• Investigation: One of Malta's most important businessmen is arrested for the murder of journalist Caruana

The shadow of the death of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in 2017, killed with a car bomb, plans on Malta's Prime Minister Joseph Muscat , who will leave office on January 18, according to party sources. The journalist was investigating the Panama Papers in 2016 and pointed against the prime minister and his wife, Michelle Muscat , whom he accused of having a stake in a Panama-based company.

At that time, the prime minister denied the accusations and called them "the biggest lie in the political history of Malta . " Months later, before the pressure on the streets, he called early elections and was again elected. But the journalist's family, the opposition and several civil movements accuse him of interfering in the investigation to protect his chief of staff, Keith Schembri.

Daphne Caruana revealed that several companies of Schembri and Konrad Mizzi (then Minister of Energy and current Minister of Tourism until his resignation a few days ago) had received payments of up to two million dollars from a mysterious company based in Dubai.

Muscat should announce, on a date still to be determined "elections for the leadership of the party on January 18," said party sources, who said that "no interim leader will be appointed, since he will formally resign when the new one is elected boss . " In the Maltese parliamentary system, the prime minister is systematically the head of the party that wins the legislative

This Saturday the story has taken a new turn with the accusation of the Maltese businessman Yorgen Fenech as an accomplice in the murder of the journalist. Fenech, one of the island's best-known businessmen, was arrested days ago while trying to escape aboard his yacht. The businessman has asked the authorities for clemency in exchange for telling everything he knew about the murder of the journalist.

In 2017, Daphne Caruana had written in her blog about 17 Black Limited , a company in Dubai connected with several Maltese politicians. Months later, and after several arrests, the Police discovered that the head of this company was the businessman Yorgen Fenech, also the owner of the most important casinos in Malta and general director of the country's power and gas plant, which, coincidentally, Caruana was investigating alleged bribes.

This week, the Reuters agency made public the details of Daphne's death: a commissioned crime for which his killers pocketed 150,000 euros . The plot includes Vince Muscat and the brothers Alfred and George Degiorgio , the only three arrested so far for this case as the alleged perpetrators of the crime. All three will be judged by a jury on a date yet to be determined.

Caruana Galizia was one of the best known investigative journalists in the country. With thirty years of experience behind him, he had worked in the main newspapers of the country, 'Times of Malta' and 'The Malta Independent', but was mostly known for his blog, 'Running Commentary' , in which he published research which showed how corruption was rooted in the high spheres of political and business power in the country. The blog had more daily visits than any of the country's newspapers.

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