Court Notices published in Govt. Gazette No. 20,719 of 14th October 2021

ARB/C079/2021 – SEIZING AND FREEZING ORDER

IT IS BEING NOTIFIED that by a decree dated 7th October, 2021, given by the Court of Magistrates (Malta) as a Court of Criminal Inquiry (Magistrate Dr Claire L. Stafrace Zammit, LLD). Compilation Number 650/2021, in the case:

The Police

(Inspector Alfredo Mangion)

Versus

JAROLINA DEL SOCORRO MENDEZ BETHANCOURT, unemployed, 25 years, daughter of Jorge Mendez Mendez and Alba Nidia Bethancourt Reyes, born in Dominican Republic on the 15th August, 1996, without a fixed address in Malta and holder of Spanish identity card bearing number 02558749E.

ORDERED the attachment in the hands of third parties in general of all moneys and other movable property due to or pertaining or belonging to JAROLINA DEL SOCORRO MENDEZ BETHANCOURT and prohibits the accused from transferring, pledging, hypothecating or otherwise changing or disposing of any immovable or movable property owned or otherwise held by them, in terms of Article 36 of the Proceeds of Crime Act, Cap. 621 of the Laws of Malta.

ORDERED the attachment in the hands of third parties in general all moneys and other movable property due or pertaining or belonging to JAROLINA DEL SOCORRO MENDEZ BETHANCOURT and prohibits the accused from transferring, pledging, hypothecating or otherwise disposing of any movable or immovable property, in terms of Article 22A of the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Cap. 101 of the Laws of Malta, Article 5 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, Cap. 373 of the Laws of Malta and Article 23A of the Criminal Code, Cap. 9 of the Laws of Malta.

The Court AUTHORISED the said accused to receive the amount of thirteen thousand, nine hundred and seventy-six euro and twenty-four cents (€13,976.24) per year, after the accused indicates with a note from where she is perceiving this money.

Any person who acts in contravention of the court order as mentioned in Article 36, Article 22A, Article 5, and Article 23A referred to above shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction be liable to a fine (multa) not exceeding twelve thousand euro (€12,000), or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding twelve (12) months, or to both such fine and imprisonment.

Any transfer or other disposal of any property made in contravention of the said Court order shall be null and without effect at law.

Acting Director, Asset Recovery Bureau

By a decree given on the 27th January, 2021, by the Civil Court First Hall, the Court ordered that the extract hereunder mentioned be published for the purpose of service according to Article 187(3) of the Code of Organisation and Civil Procedure (Cap. 12).

By decree given by the Civil Court, First Hall, on the 24th August, 2021, on the application of HSBC Bank Malta plc (C3177), Thursday, 18th November, 2021, at eleven in the morning (11.00 a.m.), has been fixed for the Sale by Auction, to be held in room number 78, nearby the Courts Archives, Level -1, Courts of Justice, Triq ir-Repubblika, Valletta, of the following property:

Temporary utile dominium of the terraced house, officially numbered sixty-eight (68) built on a portion divided of land plot number four hundred and thirty-nine (439) in Triq Dun Amabile Sisner, Pembroke, as subject to annual and perpetual ground rent of one hundred and twenty-one euro and thirteen-euro cent (€121.13) per year. The ground rent ending the twenty-fifth year period from the sixth (6th) March, one thousand, nine hundred and eighty eight (1988) is revisable every twenty-five years and will be increased by 15% of annual ground rent as described in the public contract in the acts of Notary Anthony Grech Trapani dated seventeen (17th) November, one thousand nine hundred and ninety nine (1999), by which the said property was acquired from the Housing Authority, valued at seven hundred, twenty eight thousand euro and eight hundred and seventy five euro (€728,875)

The said tenement is the property of Curmi Martin (ID 559564M).

N.B. The said tenement will be sold as described in the acts of judicial sales number 39/2018.

Gaetana Aquilina

For the Registrar, Civil Courts and Tribunals