A man who in 1981 was robbed of massive plots of land in Fgura by a clique of 'businessmen' acting together with then Labour Minister Lorry Sant has been awarded €50,000 in moral compensation with the possibility that he would get a further €1 million in compensation after another court judgement. The case of Joseph Borg goes back to a few days before the 1981 general election when, in front of a public notary, he was forced through threats and violence to transfer his property – half of 23 plots in Fgura – to Piju Camilleri, at the time works manager at Mr Sant's ministry and described by the court as "a smokescreen for the late Labour minister". In 1989 he had instituted a court case to take back his property. The court had found in his favour and said that what had happened was part of the institutionalised corruption surrounding the Labour government of the 1980s and particularly the rampant systematic land grab corruption led by Mr Sant. Apart from Mr Camilleri, there were other collaborators, including Joe Pace and Victor Balzan. However, when Mr Borg and his company instituted a second court case in order to make the culprits pay, the court presided by the late Judge...
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