Companies in Malta are subject to Maltese supervision, and thanks to the EU the companies can operate in the rest of the EU as well. There's probably some extra

Companies in Malta are subject to Maltese supervision, and thanks to the EU the companies can operate in the rest of the EU as well. There's probably some extra rules they need to follow in each country, I don't know the details. The Maltese economy is full of money laundering, tax evasion [1, 2], mafia [3], and other gray areas [4, 5] anyway. This article is a puff piece in the travel section, so it's hardly the place for mentioning of the Panama papers or journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia that was investigating online gambling and corruption was killed by a car bomb in 2017 [6]. [0] https://ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/gambling_en https://ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/gambling_en [1] http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/dodgy-gaming-business-malta-plays-fast-and-loose-with-online-gambling-firms-a-1148929.html http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/dodgy-gaming-bu... [2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40026826 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40026826 [3] https://www.occrp.org/en/thedaphneproject/how-maltese-online-gambling-became-an-atm-for-the-italian-mafia https://www.occrp.org/en/thedaphneproject/how-maltese-online... [4] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/oct/16/tax-evasion-oecd-blacklist-of-21-countries-with-golden-passport-schemes-published https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/oct/16/tax-evasion... [5] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-09-11/why-the-eu-is-furious-with-malta https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-09-11/why-the-e... [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_Caruana_Galizia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_Caruana_Galizia