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maltatoday, SUNDAY, 27 DECEMBER 2015 12 News 12 News 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 the corridors of the Courts of Justice, Republic Street, Valletta. Date and Time Judicial Sale No Property 12 th January 2016 47/14 – 11.30am PP Apartament officially numbered two (2) on the first floor in a block of apartments numbered thirty five (35) named 'Falcon Forge', subject to an annual ground rent of thirty Euros and fifty four cents only (!30.54),accesible from Triq It- Torri, Msida. The tenement includes an undivided share of the common parts that provide access to the appartments that is the door, entrance, stairs and lift. The property includes the right to hold a water tank on the roof of the same block valued at Two Hundred and twenty thousand Euros (! 220,000). 12 th January 2016 101/13 – 12.00pm PP The following undivided portions of land in Gozo,limits of G"ajnsielem forming part of a land known as 'Th San #wann', Portion of land marked number three (3) measuring circa one hundred sixty eight metres squared (168m 2 ), bordering from the north with a projected private street, from the East with a property of Three Jays and from the west with plot number four (4) property of Small Properties Limited, the right of a passage over that portion of land measuring circa three hundred and forty two metres squared (342m 2 ) marked in blue, an undivided share of 1/37 of a land projected for a street marked in blue of circa seven hundred and thirty three metres squared (733m 2 ), an undivided share of 1/37 of a land projected for a street marked in pink of circa three hundred and seventy eight metres squared (378m 2 ), an undivided share of 1/37 of a land projected for a street marked in purple of circa thirteen metres squared (13m 2 ) and an undivided share of 1/37 of a lane marked in green, free and unencumbered valued at one hundred and fifty thousand euros (!150,000). Portion of land marked number four (4) measuring circa one hundred sixty eight metres squared (168m 2 ), bordering from the north with a projected private street, from the East with plot number three (3) property of Small Properties Limited,from the South with plot number six (6), property of Three Jays Limited and from the other sides with properties of Mariella Mercieca right of a passage over that portion of land measuring circa three hundred and forty two metres squared (342m 2 ) marked in blue, an undivided share of 1/37 of a land projected for a street marked in blue of circa seven hundred and thirty three metres squared (733m 2 ), ), an undivided share of 1/37 of a land projected for a street marked in pink of circa three hundred and seventy eight metres squared (378m 2 ), an undivided share of 1/37 of a land projected for a street marked in purple of circa thirteen metres squared (13m 2 ) and an undivided share of 1/37 of a lane marked in green, free and unencumbered valued at one hundred and fifty thousand euros (!150,000). Portion of land marked number twelve (12) measuring circa one hundred and sixty five metres squared (165m 2 ), bordering from the west with a projected private street, from the North with properties of Mariella Mercieca and from the South with property of Three Jays Limited, an undivided share of 1/37 of a land projected for a street marked in blue of circa seven hundred and thirty three metres squared (733m 2 ), an undivided share of 1/37 of a land projected for a street marked in pink of circa three hundred and seventy eight metres squared (378m 2 ) and an undivided share of 1/37 of a lane marked in green, free and unencumbered, valued at one hundred and ten thousand Euros( !110,000 ). Portion of land marked number twenty seven (27) measuring circa one hundred sixty eight metres squared (168m 2 ), bordering from the East with a projected private street ,from the North with plot number twenty six (26) property of Three Jays. Ltd and from The South with plot number twenty eight (28) property of Small Properties Limited, an undivided share of 1/37 of a land projected for a street marked in blue of circa seven hundred and thirty three metres squared (733m 2 ), an undivided share of 1/37 of a land projected for a street marked in pink of circa three hundred and seventy eight metres squared (378m 2 ) and an undivided share of 1/37 of a lane marked in green, free and unencumbered, valued at one hundred and thirty five thousand Euros ( !135,000 ). Portion of land marked number twenty eight (28) measuring circa one hundred sixty eight metres squared (168m 2 ), bordered from West and East with a projected private street,from the North with plot number twenty seven (27) property of Small Properties Limited an undivided share of 1/37 from every part of land projected for a street and an undivided share of 1/37 of a lane, free and ununcumbered and an undivided share of 1/37 of a land projected for a street marked in blue of circa seven hundred and thirty three metres squared (733m 2 ), an undivided share of 1/37 of a land projected for a street marked in pink of circa three hundred and seventy eight metres squared (378m 2 ) and an undivided share of 1/37 of a lane marked in green, free and unencumbered valued at one hundred and forty eight thousand Euros (!148,000). 21 st January 2016 46/15 – 11.30am PP The Property named DVM Showroom officially numbered two hundred sixty four and two hundred sixty five (264/265) in Triq Fleur de Lys, Birkirkara. This property consists of a block of offices on two levels, a cellar under the ground floor level, a washroom and a roof with its airspace in the second level. The ground floor level is subject to an annual and perpetual ground rent of three Euros and eighty two cents (!3.82), and the first floor including its own airspace is subject to an annual and perpetual ground rent of seven Euros and sixty five cents (!7.65). The property is valued at three hundred and ten thousand Euros (!310,000). 28 th January 2016 5/14 – 10.30am PP Penthouse, with its own airspace, number six (6), located on the left hand side on the third (3) floor level when facing the block with the letter 'A' named 'Oak Leaf Apartments', in Main Street, Mosta. The said penthouse is overlying apartment property of successor in title of Ba"rija Properties Development Limited and including the uninterrupted perpetual use of the common parts of the said block, including staircase, stairwell, lift well, lift, shafts, drains, landings, corridors, main hallway and entrance, and main door, and internal courtyards of the complex. The rest of the apartments in the block have access to that penthouse roof to install a water tank, satellite dish or television aerial common motors air conditioning and in some cases installation of solar heaters, with their respective right of access to it, after giving purchaser reasonable prior notice, for the purposes of maintenance and repairs of such services and utilities. The penthouse enjoys and is subject to active and passive servitudes resulting from its position, otherwise free and unencumbered with all its rights and appurtenances valued at one hundred and sixteen thousand and eight hundred euro (!116,800) 28 th January 2016 21/14 – 11.00am PP Tenement numbered one hundred and fifty B (150B), in Triq il- Kappillan Magri, Mellie"a. The property has a width of circa four point two (4.2) metres and a length of circa thirteen point five (13.5) metres. The property is free and unencumbered valued at forty five thousand Euros (!45,000). Tenement named 'Mellie"a Garage' numbered one hundred and fifty one (151) fi Triq Borg Olivier, Mellie"a. The property has a facade on the street of circa five (5) metres and on the back has a width of circa eight point five (8.5) metres and a length of circa twenty seven point five (27.5) metres subject to a lease valued at eighty five thousand Euros(!85,000). Tenement named 'Josephine House' numbered one hundred and forty nine (149) in Triq Borg Olivier, Mellie"a. The property has a facade on the street of circa seven (7) metres and on the back has a width of circa nine point five (9.5) metres from the first floor, and a length of circa sixteen point six (16.6) metres. The property is free and unencumbered valued at one hundred and eighty five thousand Euros (!185,000). 28 th January 2016 54/14 – 11.30am EM The tenement number thirty four (34), named 'Simon', Triq l-Annunzjata, Tarxien, subject to annual and perpetual ground rent of one euro and sixteen cents (!1.16c) offers should begin from forty eight thousand (!48,000). 28 th January 2016 57/15 – 12.00pm PP Apartment without its airspace shell form internally numbered one (1) ground level in a block without number and name and built on plot number forty four (44) in Triq il-%bit mill-Arju, Kalkara with all its rights and appurtenances, bounded on West by property of George Falzon, East with property unofficially numbered forty- five (45) and North with property unofficially number nine (9) exempted from any payment rates of future perpetual ground rent. The property enjoys access servitudes and uninterrupted perpetual use and access from the common part and services of the block from which the property forms part. Furthermore on the high roof the buyers or successors in title shall enjoy the right of installation and maintenance of water tank of a capacity not exceeding five hundred liters (500L), the right of installation and maintenance of solar water heater not greater than three hundred liters (300L) and the right of installing a satellite dish that does not exceed one point one meters diameters (1.1m) and/or aerial and both must be common with the rest of the block . Further details can be obtained from the website: http://www.justiceservices.gov.mt/courtservices/JudicialSales/search.aspx The bidders taking part in the auction must present their identity card. Rudolph Marmara' For the Registrar of Civil Courts and Tribunals Supping with Gaffarena IN the world of politics, a man like Joe Gaffarena was a reliable political supporter. With land and liquidity aplenty, the Gaffarena family's business interests had to be served so that they could keep some political wheels in motion. But it was not until 2015 that the modus operandi of Maltese politicians and that of Joe Gaffarena became truly known. It started with news that Gaffarena scion Marco had benefited from a controversially "fast-track expropriation" of a Valletta palazzino he owned: the government offices of the Building Industry Consultative Council, by happenstance led by a family friend of sorts, architect Charles Buhagiar, the Labour MP. Gaffarena made headlines when The Times revealed that he had been granted €1.65 million in a land and cash compensation, for just a 50% stake in the Old Mint Street building that houses the BICC. The expropriation was controversial because Gaffarena originally took ownership of 25% of the building in 2007 for just €23,294 – and was compensated €822,500 in cash and lands in Janu- ary 2015. But in February 2015 he had also managed to purchase another 25% portion of the building for €139,762, and was paid another €822,500 in lands and cash in April 2015. He also personally selected the lands to be given as compensation, all of which were situated close to land he already owned or leased, or which he intended to develop, adding even more value to the property he received in compensation. The Office of the Prime Minister moved to clear the heavy air with two inquiries, one from the government's own internal audit and investi- gations department (IAID) and the other by the Auditor General. The IAID report, MaltaToday later reported, revealed that the land granted to Gaffarena as payment for the Valletta property expropriated from him, was in excess of a legal 30% ceiling which such land valuations cannot exceed: the investigation was handed over to the NAO, but it also discovered a trend of excessive valuations of land which may have been ongoing since 2008. In the Gaffarena case, the land transferred was in excess of a 30% ceiling set in the Disposal of Government Land Act: that in land exchanges, the value of the government land to be given cannot exceed 30% of the value of the expropriated land. From then on, the role of Gaffarena senior as a well- known sponsor of a number of Labour candidates, es- pecially in the sixth and seventh electoral districts – as well as Nationalist candidates – became framed in the political story of his notorious petrol pump station in Qormi, which became associated with a number of il- legalities that were finally only sanctioned under the Labour administration after re-election. Joseph Gaffarena was found to be in business with various members of the political establishment on both sides of the divide: he carried out a €256,000 property transaction with former PN secretary-gen- eral Joe Saliba, and went into the healthcare business with former Labour MP Louis Buhagiar. More Gaffarena associations came by the way of simple favours: the father of Nationalist whip David Agius, a bird trapper, was granted use of Gaffarena's land for a trapping site in fields at Tas-Salib, limits of Rabat. People like PN deputy leader for party affairs, Beppe Fenech Adami, turned out to have been a former law- yer for the Gaffarena family, despite his vocal criticism of the controversial Old Mint Street expropriations. Gaffarena's son Marco also enjoyed a former busi- ness relationship with Labour MP Joseph M. Sammut in International Tobacco Malta, now defunct; Sam- mut had represented Gaffarena in a case before the Rural Leases Control Board, and another case in the civil court. Likewise, former PL president and current chairman of the Grand Harbour Regeneration Corpo- ration Stefan Zrinzo Azzopardi also represented Gaf- farena in the same Rural Leases Control Board case. And finally came MaltaToday's story that cost former Nationalist minister Joe Cassar's parliament seat: Gaffarena had paid for him an €8,150 bill for construction works at his Dingli farmhouse, proven by receipts published by this newspaper that sent the Damoclean sword falling. Days earlier he had claimed in parliament that his family was being threatened by "blackmail" and that he was the victim of a frame-up, suggesting that he had not approved Gaffarena's do- nations. But the disclosure that so many MPs and politicians had relationships with Gaffarena, reconfirmed not just the public's fears of the involvement of the politi- cal class with businessmen, but also the deep-rooted clientelism that crossed the political divide. Joe Gaffarena hailed from Qormi and worked closely with various Nationalist politicians, notably George Hyzler and John Dalli. Gaffarena's controversial petrol station in Qormi was granted a permit in 2006, two years before a general election. But in September 2008 it faced an enforcement order for illegal works on 80% of the construction. The enforcement order was issued three months after Joe Saliba stepped down from the post of secretary-general. MEPA sealed off access to the entrance, given that Gaffarena had gone beyond the 2006 permit. But the J. Gaff Service Station still opened for business in summer 2009 and was again closed down by MEPA in September that year. An application filed to sanction the existing works was refused by MEPA. But under Labour in 2014 the Gaffarena family was granted a temporary clear- ance to reopen its petrol station in Qormi against a €500,000 bank guarantee. Gaffarena had said that his eight children had suffered "hardship" for five years due the station's closure. In reality, Gaffarena's family had found other ways to thrive, thanks to their political alliances. In 2015, one name became synonymous with the demi-monde of benefactors and donors: Gaffarena Pensive: Joe Gaffarena