link before they can react.

Meanwhile, outside, apparently the fight against the Atlanteans has been going on for hours?? Two hours and change, specifically.

That's what Shaman is saying. He's been teleporting people the whole time and he's getting tired.

Guardian and Puck are still fighting mooks. And Quasar is still fighting Tyrak. Perun sees Quasar struggling and just goes 'my fight now'

Quasar leaves Puck to go check on Crimson Dynamo.

The red-armored iron foe has U-Man in a full nelson. He complains that he's had him in a full nelson for three hours and that the Atlantean is super stinky when he's sweaty (what? did we lose another hour? time is warped and space is bendable...)

Guardian asks how Crimson Dynamo's power reserves are. Whether he has enough in his tank to finish the fight.

Dynamo isn't sure so Guardian just yoinks U-Man out of his hands and... just... stops existing??

What a weird day.

Meanwhile, Quasar has gotten fed up with fighting Tyrak for however many hours we're up to.

Quasar: "I've been holding back, Tyrak -- both out of sympathy to your plight and respect for my principles! But you haven't appreciated one and ridiculed the other! So the kid gloves are OFF!!"

And then Quasar just instantly kicks Tyrak's ass.

Although, Tyrak isn't really ready to call it quits yet. He's kinda got his heart set on someone dying from this.

Meanwhile, inside the sub, Red Guardian continues to try to appeal to Prokvitch's emotions, reminding him that family members exist and would hate living through a nuclear war.

And Prokvitch is wavering! The appeals are working their way under his skin!

Exceptttttt also happening is that Vision and Vostok have disconnected the relays between the terrorists and the nukes and gave both shield heroes the signal to clonk the bad guys in the heads.

The day is saved, surely.

Exceptttt...

Prokvitch: "Ughhh... What have you idiots done?! By severing the ties you have automatically activated the fail-safe!!" Captain America: "fail-safe?"

Damn but is Captain America making bad judgement calls today. He lets himself get distracted fighting Russians and Atlanteans instead of addressing the hijacked submarine. He misreads the hostage situation so badly that he gets Stingray shot. And now he gets Canada blown up.

This never would have happened while Monica Rambeau led the team.

I guess the Avengers are all dead now. From now on this book will be reprints of Avengers West Coast.

We're sticking with this story arc until it's done, so next week more The Crossing Line. But right now, more backup stories about the Avengers Support Crew!

A feel good series where they're tormented by their greatest failings.

This time, poor Peggy Carter, the Avengers' communications officer and aunt of Captain America's love interest Sharon Carter.

Peggy is all excited to try out the new communications and monitoring equipment that's been set up in the Avengers Subbasement.

She's so excited, she decides to check in on the Avengers' mission in Newfoundland (the A-plot) so she can also tell him how rad her new set-up is.

But instead of opening hailing frequencies, Peggy accidentally plays archival footage of Sharon Carter burning to death.

Which, apparently happened.

She and Peggy were given an assignment by SHIELD to infiltrate the National Force but Sharon was caught and brainwashed to set herself on fire.

So when Burning Sharon actually shows up in the communications room, she poses the question is it fair that she set herself on fire and died while Peggy escaped unscathed and now has a rad job with the Avengers? Didn't Peggy promise she'd keep Sharon out of trouble when she followed in her footsteps and joined SHIELD? Because if you ask Sharon, dying is definitely trouble!

Because of survivor's guilt, Peggy agrees that it really is unfair and that it should have happened to her instead, since Sharon had so much more life to live.

So Sharon tells her to join her in death, they hug, and Peggy catches on fire.

As you do?

Also, geez, that swastika. It was probably what Sharon happened to be wearing when she died. National Force was a neo-Nazi group organized by Doctor Faustus. But previous panels had Sharon too distant to see it clearly or facing the other way. It's just jarring to have it suddenly show up while she's hugging her aunt to death.

All these back-up stories are really downsizing the Avengers staff. Plus, the whole team just got nuclear exploded.

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josiebelladonna · 6 months ago

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i should continue the narrative of vostok and the fallen sailor, though. it not only sends up my fascination with antarctica (and antarctica is damn fascinating and perfect for merfolk, too) but it reminds me of all of my fantasies of alex. there were penguins and a school of fish, and a couple of screwy scientists, too.

me and him cozying up under the campfire light and the aurora australis throughout the dark months of april and may, nuzzling alone together in a cozy nook between pine island and the thwaites glaciers…

…more updates as well as more fics…

i think i’ll look into anonymity, the anonymous collection on ao3. get away from everyone including myself for the summer. this doesn’t mean i’ll stop my regular fics, though: it just means i need to put on a mask in some circumstances.

#text

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4kills23deaths · 10 months ago

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Soap and Ghost leave Milena's private island. What is left is a handful of dead Konni operatives, a shot-up house, a mobile phone, and a financier who has to tell Makarov exactly what happened.

Fucking hell, she's done for.

Another Milena fic, just because I realised how absolutely terrified I would've been to be in Milena's position during the Oligarch mission. Live laugh love Milena Romanova, everyone.

#milena romanova #cod mwiii #call of duty mw3 #call of duty modern warfare iii #cod mw3 #vladimir makarov #fanfiction #fanfic #konni group #simon ghost riley #john soap mactavish #im sorry for so many tags i thrive off ppl reading my fics

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whats-in-a-sentence · 2 years ago

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His route took him across the Siberian wastes and the Pacific Ocean above the Hawaiian islands, past the tip of South America and into the South Atlantic, where he was greeted by a second sunrise before a 42-second de-orbit burn over the Angolan coast slowed Vostok 1 into a parabolic orbit and an 8-g deceleration inside Earth's thickening atmosphere.

"Human Universe" - Professor Brian Cox and Andrew Cohen

#book quotes #human universe #brian cox #andrew cohen #nonfiction #vostok 1 #yuri gagarin #space exploration #siberia #hawaii #pacific ocean #south america #atlantic ocean #south atlantic #angola #orbit #parabola #cosmonaut

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occrpnewsagency · 7 years ago

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Azerbaijani Laundromat includes two Malta firms

Over €440,000 passed through Malta firms for UK shell company employed in Azerbaijani slush fund

Malta-registered companies have been featured in the extensive global network through which money from an Azerbaijan slush fund passed.

The data features in revelations published by the OCCRP (Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project) into the so called ‘Azerbaijani Laundromat’, a complex money-laundering operation that handled €2.5 billion over a two-year period through four shell companies registered in the UK.

From 2012 to 2014, the money was used by the country’s ruling elite to pay off European politicians, buy luxury goods, launder money, and otherwise benefit themselves.

During the same time period, the Malta company Vostok Media Exchange Ltd was used to process a total of €438,000 in nine separate payments to an English company, Metastar Invest LLP; while Metastar paid another Maltese company, Wise Holding Ltd, €9,510.

Vostok Media Exchange was set up in Malta in 2009, and its ownership is vested in PGM Group SA, which is registered in the tax haven of the British Virgin Islands. Its directorship is held by the Swiss fiduciary services firm Comatrans.

On its part, Wise Holding’s ownership is vested in a Polish firm while its directorship is held by Polish residents in Malta with similar other directorships in Malta-registered firms.

There is so far no information as to what the payments were for.

OCCRP understands that a company in Malta called Wise holding limited was incorporated with the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) in May 2014, suggesting that in 2013 no monies could have been paid to this company. After a protest by its owner Artur Lukasiewicz, this newspaper could find no indiciation that any money was received from Metastar Invest.

According to the investigation by the OCCRP and newspapers such as The Guardian, the money laundering network used four UK shell companies, one of which was Metastar Invest. Its HQ was registered at a service address in Birmingham but ultimately controlled by a company in a tax haven.

Records show that the now dissolved Metastar was run by two “members”: Advance Developments Ltd and Corporate Solutions Ltd, also dissolved and based in Belize.

In turn Metastar controlled other companies, such as Armut, which is alleged to have siphoned €192 million of funds paid by the hedge fund Hermitage Capital Management to the Russian treasury. This particular scandal involved an organised Russian criminal syndicate, the Klyuev Group, which, it is claimed, has stolen at least $800m from the Russian people with the aid of the Russian government.

Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer working for Hermitage, blew the whistle on the scandal – only to be imprisoned in Russia, and allegedly tortured in a bid to withdraw his testimony. While in prison he developed gallstones, pancreatitis and a blocked gall bladder. A human rights council set up by the Kremlin found that he was physically assaulted shortly before his death, which was the direct result of being denied urgent medical care needed to treat his conditions.

The scandal has only reinforced the perception of corruption at the heart of gas-rich Baku, where the Aliyev dynasty has held sway since the fall of communism.

In a more recent case, an Italian MP was found to have taken bribes to issue favourable reports on Azerbaijan at the Council of Europe. Italian prosecutors accused Luca Volontè, the former chair of the centre-right group in the Council of Europe’s parliamentary assembly, of accepting millions of euros in cash from Azerbaijan in exchange for supporting its government, which has been heavily criticised for subverting elections and jailing journalists and opponents.

Azerbaijan is often accused of “caviar diplomacy”, using cash and gifts to buy influence – charges first detailed by the European Stability Initiative think-tank in 2012. The council notably voted down a critical report on Azerbaijan’s political prisoners in 2013.

Former Labour MP Joe Debono Grech, a member of the Council of Europe’s parliamentary assembly who was a rapporteur on various reports on Azerbaijan, had denied ever receiving gifts from Baku.

He also had told this newspaper that a speech at a 2015 CoE assembly was misinterpreted. “I do not condone dictatorships,” Debono Grech had told OCCRP, adding that Azerbaijan is “not a democracy”.

But he was adamant that Azerbaijan could not be turned into another Libya.

While admitting that “nobody approves of unwarranted arrests,” Debono Grech described the situation as “complex” and echoed Azerbaijan’s arguments that there is no clear definition of what constitutes a political prisoner.

Way back in 2012, a report by the South East Europe think-tank, European Stability Initiative (ESI), had already included Debono Grech among the list of Azerbaijani apologists, for failing to flag irregularities in the 2010 and 2013 elections in which Ilham Aliyev consolidated his grip on power.

Debono Grech, who served as co-rapporteur for six years, during which he visited Azerbaijan some 30 times, denied ever receiving gifts from the Caucasian dictatorship.

“I can only vouch for myself, but I never received any gifts,” Debono Grech said, who even as consultant to the Gozo minister had refused any remuneration for his role.

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brookstonalmanac · 4 months ago

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Events 8.11 (after 1940)

1934 – The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island. 1942 – Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones, two-way radio communications, and Wi-Fi. 1945 – Poles in Kraków engage in a pogrom against Jews in the city, killing one and wounding five. 1952 – Hussein bin Talal is proclaimed King of Jordan. 1959 – Sheremetyevo International Airport, the second-largest airport in Russia, opens. 1960 – Chad declares independence from France. 1961 – The former Portuguese territories in India of Dadra and Nagar Haveli are merged to create the Union Territory Dadra and Nagar Haveli. 1962 – Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity. 1965 – Race riots (the Watts Riots) begin in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California. 1969 – The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine following their liftoff from the Moon. 1972 – Vietnam War: The last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam. 1975 – East Timor: Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a coup by the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin. 1979 – Two Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134s collide over the Ukrainian city of Dniprodzerzhynsk and crash, killing all 178 aboard both airliners. 1982 – A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii, killing one passenger and injuring 15 others. 1984 – "We begin bombing in five minutes": United States President Ronald Reagan, while running for re-election, jokes while preparing to make his weekly Saturday address on National Public Radio. 1988 – A meeting between Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif, Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, and leaders of Egyptian Islamic Jihad in Afghanistan culminates in the formation of Al-Qaeda. 1991 – Nickelodeon's first line of “Nicktoons” (Doug, Rugrats & Ren & Stimpy) premiere on the channel. 1992 – The Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota opens. At the time the largest shopping mall in the United States. 2000 – An air rage incident occurs on board Southwest Airlines Flight 1763 when 19-year-old Jonathan Burton attempts to storm the cockpit, but he is subdued by other passengers and dies from his injuries. 2003 – NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history. 2003 – Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand. 2006 – The oil tanker MT Solar 1 sinks off the coast of Guimaras and Negros Islands in the Philippines, causing the country's worst oil spill. 2012 – At least 306 people are killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran. 2017 – At least 41 people are killed and another 179 injured after two passenger trains collide in Alexandria, Egypt. 2023 – Luna 25 launches from the Vostochny Cosmodrome.

#Events

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weirdgoogleearth · 4 months ago

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Black Hole in the Ocean

This uninhabited island is blacked out on Google Maps, perhaps due to technical glitches or incomplete captures, but it gives off the illusion of a black hole in the midst of the vast ocean. A chilling imagery. Name: Black Hole in the Ocean Lat, Long: -10.06313,-152.3152944 Location: Vostok Island, Kiribati

#Islands #Ocean #Photo glitch

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stark-d · 5 months ago

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ten-thousand-piece-suit · 5 months ago

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Watch wishlist

Islander JFK (or other NH34 cal. watch)

Black Casio Duro (for fishing)

Vostok Amphibia with bezel mod

MJW The Accurate

Casio LF-20

Poljot De Luxe

Green dial Seiko Alpinist

#i have such proletarian tastes lol

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onlytruthnolie · 7 years ago

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Azerbaijani Laundromat includes two Malta firms

Over €440,000 passed through Malta firms for UK shell company employed in Azerbaijani slush fund

Azerbaijani ruler Ilham Aliyev and his wife Merhiban: the family dynasty has held power since the fall of Communism. The Azeri slush fund uses UK shell companies to then pay off bribes to European politicians, like Italian MP Luca Volonte (left)

Malta-registered companies have been featured in the extensive global network through which money from an Azerbaijan slush fund passed.

From 2012 to 2014, the money was used by the country’s ruling elite to pay off European politicians, buy luxury goods, launder money, and otherwise benefit themselves.

On its part, Wise Holding’s ownership is vested in a Polish firm while its directorship is held by Polish residents in Malta with similar other directorships in Malta-registered firms.

There is so far no information as to what the payments were for.USDPAYER BENEFICIARY DATE 113,447VOSTOK MEDIA EXCHANGE LTDMTMETASTAR INVEST LLPGB2014-05-27105,720VOSTOK MEDIA ECHANGE LTDMTMETASTAR INVEST LLPGB2014-02-0672,848VOSTOK MEDIA EXCHANGE LTDMTMETASTAR INVEST LLPGB2013-09-1069,457VOSTOK MEDIA EXCHANGE LTDMTMETASTAR INVEST LLPGB2013-11-1457,726VOSTOK MEDIA EXCHANGE LTDMTMETASTAR INVEST LLPGB2013-07-0531,613VOSTOK MEDIA ECHANGE LTDMTMETASTAR INVEST LLPGB2013-01-2527,540VOSTOK MEDIA ECHANGE LTDMTMETASTAR INVEST LLPGB2013-01-2325,846VOSTOK MEDIA EXCHANGE LTDMTMETASTAR INVEST LLPGB2013-05-3121,233VOSTOK MEDIA ECHANGE LTDMTMETASTAR INVEST LLPGB2012-10-1511,391METASTAR INVEST LLPGBWISE HOLDING LIMITEDMT2013-08-23

MaltaToday understands that a company in Malta called Wise holding limited was incorporated with the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) in May 2014, suggesting that in 2013 no monies could have been paid to this company. After a protest by its owner Artur Lukasiewicz, this newspaper could find no indiciation that any money was received from Metastar Invest.

Records show that the now dissolved Metastar was run by two “members”: Advance Developments Ltd and Corporate Solutions Ltd, also dissolved and based in Belize.

The scandal has only reinforced the perception of corruption at the heart of gas-rich Baku, where the Aliyev dynasty has held sway since the fall of communism.

Former Labour MP Joe Debono Grech, a member of the Council of Europe’s parliamentary assembly who was a rapporteur on various reports on Azerbaijan, had denied ever receiving gifts from Baku.

He also had told this newspaper that a speech at a 2015 CoE assembly was misinterpreted. “I do not condone dictatorships,” Debono Grech had told MaltaToday, adding that Azerbaijan is “not a democracy”.

But he was adamant that Azerbaijan could not be turned into another Libya.

Debono Grech, who served as co-rapporteur for six years, during which he visited Azerbaijan some 30 times, denied ever receiving gifts from the Caucasian dictatorship.

“I can only vouch for myself, but I never received any gifts,” Debono Grech said, who even as consultant to the Gozo minister had refused any remuneration for his role.

#news #Malta firms #UK shell companies news

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libertas-news · 7 years ago