The Sergei Malinka connection with Robert Murat and the case

[John]

Who is Sergei Malinka?

Sergei Malinka (23 in 2007) is a Moldavian-Russian man who had been living in Praia da Luz since moving there with his parents in August 1999.  He lived with his parents in Vila da Luz some 300 metres from the Ocean Club.  His mother, a housewife, worked for the Blue Ocean Company which cleaned a number of apartments for the Ocean Club including one immediately above that occupied by the McCanns.  Malinka was considered an expert in computer-related work and as a result was well known and enjoyed a high social profile in the area. He ran a computer store in Praia da Luz and had set up a website for an associate, Robert Murat. According to Gonçalo Amaral, telephone records revealed that Murat telephoned Malinka at around 11.30pm on the night that Madeleine disappeared.

On 16 May 2007, Malinka was interviewed by the Portuguese police in connection with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.  He later claimed that he was beaten up by police during the interrogation to try to get him to admit involvement.

When the police arrived at his apartment to question him, he had allegedly already wiped the hard drive of his personal computer which contained hundreds of files.  The Report eventually released by the police stated:  “This is the summary of the examination of nine mass storage devices (disks and memory sticks/cards) collected from Sergei Malinka's house. “Nothing was found of relevance for the case. In addition, 27 optical disks (CD ROMs) were analysed and found to contain pornography and, on one disk, bestiality”.

On 6 August 2007, Malinka's car along with several others were taken to an underground car park opposite the PJ's offices in Portimão by investigators. There they were the subject of an inspection by British scent dogs Eddie and Keela belonging to Martin Grime.  Throughout the investigation, Malinka denied having a criminal record in any country and of any involvement in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, no further action was taken against him.

At around 4am on the 20 March 2008,  a car belonging to Malinka was set on fire outside his home.  The word FALA (Portuguese for TALK) was spray painted on the pavement adjacent to the car.



Charred wreck: Malinka's torched Audi A4 with the word "FALA" written beside it.



 

[Redblossom]

is there any evidence to connect him?

[Carana]

We know that Sergey Malinka and Robert Murat spoke on the phone around 11:30 pm on May 3, 2007 - a short time after Madeleine McCann went missing.

Just to let readers know, Malinka's car was later fire-bombed in the street near his apartment and the word "TALK" spray painted on the footpath alongside it.  He has since disappeared.

John, have you been able to find reliable sources for this yet? If not, it's seems somewhat libellous to me, particularly taken as whole.

Incidentally, he seems to have successfully sued members of the PT media.
http://madeleinemccannthetruth.wordpress.com/2011/09/28/malinka-v-carvalho-and-maia/

[AnneGuedes]

When a catastrophe occurs, like an earthquake, the police has to be deployed very quickly, because there are always people who will take advantage of others' misery.
I'm afraid the "fala" is a coward and mean way to settle scores.

[Carana]

When a catastrophe occurs, like an earthquake, the police has to be deployed very quickly, because there are always people who will take advantage of others' misery.
I'm afraid the "fala" is a coward and mean way to settle scores.

I'm not sure what you are referring to by your first sentence.

Re "Fala", I'm not certain that it was ever firmly established that it was indeed his car as opposed to a car of the same model and colour as his.


ETA: It was his car.

Computer expert Sergey Malinka, 22, an associate of official suspect Robert Murat, woke up to discover the smouldering Audi A4 close to his flat in Praia da Luz, the Algarve resort where Madeleine went missing last May.

Sprayed in red paint on the pavement next to it was "fala" ? Portuguese for "speak".

The Russian expat said yesterday: "Who the hell has written that? What exactly do they want me to say?

"They must be talking about Robert. There's nothing to say. I'm angry that someone would do this and I want to find out who it was."

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-540909/Murat-friend-quizzed-Madeleine-finds-car-torched--word-speak-scrawled-it.html#ixzz2bZTKxjUg
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Strange incident.

Some vigilante nutter?

Score-settling on an unrelated issue?

Either of the above, but a case of mistaken identity?

[Admin]

The Portuguese Police established the contacts after going through the mobile phone records.

From Malinka's statement of 16 May 2007.

"Regarding the day 3 May he said that he did not meet, nor spoke with Robert."

later followed on the same statement by...

"With regard to the telephone contact he received on 03 May 07, at 23:30, made by ROBERT, he affirms that he does not recall having received such a call, but if this actually happened, it will have been to arrange a meeting with the same, for professional reasons.
He affirms he is not protecting ROBERT and never to have had the intention to take any kind of responsibility for him, including the activities undertaken for him on the computer.
He does not know any thing that can contribute to [finding the] the location of the girl, or for any another kind of explanation of the events under investigation."

http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/SERGEY-MALINKA.htm#p6p1459

[sadie]

I dont remember who it was that was in telephone contact, but I seem to remember reading somewhere that Malinka had a telephone conversation with someone on a boat moored at nearby Lagos.... and I think it was in the evening, but am not sure about the time at all.

[John]

It was claimed that Sergey Malinka was employed as a trip organizer by the Corlett Lines Company who owned the yacht "Naomi Corlett".  It was also claimed that this was the yacht which left Portimao in the early afternoon hours of 3rd May 2007 and headed towards the Marina in Lagos to be positioned near Praia da Luz.  None of this was ever verified by the PJ.

Further speculation included the claim that Sergei Malinka was an organizer of expeditions to remote islands off the coast of Africa on behalf of the Corlett Lines Company, and was also involved in offering boat trips in the Mediterranean and to the North of Africa.

It is claimed on one website that mobile phone records exist which show that early in the afternoon of the day that Madeleine disappeared that Malinka's phone was used to contact a woman described as his wife supposedly aboard this same yacht.  I have yet to see independent verification of this.

[John]

As Luz has already pointed out in another thread, the PJ were unable to connect Malinka to any wrongdoing.  They searched his apartment on several occasions and even listened in on his telephone conversations which are available as part of the PJ files.

See pages 1668 to 1708 here >  http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/PAGE_ORDER.htm

[Carana]

It was claimed that Sergey Malinka was employed as a trip organizer by the Corlett Lines Company who owned the yacht "Naomi Corlett".  It was also claimed that this was the yacht which left Portimao in the early afternoon hours of 3rd May 2007 and headed towards the Marina in Lagos to be positioned near Praia da Luz.  None of this was ever verified by the PJ.

Further speculation included the claim that Sergei Malinka was an organizer of expeditions to remote islands off the coast of Africa on behalf of the Corlett Lines Company, and was also involved in offering boat trips in the Mediterranean and to the North of Africa.

It is claimed on one website that mobile phone records exist which show that early in the afternoon of the day that Madeleine disappeared that Malinka's phone was used to contact a woman described as his wife supposedly aboard this same yacht.  I have yet to see independent verification of this.

John, do you know where this originated? You've posted it as if it were established fact but as far as I'm aware, the only snippet that is true is that Corlett Lines do have a boat called the Naomi Corlett that is rented out for expeditions.

- Malinka was running a busy IT business designing websites and repairing computers.

Correction: it seems he was involved with an outfit called Island Expeditions at some point. Whether it was active or not at the time of the disappearance, he still could not have been phoning his "wife" on the Naomi Corlett.


Some conspiracy theorist called Michael Shrimpton produced a long, rambling document interspersing the activities of historical secret services with a few basic facts about Madeliene's disappearance and added a large dose of imagination. In it are mentions of various boats, including the Naomi Corlett.

- Naomi Corlett is not in the long list of boats that were checked out by the PJ.
http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/BOATS.htm

When Shrimpton's report was leaked (quite probably accidentally on purpose), Special Branch in Gibralter checked if there was any truth in any of it.

Apensos V, Vol 5, Page 987

Page 987 (Page 1 of 1)

Newton Martin
________________
From : Special Branch (rgpsb@gibtelecom.net)
Sent : 18th May 2007 12.03
To : task@leicestershire.pnn.police.uk
Subject : FW : Operation Task


________________Original Message________________
From : Special Branch
To : task@leicestershire.pnn.police.uk
Sent : Thursday, May 17th, 2007 4.41 p.m.
Subject : Operation Task

Good afternoon Martin,

The Royal Gibraltar Police have conducted enquiries in relation to three vessels that Mr Shrimpton claimed that Maddie may be on. I understand that you may have records of these. They are (1) Panic 2 or Panic Too, (2) Stentor, and (3) Naomi. There is no trace that of any of these vessels having recently arrived in Gibraltar, but in the mean time we have flagged them i the event that they do.

Good luck with your enquiries.

Best regards,

Richard Ullger

Special Branch
Royal Gibraltar Police
New Mole House Police Station
Rosia Road
Gibraltar


As everyone was intrigued at the time, a poster who has/had a blog/forum for missing children (ETA: called FindMadeleine), contacted Martin Corlett to see if any of it was true.

As I see that Tezza has posted it in public in the comment section of a blog that was rehashing this conspiracy myth, I'll allow myself to post it here.

The reality is that at time of Madeleine's disappearance, the Naomi Corlett had been off the coast of Africa for two years.

So it seems somewhat unlikely that Malinka could have been phoning his wife (he wasn't married to his girlfriend as far as I know) on that boat in Lagos that night.



Tezza said...
That document is a fake and keeps resurfacing.
Let me assure you all that I went to extreme lengths in order to prove that this document was a fake.
I wrote direct to Martin Corlett, the owner of the company that owns the Naomi Corlett ship mentioned in the document.

I actually had to go 'undercover' and pose as somebody who was interested in working on an expedition. I was even offered a position onboard the ship. (I did not accept the position by the way ) This is the very interesting reply that Mr. Corlett sent me back in June of last year.

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Hallo Steve,
The "blog" that is presently on the internet originates from the fact that we live near Praia da Luz, my daughter is the press correspondence and translator for Sky News, and also is the mother of my grand-daughter Naomi Corlett.
When we first discovered this ridiculous association with this unfortunate mystery, we contacted our lawyers, who immediately had the Daily Mail remove the "blogs" from their notice board; however the lunatic that has come up with this present theory is untrackable, he is apparently well known in the journalist's world, and considered a "crackpot", I talked with our lawyers once again over this situation and they explained that to trace this "lunatic theorists" would cost considerable money, and result in nothing, they advised that eventually it would disappear.
At the time of the unfortunate mystery (as we who are conversant with the case refer to it) the R/S. Naomi Corlett had been in Africa for two years, and was at the very time of the "disapearance" the ship was at the use of the President of The Gambia and an American diving syndicate. The article would only be of interest to people with no logic or common sense, the logistics involved plus the costs involved are extremely high, a ship of this size costs in the region of £2,000 per day to operate. However, back to the real world; I can create a position for a project manager for expeditions, we have the ships, equipment and accommadtion in places that no one can access, we want to carry out studies in marine biology / archeology, and bio-diversity, we are going to re-build the forteleza that we own and organise an archeological dig in the grounds, and last but not least we are going to 'retrace' the slave run from the whole of the West African coast to Brazil, the Caribbean, the US and Europe; if you have any colleages interested in this position, feel free to inform or contact.

Best regards

Martin Frank Corlett

http://rosaleen-thewhistler.blogspot.ch/2009/06/fate-of-madeleine-document-removed.html

[John]

Thank you for posting that information Carana.  The claims about Malinka were quite compelling but like many things add up to something completely different.   I have edited my posts and those linked to them to refect what is now known.

Do you happen to know if Malinka has ever been found following his swift departure from PdL?   If he sued a Portuguese newspaper he must be around somewhere.

Maybe Luz can fill us in and report on the case Malinka -v- Carvalho and Maia and what was the outcome?

[Carana]

Thank you for posting that information Carana.  The claims about Malinka were quite compelling but like many things add up to something completely different.   I have edited my posts and those linked to them to refect what is now known.

Do you happen to know if Malinka has ever been found following his swift departure from PdL?   If he sued a Portuguese newspaper he must be around somewhere.

Where does the idea that he made a "swift departure" come from?

[John]

Where does the idea that he made a "swift departure" come from?

Would you hang around a foreign town if you were accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a minor, being a pornographer and being involved in an abduction?   I suppose it is quite normal to have your car firebombed in the street just yards from your apartment and the word "TALK" spray painted on the footpath beside it.

[Angelo222]

I tried to track down Malinka but his computer shop seems to have changed hands and I was told he moved to Spain to get away from the adverse publicity which had damaged his business.

He follows these forums closely so he might want to put his side of events in order to set the record straight.  Assuming of course that he has nothing to hide??

[Mo Stache]

Would you hang around a foreign town if you were accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a minor, being a pornographer and being involved in an abduction?   I suppose it is quite normal to have your car firebombed in the street just yards from your apartment and the word "TALK" spray painted on the footpath beside it.

I've heard it's quite normal to have your car bombed and a message sent if you involved with the Mafia. But then again, no concrete proof exists to substantiate that either. Just as there is no concrete proof linking the car bombing to the McCann case.