Malta court acquits businessman of car bomb murder of anti-corruption journalist
The verdict ends the last prosecution in the 2017 car-bomb killing, a case that led to convictions of several other suspects.
- On Wednesday, a jury in Malta acquitted Yorgen Fenech of complicity to murder and criminal association in the 2017 car bomb killing of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.
- Caruana Galizia was killed in Oct 2017 while investigating corruption linked to Prime Minister Joseph Muscat's inner circle, whom she accused of holding offshore companies disclosed via the Panama Papers.
- Prosecutors secured convictions against George Degiorgio and Alfred Degiorgio, who each received 40 years in prison, while middleman Melvin Theuma was granted a presidential pardon in 2019 for his testimony.
- An independent 2021 inquiry concluded the Maltese state "has to bear responsibility" for the assassination, citing a culture of impunity emanating from the highest levels of government on the Mediterranean island.
- Caruana Galizia's death shocked Europe and the European Union, triggering massive protests that toppled Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, as Fenech remained the last of a half-dozen people charged in the plot.
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Yorgen Fenech, 44, has been tried for complicity in murder and criminal association, charges for which he has been found innocent on Wednesday Who ordered Daphne Caruana Galizia to be killed? Trial against the tycoon accused of commissioning the murder of the journalist A jury has acquitted the Maltese businessman on Wednesday of being the intellectual author of the murder in 2017 by a car bomb of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia,…
Maltese journalist was killed with a car bomb in 2017
The journalist was killed in 2017 with an autobomb: Fenech was accused of being its boss This article Malta, acquitted Yorgen Fenech: he was accused of the murder of Daphne Caruana Galicia comes from LaPresse
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