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mately $500,000 from Malta to the United States, large amounts of
which Mr. Mifsud claims his parents gave to him both during his
father's lifetime and after his father died, to be implausible,
inconsistent with and not supported by objective evidence in the
record, and not credible. The record establishes that in 1951
Malta was under English exchange controls which limited the
ability of Maltese persons to bring currency out of the country.
The export of currency from Malta in 1951 in an amount of pounds
or any other form of currency equal to approximately $500,000
would have had a serious impact on Malta's economy and the policy
of its Government and would have been required by the English
exchange controls to have been documented. Malta has no official
record that an export from Malta took place in 1951 of currency
in an amount of pounds or any other form of currency equal to
approximately $500,000. The record also establishes that in
1951, when Mr. Mifsud and his father emigrated from Malta to the
United States, Malta, which had been devastated during World War
II by German air strikes, was a nation of small shopkeepers,
dockworkers, and bureaucrats, with a small Anglo-Maltese ruling
class. Estimates of Maltese national income in the postwar
period ranged from $28.2 million to $48.3 million, and the median
wage for private workers in Malta was about $11 per week, or $572
per year.
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