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7 NEWS maltatoday | SUNDAY • 23 JULY 2023 COURT NOTICE The Registrar, Civil Courts and Tribunals notifies that the First Hall of the Civil Court ordered the sale by Judicial Auction of the following property to be held in room numbered 78, nearby the Courts Archives, Level -1, Courts of Justice, Republic Street, Valletta. Date Time Judicial Sale No Property 01 st August, 2023 10.30am 2/23 - EGL Alfaran Trailers Maintenance & Logistics Services Limited (C 31341) Vs Emanuel Baldacchino & Co Limited (C 44700) The property which consists of a divided portion of air, situated in the proposed groundfloor level, with a gross floor area of circa 97.50sqm, with direct access from Triq Qrejten, in Pieta, and is instead situated in part by the site previously occupied from the tenement officially numbered 75 and which was named Gese Redentur, in the said Street, which air will be developed into a maisonette and garage according to the permit PA/06672/21, excluding the airspace above the proposed maisonette, which air is bounded with a public road from the West North West direction, free and unencumbered and is valued at €90,000. 01 st August, 2023 11.00am 38/15 - EM Banif Bank (Malta) plc (C 41030) Vs Entertainments Limited (C 25687) et Maisonette over three floors, with number 31, including its relative airspace, in Triq Anastasio Cuschieri previously known as Triq Borg il-Gdida, Birkirkara, overlying third party property situated on the groundfloor level and therefore the street level, with access from the stairs from street level, free and unencumbered and is valued at €160,000. Appartment internally marked number 12, situated on the second floor, forming part of a block named Saint Mary Flats, in Triq Andrew Cunningham, Qawra, Saint Paul's Bay, accessible from the common area of the block, and has in common with the other apartments in the same block the main door, the entrance hall, the stairs, and the staircase, the passenger lift, the drainage system, and the use of the roof, and this according to the conditions resulting in the contract dated eighteenth November of the year 18.11.2002 in the acts of Notary John Spiteri, bounded South East with the said street, North West with property of George Borg and West with property of Francis Gauci and others, free and unencumbered and is valued at €65,000. 03 rd August, 2023 11.00am 12/21 - EM Belair Developments and Construction Limited (C 1840) Vs Fashion Retailers Limited (C 36172) et The temporary utile dominium for the period of 137 years that started from the 15.12.2000, of the corner shop, by entrance with civic number 44, named "Salsa", formerly "Wallis", formerly "Playlife" formerly "Benetton" in Triq it-Torri, Sliema, having two entrances at civic numbers 1 and 1A in Triq Tigne, bounded by two public roads; with Triq it-Torri on the North West and Triq Tigne on the South West, underlying third party property, on groundfloor level of an urban block built on four levels (excluding the washrooms) with a total (gross) area of circa 103 m2, with all its right and appurtenances, which is situated in an obligatory registration area and which is registered by title 59000113 and the last time that the temporary utile dominium was transferred was by the act of the 26.02.2021 in the acts of Notary Anton Borg, and is subject to the annual and temporary ground rent of €32,976, which groundrent is revisable in the manner as indicated in the act of the 12.08.1987 in the acts of the Notary Pierre Attard, and was last revised on the 14.12.2012, otherwise free and unencumbered, however leased as a clothes shop to third parties by means of an act dated 08.06.2004 in the acts of Notary Dr. Victor John Bisazza by the respondent society J.L. & Sons Limited to Dorkins Limited society with the registration number C 21098 and is valued at €950,000. 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 of Civil Courts and Tribunals MATTHEW VELLA THE fate of five workers involved in the construc- tion tragedy that claimed the life of 19-year-old Jean Paul Sofia remains unknown, with both the police and the Occupational Health and Safety Authority refusing to name the other victims. The five men – three Albanian nationals aged 53, 24, and 21, and a 69-year-old Bosnian and a 43-year- old Maltese national – have never had their iden- tities revealed despite being rescued alive from the debris of the Corradino building that fell apart like a pack of cards on the fateful day. Both the Malta police and the OHSA this week re- fused to reveal the identities of these men. Although it is not customary for the police to issue the names of victims in accidents, the OHSA insisted that it was not at liberty of divulging any information which is the subject of a magisterial inquiry. The independent politician Arnold Cassola has now written to Ombudsman Joseph Zammit McKeon, who will chair a public inquiry into the construction incident, to reveal the names of the other victims. "These people were mentioned on the day of the tragedy, then they went off-radar. The police nev- er gave any updates on their medical conditions, as they usually do. Unconfirmed reports claim one of the victims suffered blindness in one eye, anoth- er lost a leg – all five are claimed to have received a cash payment not to speak out, and the foreign workers were sent back home," Cassola told Zam- mit McKeon. Cassola asked Zammit McKeon to ensure his in- quiry identifies the workers, summons them for the inquiry, investigate the reason for the media black- out from police and the OHSA, and whoever was responsible for withholding the information or paid out any settlement cash. The public inquiry into the Sofia incident was for- mally announced by Prime Minister Robert Abela last Monday after backtracking on his previous po- sition against such an exercise. The terms of reference of the inquiry have not yet been published but they are expected to give the three-member panel wide discretion to probe any aspect linked to the Corradino construction site and how the building sector is regulated. Sofia inquiry: police, OHSA insist on blackout on five workers Jean Paul Sofia death: Court dismisses appeal challenging validity of suspects' arrest Corradino building collapse: Photo released by the police showing one of the five injured workers being brought to safety by officers from the civil protection in December 2022 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Two of the suspects attempted to challenge the validity of their arrest, only to have their request dismissed by court. Matthew Schembri and Kurt Buhagiar's lawyers contested their clients' arrest, in proceedings against Attorney General Victoria Buttigieg, claiming they were not provided with the full evidence that led to the arrests. However, magistrate Ian Farru- gia rejected this appeal in a decree issued on Saturday afternoon. The judicial protest was filed by lawyers Franco Debono, Ar- thur Azzopardi, and Jacob Magri, claiming that Attorney General Victoria Buttigieg is "withholding evidence" from them and the po- lice. The two men in question had ac- quired a plot of land at Corradino Industrial Estate under a govern- ment lease and were constructing a timber factory on the site. On Friday, at around 8:30 pm, Schembri and Buhagiar were ar- rested together with three other suspects: Architect Adriana Zam- mit, contractor Miromir Miloso- vic, and his wife. The lawyers also filed a court ap- plication requesting court to treat the proceedings with urgency. During their hearing on Satur- day morning, the defence con- tended that this limited disclosure did not constitute sufficient mate- rial evidence, as the conclusions merely reflected the inquiring magistrate's opinion. This lack of evidence, they as- serted, hindered their ability to adequately advise their clients during interrogations. In his ruling, the magistrate stat- ed that the inquiry report pro- duced by the magistrate satisfies the criteria for adequate disclo- sure to the defence. He clarified that while the police did not currently possess all the evidence compiled during the in- quiry, the Attorney General had access to it and would make it available to the defence at the ap- propriate time. He emphasized that the incom- plete access to material evidence did not render the initial or on- going arrest of Schembri and Bu- hagiar illegal, and therefore, he rejected the defence's request. Representing the prosecu- tion were Police Inspector Paul Camilleri, assisted by lawyers Philip Galea Farrugia and Abigail Caruana Vella from the Attorney General's Office. Lawyers Franco Debono, Arthur Azzopardi, and Jacob Magri ap- peared on behalf of Buhagiar and Schembri. The presiding magistrate over- seeing the hearing was Ian Farru- gia.