Daphne Caruana Galizia murder: Maltese businessman charged over murder of investigative journalist

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Maltese businessman charged over murder of investigative journalist

Yorgen Fenech entered not guilty plea to charges relating to killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia

Juliette Garside
@JulietteGarside
Sat 30 Nov 2019 22.28 GMT
First published on Sat 30 Nov 2019 20.37 GMT

A businessman has been charged with the murder of Malta’s best known investigative journalist, Daphne Caruana Galizia.

Local tycoon Yorgen Fenech, the 38-year-old head of a gambling and property empire, was arraigned on Saturday evening, and charged with participating in a criminal organisation, complicity in causing an explosion, and complicity in the murder of Caruana Galizia.

He has pleaded not guilty. Fenech has been held in custody and his assets have been frozen on request by the police. His lawyers did not request bail.

The journalist, who had exposed corruption at the highest levels within the Maltese government, died when an explosive device planted under the driver’s seat of her rental car was detonated on 16 October 2017.

The assassination and subsequent accusations of a cover-up have provoked international condemnation, and pitched Malta into its biggest political and constitutional crisis since the former British colony became an independent country in 1964.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/30/maltese-businessman-charged-with-complicity-to-journalist

[mahina]

1. Peace to her. Him, something else.