Malta Casino Owner Denies Journalist Murder, Points Finger Elsewhere
A Maltese cassino owner accused of organizing the 2017 off of anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has once once more denied being the organize behindhand the killing. Instead, lawyers for Yorgen Fenech get raised questions nigh Keith Schembri, the former Prime Minister’s chief of staff, who resigned inward 2019 inward the backwash of the scandal.
Fenech, who is i of Malta’s richest men, was arrested past the country’s armed forces as he allegedly tried to flee the island on his yacht inwards the betimes hours of Nov. 20, 2019.
Prosecutors contend that Fenech caught wind up that the confessed middleman inward the murder, Melvin Theuma, was ready to shed the beans to authorities in getting even for resistance from prosecution.
Caruana Galizia died inwards a auto bomb planted by offence brothers George III and Alfred the Great Degiorgio and their associate, Vince Muscat, on the orders of Fenech, according to Theuma.
Missing Cellphone
Prosecutors believe Fenech arranged the assassination to prevent the journalist from exposing an allegedly corrupt zip contract awarded to I of Fenech’s companies, Electroglas, past the Maltese government.
The Panama Papers wetting revealed that a Dubai-registered company, later found to live controlled past Fenech, planned to make a $2 gazillion defrayment to deuce offshore eggshell companies. These were owned by Schembri and another politician, Konrad Mizzi, the former Energy Minister.
During prelim hearings for Fenech’s bump off cabal test lowest week, Fenech’s lawyers noted that Schembri’s cellphone had disappeared the eventide before Fenech’s check and has ne'er been found, The Times of Malta reports.
They also emphasized that “Schembri is mentioned inward all Melvin Theuma’s [secret] tapes. His figure cropped upward inwards statements and testimonies.”
When Theuma was foremost arrested on suspicion of his involvement inwards the plot, he was inwards possession of an ice ointment boxful that contained a exposure of him palpitation hands with Schembri.
Police also found a note of hand written by Theuma that mentioned Schembri as “the I who dragged him into this unit mess,” according to Fenech’s lawyers.
“The straight organise is a tertiary party. Do your put to work substantially and you will feel him,” they claimed, as The Times of Republic of Malta reported.
Government Downfall
Caruana Galizia’s bump off made headlines world-wide and sparked widespread anticorruption protests inwards Malta that at last led to the downfall of the government ii years later.
Until his arrest, Fenech was CEO of the Tumas Group, I of Malta’s biggest employers. The company owns the Qawra Oracle Casino and the Portomaso Casino inward Malta.
In 2013, Electrogas was awarded a $500 meg contract bridge to build a power send in Malta and to provide the state-owned electricity provider with energy. At the time of her death, Caruana Galizia looked into the sell spell sifting through and through a memory cache of 600K emails leaked from Electroglas.
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