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Businessman Yorgen Fenech, heir to one of Malta’s largest business empires, has been found not guilty on charges of complicity and criminal association in the 2017 assassination of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.

Yorgen Fenech pleaded not guilty to charges of complicity and criminal association in the 2017 assassination of leading Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.

Yorgen Fenech testified he was innocent in the death of Daphne Caruana Galizia, even as prosecutors pressed him on cash payments to a middleman and leaked police files.

In the trial of business magnate Yorgen Fenech, a middleman’s secret recordings and auto-deleting texts exposed the chilling mechanics behind the 2017 car bombing—and the political leaks that shielded the killers.

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.