Friday 17 April 2009

Prisoner transfer agreement

A source within the Scottish Government informs me that the prisoner transfer agreement concluded between the United Kingdom and Libya on 17 November 2008 will be ratified on a date between 27 and 30 April 2009. At any time thereafter an application could be made by Abdelbaset Megrahi for repatriation to Libya. I have no information on whether it is likely that an application will be made and, if so, when. The decision on whether to grant any such application rests with the Scottish (not the UK) Government; and the Scottish First Minister is on record as saying that repatriation should not be granted to anyone convicted in respect of the Lockerbie atrocity. A cynic might, however, regard it as interesting that the prisoner transfer agreement will become operative just at the time that Mr Megrahi's current appeal is due to start; and that an application for transfer would require Mr Megrahi to abandon the appeal.

4 comments:

  1. The mysterious premature visit of an unknown UK Officer's to Malta in 1989.
    At the trial in Kamp van Zeist was revealed that an unknown UK Officer was in July or August 1989, before Malta had granted international legal assistance to Britain in Malta. His investigations were in relation with the recovery of a babygro which could be related back to the island of Malta.

    MEBO's inqueries show that this UK Officer visited the Yorkie Clothing Company in Malta. After their examination of a piece of a remnant from a Yorkie troucer (allegedly found in Lockerbie) he was told that 20 pairs of such troucers had been delivered on the 18th of Novermber 1988 to the boutique "Mary's House". (Prod. delivery note 424)

    If the unknown officer had visited Anthony und Paul Gauci before is at the moment unknown. Anyway afterwards the officer visited the whole sale company "Big Ben" with a blue remnant. This company said to have delivered such blue babygrows (from the company PVC) to Mary's House on the 22th of September 1988. (Label 439, Invoice Prod. 488) Paul Gauci was Managing Director of "Big Ben" at that time !

    With great probability the unknown UK officer had covertly contacted the Gauci brothers to prepare the ground for the Gauci brothers collaboration in the "Lockerbie affair, prior the also very questionable interrogation of Police Officer Henry Woods Bell between September 1 - 8, 1989".

    Excerpt from the book Scotbom: Evidence and the Lockerbie Investigation by US Task Force and FBI Special Agent Richard A. Marquise :

    "By late August 1989, RARDE had identified a number of "category one" items which they opined had been in or near the primary cause of the explosion. These items included the baby's romper suit, some Yorkie brand trousers, a cardigan sweater, a herringbone patterned sport jacker and a pajama top.
    Little information had been received from the intelligence community. While no one gave it much consideration at the time, no intelligence agency played an active role in this conference or the earlier one in Scotland".

    In none of the court protocols the name of the unknown officer is mentioned and he question remains open: Was this unknown officer an agent of an intelligence agency?

    by Edwin and Mahnaz Bollier, MEBO Ltd, Switzerland

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  2. MEBO important: Mr. Paul Gauci was explaining that he were in business along with its brother Anthony Gauci in "Mary's House". Ex Witness no.598, Paul Gauci's untrue statement in the Court Kamp van Zeist, about the delivery of Babygros. Excerpts:
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    "Q-- (Paul Gauci) Are you the managing director of a company in Malta? A--Yes, I am. Q--What's the name of that company?
    A--BIG BEN.-----------

    Q--Did you, as a wholesaler, distribute baby garments? A--Yes, we have distributed those garments. Q--Did you have an arrangement to receive these garments from a particular company? A--Yes, we did. Q--What was that company called? A--PVC. -------

    Q--Would you look, please, at an item that will be shown to you, Label 439. Do you recognise that? A--Yes, I do. Q--What is it? A--This is a Babygro we used to distribute. Q--Is that the type of Babygro that you received from the company PVC? A--One of the types, because we used to have many of these.-------

    Q--Was one of the shops to which you distributed a shop called Mary's House in Tower Road in Sliema? A--Yes, it was. Q--What was the name of the proprieter of that shop? -------

    A--The name was Edward Gauci (MEBO, his father)
    Q--Could we have Production No. 448 on the screen, please. Could we move on to the next image, please. Do you see on the screen before you an invoice? A--Yes, I do. Q--And is that an invoice from your company, BIG BEN Wholesale, to Edward Gauci of Mary's House, 63 Tower Road , Sliema? A--Yes , it is the same invoice. Q--And is it dated 22 September 1988. A--Yes, it is. Q--And does it include an order from you to Mr. Gauci for a quantity of baby goods, fleecy? A--Yes, it is. Q-- And was the order for 12 such items? A--Yes, it was.

    Q--Were these baby goods, fleecy, the type of Babygro that you've been looking at today? A--Yes, they were the same. Q--Could we have Production 181, image 139, please. Do you see that's a photograph of a Babygro of a similar type to the one you've been shown? A--Yes, I do. Q--Could you close that, please, and look at photograph 140.-----------

    Q--Do you still have before you the Babygro itself? Will you just open it up and look at the collar and at the label that's attached to the collar? A--Yes. Q--Will you confirm that the Babygro that you have before you has these details? It's the same Babygro? A--Yes, I do confirm. You can see that it's a Primark label. Age, 12 to 18 months. A--Yes."
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    The contrary statement in Kamp van Zeist, from managing director Mr. Satariano at 1988 of the company, called PCV Plastics Limited in San Gran
    Industrial Estate in Malta.
    Ex Witness number 607, Mr. Dennis Satariano. Excerpts:
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    "Q-- Were you formerly the managing director of a company called PCV Plastics Limited in San Gran Industrial Estate in Malta? A--Yes, I was a manufacturing director.
    Q--And did that company produce a range of clothing for babies?
    A--That's right. Q--Did that include Babygro-type garments? A--That's right, yes. Q--And did you manufacture these? A--That's right. Yes, we manufactured these. Q--What was the distribution of these
    items? A--We produced mainly for the export market. Mainly for the British market. Q--And was that for any particular companies in Britain?

    A-- We had our distribution company in London under the name of Hellane, where Hellane used to bring us orders, we manufactured, and we exported to destination as advised by Hellane. Q--Were you also familiar with a company in Malta called BIG BEN?

    A--Yes. Q--And were they a wholesale company? A--That's right. Q--Did you supply Big Ben with Babygros? A--We did not supply it, but we had a contract with Big Ben, where he was the only purchaser to buy all our leftovers or seconds from the factory and resell according to his requirements. Primark Would you look, please, at Label Number 439. A--Yes. Q--Do you see that that's a Babygro type of garment? A--That's right, yes. Q--What colour is it?

    A--This is blue. This is a blue garment. Q--Could we have on the screen, please, Production 181, at photograph 139. A--It looks the same, yes.
    Q--And if you look at the police label that's attached to the Babygro, do you see on it the number DC 34? A--That's right".

    by Edwin and Mahnaz Bollier, MEBO Ltd, Switzerland

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  3. Well put.

    Robert Forrester.

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  4. A further proof that the sale of dresses in Anhony Gauci "Mary's House" took undoubtedly place on Wednesday, 23th of November 1988 by a supposedly Libyan buyer:

    Gauci told Bollier, that the 2 pieces of pyjamas, label "John Mallia", were the last two pyjamas he had sold to a Libyan in his shop. On the other day, the 24th of November 1988, he ordered at the company "John Mallia" additionally 8 pieces of the same pyjamas. The 8 pyjamas were delivered on the 25th of November 1988 with the calculation/delivery note, dated 25th of November 1988 to Gauci' s Mary' s House at Sliema Malta. Prod. 477-1.

    The day after Wednesday, December 7, December 8, 1988 was an official public holiday (Immaculate Conception Day) and the "John
    Mallia" company was closed.
    But the day after November 23, November 24, 1988 was not an official public holiday, the company "John Mallia" was open.

    MEBO:
    Mr. Abdelbaset al Megrahi was not in Malta on Wednesday, 23th of November 1988, thus Mr. Megrahi is definetely not the buyer of the dresses !

    More information on URL: www.lockerbie.ch

    by Edwin and Mahnaz Bollier, MEBO Ltd, Switzerland

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