Counter-protest filed by woman accused of fraud over LSM music school
Rita Micallef, the woman who has been accused of fraudulently profiting from musical examinations under a false representation that she was representing the LSM music school has filed a counter protest categorically denying such claims.
A total of 20 people had signed a judicial protest against Rita with relation to the above accusations.
In the counter-protest, Ms Micallef argued that the protestors are completely aware of the case in question, and that there was no fraud and she never profited to the detriment of the teachers who filed the original protest.
The teachers had claimed that through Ms Micallef’s actions, they suffered loss of time, investment, effort and serious amounts of money, that “thousands of students” had suffered the same losses, adding that this cost those students serious delays in their academic progress.
The counter protest refutes the claim that Ms Micallef had claimed she brought the Leicester School of Music to Malta, but that it has been active on the local scene since 1964 until 2014, when she cut off all ties to the school.
Ms Micallef claimed, through her lawyer, that as a former representative of LSM, she is not the legitimate person responsible for the damages suffered by the protestors, where this could refer to the protestors being urged to make claims against the school itself.
She also claimed that on a personal level, she never caused damage to the protestors or their students.
The counter-protest took umbrage with claims that LSM was not an internationally recognised music institution, claiming that it was also associated with the British College of Accordionists, launched in London in 1936.
The fact that there was no accreditation at a local level, was not disputed, but Ms Micallef claimed that she was transparent from beginning to end, and never hid this information. Ms Micallef had no reason to hide this information, since it was not she who brought LSM to Malta in 1964, the counter protest said.