Major businessman among three potential key suspects behind Daphne Caruana Galizia’s assassination – Sunday Times of Malta
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The Sunday Times of Malta reports that a major businessman is among three potential key suspects behind the assassination of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, according to two sources close to the investigation.
The businessman’s dealings were being investigated by Ms Caruana Galizia before she was murdered in an explosion after a bomb was placed inside her car in October 2017, The Sunday Times of Malta reveals.
The report says that “Investigators have yet to question the suspect, who could potentially be one of the masterminds, since evidence is still being gathered, but one source said they are “quite certain by now that Daphne Caruana Galizia was murdered because of what she wrote or what she was about to reveal”. Among other leads, investigators have homed in on Ms Caruana Galizia’s investigations into the Maltese businessman’s dealings, even though the victim and the potential suspect were never engaged in any legal battles or public wrangles.”
Sources said investigators are also focusing on at least two other men who could have been involved in the commissioning of the murder. One is believed to be connected with the gambling scene, the other suspected to be linked to the smuggling underworld.
Investigators have so far found no evidence linking politicians or persons holding political office to the murder, though a potential connection has not been ruled out.
They have established a link between certain individuals, as well as a sequence of events that points to the role of a businessman in the commissioning of the murder.
Police are also focusing their attention on an intermediary who is thought to have acted as a go-between for the businessman and the three men charged with carrying out the murder.
Documents reviewed by Times of Malta reveal that one of the suspects drew up a last will shortly after Alfred Degiorgio, his brother George, and Vince Muscat were arrested and charged in court with planting the bomb in December 2017.
It is understood that investigators are also looking into a money trail received by the family of the Degiorgio brothers after the two men – whose assets were frozen in a money laundering case – were charged with Ms Caruana Galizia’s murder.
Meanwhile Malta Todayreveals that Mr Justice Aaron Bugeja has recused himself from the trial of the thee men accused of carrying out the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia. The paper says the judge, who led the Egrant magisterial inquiry, has not made his reasons public.
