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6 maltatoday | SUNDAY • 22 JANUARY 2023 NEWS POSTS FOR LAWYER WITH THE OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL (Jobsplus Vacancy No.387566, Permit Nos. 428/2022) The Office of the Attorney General Agency is inviting applications for Lawyers to carry out prosecution and related duties. The selected candidates will be employed on a full-time indefinite term basis, subject to a probation period, and will be required to work for a minimum of forty hours per week. Applicants must be in possession of a warrant to practice the profession of Advocate and, must also have at least one year experience in the practice of the profession covered by a warrant. POSTS FOR TRAINEE LAWYER WITH THE OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL (Jobsplus Vacancy No. 387556, Permit Nos. 429/2022) The Office of the Attorney General Agency is inviting applications for Trainee Lawyers to carry out prosecution and related duties. The selected candidates will be employed on a full-time indefinite term basis, subject to a probation period, and will be required to work for a minimum of forty hours per week. Applicants must be in possession of a Master of Advocacy degree, M.Adv.(Melit.). ___________________________________________________________________________ Applications must quote relevant Jobsplus Vacancy Reference, include a detailed CV, and should be addressed to: The Administration Office of the Attorney General, No. 53, Admiralty House, South Street, Valletta VLT 1101 or emailed to ag@attorneygeneral.mt and should be submitted by not later than Tuesday 31 st January 2023 at 1300 hrs. COURT NOTICE The Registrar of Civil Courts and Tribunals informs that the Civil Court, First Hall ordered the following sales by auction: Date Time Judicial Sale No Place Items 08 th February, 2023 11.00am 9/22 - EM Zammit Leasing and Investments Limited gja' J Zammit Limited (C 37945) Vs Construction Engineering Limited (C 80638) J&J Boatyard, garage number 55 limits of Għadmija Imqabba Vehicle of the make Isuzu Elf white in colour with the registration number FCN 596; and Vehicle of the make Citreon Berlingo white in colour with the registration number FCN 271. 08 th February, 2023 11.30am 10/22 - EGL Zammit Leasing and Investments Limited gja' J Zammit Limited (C 37945) Vs Farrugia Jesmark (ID 365198M) J&J Boatyard, garage number 55 limits of Għadmija Imqabba Vehicle of the make Chevrolet Spark white in colour with the Chassis number KL1MF4819DC635389. 15 th February, 2023 11.00am 12/22 – EM Buhagiar Michael (ID 410158M) Vs Gatt Tenise (ID 343675M) 'Antonmar House', Triq il-Mina ta' Hompesch, Zabbar Vehicle of the make Land Rover Freelander with registration number 'RAISA'. Further details can be obtained from the website: https://ecourts.gov.mt/onlineservices/JudicialSales The bidders taking part in the auction must present their identity card Gaetana Aquilina For the Registrar Civil Courts and Tribunals MATTHEW VELLA A Maltese judge has found in favour of Sberbank, a leading Russian bank reg- istered in Moscow under international sanctions, against a number of Maltese shipping companies owned by the Palma- li shipping group. The case involves the Istanbul-based shipping conglomerate based in Malta for the last 20 years, which is also the subject of a massive asset freeze after owner Mübariz Mansimov, an Aze- ri-Turkish billionaire, was imprisoned over links to the Gulen coup in Turkey. Mansimov was arrested back in 2021 over alleged Gulen links. He had based his shipping empire almost in entire- ty in Malta for its friendly tax laws for the maritime industry. Mansimov was arrested in one of the highest-profile detentions of a crackdown against sus- pects linked to the 2016 coup by a net- work tied to U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, which President Tayy- ip Erdogan blames for the failed putsch in which about 250 people died. In the Malta case, a judge found that Mansimov's Palmali group had car- ried out bad faith transactions in a bid to fraudulently bankrupt the shipping companies in Malta, in a bid not to repay a series of Sberbank loans, and called out the malicious scheming of Mansimov in the entire saga. Sberbank made four loans to two Rus- sian companies – Palmali Caspian Off- shore Project and Palmali Company, which loans were secured by Palmali Holding (PHL). The bank had accepted the guarantee as it was aware that PHL owned several ships, all held under sub- sidiaries in Malta such as Palmali Inter- national Holding, Palmali International Holding Two, Palmali Logistics, Palriv- er Shipping, Palocean Shipping and Pal- sea Shipping. As security for the loans, Sberbank ob- tained a personal guarantee from Man- simov, his Turkish companies, as well as 47 naval hypothecs in the Russian maritime registry over ships belonging to Palmali. Eventually, Palmali defaulted on the loan and Sberbank turned to the guar- antor to pay the €164 million balance. But this was never repaid. As a result of this, Sberbank obtained precautionary war- rants from the Maltese courts, seizing shares owned by Palmali in its direct subsidiaries, as well as opening an arbitration in London courts. But it was here that Sberbank learnt that a few days after the precautionary warrants were issued, Palmali Holding transferred all its shares in its direct subsidiaries, in favour of Mansimov's Turkish company Gunesli. This effec- tively decimated the finances of Palmali Holding. In turn, Gunesli's shares were acquired by another Mansimov-controlled com- pany, Palmali Holding AS in Turkey, just a few days after Sberbank filed pro- ceedings in Malta. Sberbank successfully argued that had been was a fraudulent transfer intended to diminish the capital of Palmali's di- rect subsidiaries, with 35 Malta-flagged ships being transferred to the indirect possession of Gunesli. Sanction-hit Russian lender obtains court victory to claw bank loans to Turkish shipping giant registered in Malta Sberbank in Malta court victory over Palmali shipping fraud