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The businessman accused of hiring hitmen to murder journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was eager for the killing to occur and once texted from his boat saying he was “preparing champagne” to celebrate, a jury in Malta was told.

Testifying in the trial of businessman Yorgen Fenech, the Degiorgio brothers implicated top political figures in the 2017 assassination plot but repeatedly clashed with the judge and prosecutors.

Yorgen Fenech said to have spent €400,000 on fees for men convicted of car bombing that killed investigative journalist.

The landmark trial of tycoon Yorgen Fenech begins seven years after his arrest for ordering the assassination of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.