LESA CEO says email about him 'sorting' Y-Plate fines is fabricated

An association representing self-employed cab drivers published an email on Tuesday suggesting that LESA CEO Svetlick Flores had waived dozens of parking fines for a cab fleet.

But Flores immediately denied the claim, insisting that the email did not come from him and suggesting it was fabricated.

The email was released by the LPAO Association, saying it was part of an exchange between WT Global cab fleet and LESA.

WT Global is Malta’s biggest fleet, with its cabs operating on Malta’s three ride-hailing platforms: Bolt, eCabs and Uber.

In the email sent in February 2024 a man named “Salem” wrote: “I am sending you fines we received for illegal street parking. We have 67 pending. They take breaks for a few minutes.”

A reply signed off as “SF” said: “Sorted”.

"The Chief Executive Officer of LESA, Svetlick Flores, denies the allegations made against him in recent hours on the Facebook page of LPOA Association Y Plate, claiming that he committed an act contrary to the law," LESA said in a statement.

The LPAO's statement on Facebook.

It said that Flores has asked the police to investigate the allegations, insisting that the email address was not his.

"The email shown on the Facebook page of LPOA refers to an email reading “svetlick.f”, whereas Mr Flores’s actual email is “svetlick.k.flores”.

WT Global denied that the email came from them.  

In a statement, the LPAO association said:

“This information, if true, is scandalous and unacceptable. Is it true that, through direct communication with the CEO of LESA, 67 fines of €500 each (a total of €33,500) were waived by means of a simple email?”

“This constitutes a clear abuse of the system and preferential treatment that cannot be tolerated. If this is true, it means that the system has completely failed and that there are those who are above the law,” the association said.

In comments to Times of Malta, WT Global said that the company had never had a person named “Salem” working in its offices.

Times of Malta could not independently confirm whether a “Salem” had ever worked at WT Global offices.

WT Global added that LESA was only given the power to issue €500 fines in October 2025, while the email is dated February 2024.

“Even the language used is not how it would be officially issued from within the office. Do you really think that something like this would be sent from a company such as ours to official authorities?” they said.