Monday, October 16, 2017

Top Anti-Corruption Reporter Murdered In Malta



VICE News: Reporter who investigated Panama Papers killed in car bomb

Daphne Caruana Galizia, a journalist who relentlessly investigated corruption in her home country of Malta, was killed Monday afternoon in a car bomb outside her home. One of Malta’s leading politicians has called it “political murder” motivated by her reporting.

“What happened today is not an ordinary killing,” said Adrian Delia, a leader of Malta’s political opposition.

Galizia was perhaps most famous for her reporting linking Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, his wife, and several associates to the Panama Papers, a trove of documents detailing several heads of states’ connections to secret offshore shell companies in Panama. Galizia alleged that Muscat’s wife, Michelle, owned one of these companies, and that the company had received a series of payments from an account linked to the government of Azerbaijan.

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WNU Editor: Her anti-corruption efforts clearly irked a lot of people. It cost her life.

More News On Top Anti-Corruption Reporter Daphne Caruana Galizia Murdered In Malta

Maltese blogger who accused government of corruption killed by car bomb -- The Sun Daily (Malta)
Bomb kills reporter who covered Malta’s ‘Panama Papers’ link -- AP
Anti-corruption blogger killed by huge bomb in Malta -- Reuters
Malta car bomb kills Panama Papers journalist -- The Guardian
Malta blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia dies in car bomb attack -- BBC
Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia killed in car blast -- CNN
Car bombing kills Malta journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia -- CPJ Press Freedom Online

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I hope she'll get a major award posthumously. Without reporters like her we'd never know how much we're being bent over every day while others live off us

Unknown said...

China has problems.

But Sicily/Italy might profit from Chinese methods.

Italy has been fighting the Mafia for 20 or 30 years now?

jimbrown said...

You cant hide on Malta.