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In a further twist to the land scam story that is being serialised in MaltaToday, two companies have filed a human rights case over their land deals.
Champs Mediterrain Ltd and Terra Mediterranea Ltd filed their case, claiming their fundamental human rights were violated in a case brought against the Directors of Lands and the Joint Office the Attorney General and the Registrar of Lands.
The companies are claiming that certain sections of the law – sections 5 and 7 of the law governing ecclesiastical properties and section 19 of the Land Registration Act - are in violation of their fundamental human rights and null and void.
The companies said they had purchased land in an area known as Ghalqa ta’ Giakonda in Swieqi in 1992 and 1993, but in May 2003, the Director of the Joint Office, acting on behalf of the government had submitted an application for the registration of the land with backdated effect from February 1993.
The registration took place on the basis that the land used to belong to the Church and had been transferred to the government in terms of the agreement reached with the Holy See.
MaltaToday’s story recounts how people purchased property from Terra Mediterranea on the land at Ghalqa ta’ Giakonda and are now suing Terra Mediterranea Director Raymond Aquilina after being informed by the Lands Department that the land on which their dwellings were built was transferred from the Church to the State as part of the Church-State agreement.
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