Maltese Businessman Acquitted of Hiring Bomb Gang That Killed Investigative Journalist
The Maltese government called for calm after a tycoon was acquitted of commissioning the murder of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in 2017.
TL;DR
- Yorgen Fenech, a Maltese business tycoon, was acquitted on September 2.
- He was accused of ordering the murder of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.
- Caruana Galizia was killed by a car bomb in 2017.
- Fenech was indicted in 2021 on charges of complicity and criminal conspiracy.
- Prosecutors alleged he was the mastermind and paid for the 2017 attack.
- A court in Valletta found him not guilty of complicity in murder and criminal association to commit murder.
- The jury deliberated for eight hours before reaching an 8–1 decision.