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SUNDAY • 15 OCTOBER 2023 • ISSUE 1250 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY
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A complicated reality
between the political
rhetoric and what can be
achieved
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Garden of Eden hall
within protected Wied
Babu to make way for
12 bungalows with pool
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Israel - Hamas war Set for approval
'No way to lead'
Romanian crime feud led to
a gruesome Malta murder
A Romanian family was operating a pros-
titution ring in the heart of Paceville,
where one family member killed British
thug Joseff Rivas.
The story starts on 5 December, as three
men meet for a hot drink at the popular
Big G's in St Julian's. The men, all Roma-
nian, were approached by another group
of men. They shook hands, and moments
later a fight broke out. Rivas was stabbed
28 times with a penknife.
The fight stemmed from a Romanian
family feud on profits from a prostitution
racket they were operating from the heart
of Paceville. The family has been linked to
transnational criminal activity, from drugs
to human trafficking, working effectively
as an organised crime group.
A new investigation by reporters from
MaltaToday, RISE Romania, OCCRP, and
researchers from the Daphne Caruana
Galizia Foundation, sheds light on this Ro-
manian crime racket and how it operated
from Malta.
maltatoday
FULL RESULTS PAGES 13 - 15
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Joseff Rivas (left) died last December during a fatal argument in Paceville. Ilie Constantin, Ionut Iulian Tanase (both pictured right) and Andrei Dan Tanase
have been charged with his murder. But it's Florian Razvan Tanase (centred) who lies at the centre of the feud.
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Gzira mayor Conrad
Borg Manchè, who
just resigned from
the PL, opens up
on Robert Abela
INTERVIEW MT2
