Malta court acquits businessman of car bomb murder of anti-corruption journalist
He was found not guilty of complicity to murder and criminal association after prosecutors said he ordered and paid for the killing.
- 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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The jury found Yorgen Fenech innocent of complicity and conspiracy. He was the last of the six accused in the case that rocked Malta and provoked world condemnation.
Alleged Mastermind Acquitted in Murder of Journalist
A jury in Malta on Wednesday acquitted the Maltese businessman accused of being the mastermind of the 2017 car bomb killing of crusading investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. The killing shocked Europe, led to protests that toppled a prime minister , and exposed a culture of impunity on the Mediterranean island...
For nine years, the trial has been on trial for the murder of the Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. Several men have already been convicted. The alleged client of the attack has not been held to account - and that remains the case.
Probably the most spectacular murder case in Malta took an unexpected turn: almost nine years after the car bomb murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, a businessman was acquitted. He had been accused of being a mastermind.
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