Updated 5.20pm with company statement
The German tax authorities have roped in their Maltese counterparts to chase €10 million in value added tax owed to them by Lottoland Limited, a gaming company based in Malta.
Berlin used a 2010 EU directive concerning mutual assistance for the recovery of claims relating to taxes and duties in different member states. On the basis of this directive, the Maltese tax commissioner filed proceedings in the First Hall of the Civil Court to recoup the monies.
Lottoland was established in May 2013 in Gibraltar. It is privately owned and was registered in Malta in 2019 and headquartered at the St Julian’s Business Centre. Its online presence is operated by EU Lotto Ltd, a company registered in Gibraltar as well as Deutsche Lotto and Sportwetten Limited, both companies registered in Germany.
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The state has been ordered to fork out over €42,000 in compensation to a couple who were landed with unnecessary legal costs in a lawsuit hampered by excessive court delays.
The award was the outcome of constitutional proceedings filed by a couple who had been ordered to pay €34,950 after being sued over a property-related dispute which had taken precisely “19 years and 18 days” to reach final judgment.
The origins of the dispute dated back to March 2000 when Maria Dolores Falzon had filed a civil action against the Debarro spouses about some Qormi property which the applicant claimed to hold under title of lease.
A woman who was secretly filmed having sex when she was still a minor has won over €32,000 in damages, in a civil suit judgement 14 years after the traumatic incident.
The woman had been underage at the time and in a relationship with one of the five men against whom she filed the civil suit, seeking damages for the psychological trauma the incident caused her.
She was secretly filmed while having sex with her then-boyfriend and the compromising footage was subsequently copied onto CDs which were put into circulation via a DVD store.
One of those copies ultimately ended up at the minor’s home and the police had subsequently filed criminal charges against the five men, who had admitted to charges of producing and circulating the indecent material involving the underage girl.