Panama Papers<\/a> —\u00a0that the energy minister at the time, Konrad Mizzi, and the Prime Minister\u2019s chief of staff, Keith Schembri, had links to shell companies based in Panama. Those companies were due to receive mystery payments totaling $2 million from a shadowy company called 17 Black.<\/p>\nJournalists who took up and vowed to complete Caruana Galizia\u2019s work after her death found that 17 Black was controlled by Fenech.<\/p>\n
Neither Mizzi nor Schembri has been charged with any crime, although they were forced to resign last year over the scandal, which saw demonstrators take to the streets to demand arrests.<\/p>\n
The affair led to the downfall of Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, who resigned at the beginning of the year.<\/strong><\/p>\nPolice have said that Fenech claimed in interviews that Schembri was behind the murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Maltese anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was murdered because she was about to uncover details of a corrupt government contract that benefited Malta\u2019s biggest casino owner. That\u2019s according to Maltese police, who said this week they are working on the assumption that chief suspect Yorgen Fenech was trying to protect the interests of his energy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":147269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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