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19 November 2019The Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat signed the letter granting the presidential pardon to the man who claims to know the identity of the instigator of the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galicia.

The provision, writes the Times of Malta, is conditional on the effective confirmation in court of the evidence provided by the man.

Muscat explained to journalists that the pardon would apply to any process in which the man should be involved, as long as there is collaboration on his part with the authorities also in relation to those events.

Muscat's announcement came a few hours after the revelations made by the Times of Malta, concerning the pardon to be granted to the man who is suspected of having acted as an "intermediary" between the principal and the killers of the journalist, killed with a car bomb on October 16th 2017.

The premier confirmed to journalists that the man was arrested last Thursday in connection with another affair, in a joint operation between Interpol and the Maltese police.

The 'intermediary', through his lawyer, asked for the pardon in exchange for the information in his possession on the murder of Caruana Galicia. "If this person cooperates and the information provided is sufficient to try the instigator of this crime, then he will receive the presidential pardon," said the Maltese prime minister.

Europol experts would be ready to seize documents in his possession after obtaining a mandate from the magistrate who coordinates the investigation.

The Times of Malta reports that the man would be linked both to the instigator of the murder and to the people who then provided the explosive used to kill the reporter. Three suspects, Vince Muscat and the brothers Alfred and George Degiorgio, have been indicted in recent months on charges of detonating the bomb placed under the car floor of Caruana Galicia. The journalist, engaged in investigations involving senior national police officials, was murdered in October 2017.