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Maltese Prosecutors Charge Businessman in Reporter's Killing

Associated Press

   VALLETTA, MALTA - Maltese prosecutors on Saturday charged a prominent
   local businessman as being an accomplice to the murder of
   anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in a 2017 car bombing
   on Malta.
   YorgenFenech, a Maltese hotelier and director of the Maltese power
   company, was also charged in the evening courtroom hearing with being
   an accomplice to causing the explosion that killed the 53-year-old
   reporter as she drove near her home.
   Magistrate AudreyDemicoliasked Fenech to enter pleas. He replied that
   he was pleading innocent, and he was remanded in custody.

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