Letter from ‘James’, using an email address of james@fintelegram.com, claiming a criminal complaint has been filed in Malta due to OffshoreAlert publishing “confidential information”, which, in reality, was a publicly-available regulatory notice by the Malta Financial Services Authority that it had cancelled the registration of E&S Consultancy Limited, a corporate services provider whose directors were Christian Ellul, Karl Schranz, and Mariella Baldacchino. Ellul, who is a lawyer, and Schranz, who is an accountant, were later banned from Malta’s financial services industry for what the regulator described as their “lack of honesty and integrity”.

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