A corner of Polynesia off the coast of Sardinia . It is the island of Mal di Ventre , purchased many years ago by the English engineer Rex Miller to build a villa there and then sold to a holding company of the British Virgin Islands (BVI), "Legacy Air Limited", behind which there would be the British billionaire of Cypriot origin Yiannakis "John" Christodoulou. An island whose ownership is still a mystery, however , as the mayor of Cabras, Andrea Abis, tells Corriere today. "We don't know anything about the new ownership, nobody showed up," he specifies.
A real jewel, the island off the coast of Oristano, an integral part of the protected marine area of the Sinis Peninsula. T he "true" name is Malu 'Entu , or the island of cursed winds, which dangerously swell the sea in some seasons. And it is no coincidence that the seabed is a cemetery of wrecks: many boats but also ancient Roman and Spanish ships. Precisely in this area, at a depth of 27 metres, a 36-metre Roman wreck was discovered, sunk between 80 and 50 BC with two thousand ingots of lead, and the Joyce, a merchant ship from Cagliari, sank here in 1973. Malu 'Entu, according to one thesis, officially became Mal di Ventre due to the incorrect translation from the dialect of the Genoese cartographers.
Then there is the story of the Sardinian independence activist, Salvatore "Doddore" Meloni , who landed here in August 2008 together with 12 loyalists, claiming the territory and aiming for international recognition as the "Independent Republic of Malu Entu". A blitz that will end five months later with the eviction of the Forestry Corps and the Port Authority of Oristano.
As for the property, after the engineer Miller nothing has ever leaked the name of the real buyer. In fact, Legacy Air Limited is clearly a front company and this is demonstrated by the fact that the legal representatives at the time of the sale were two Panamanian professionals. The name of the English lawyer Christou Christopher indicated by the Panamanians to administer, however, refers to Yiannakis Theophani "John" Christodoulou, 58, resident in Montecarlo, real estate developer in Great Britain and Europe and owner of Yianis Group, with estimated assets of over a billion.
(Unioneonline)
