Daphne Caruana Galizia was investigating suspected corruption when killed, jury told

Journalist’s son says his mother was examining leak from Electrogas, part owned by Yorgen Fenech who is on trial Daphne Caruana Galizia was investigating suspected corruption by the businessman Yorgen Fenech and members of Malta’s government when she was killed, a jury has heard. The heir to one of Malta’s biggest fortunes, Fenech is on trial for murder, accused of commissioning and paying for Caruana Galizia’s killing in a car bombing in October 2017. The journalist’s son Matthew Caruana Galizia, a software engineer who was part of the reporting team that won a Pulitzer prize for the Panama Papers investigation into offshore companies, took the stand on Monday. He described being drawn in to helping his mother with her work, saying that as more facts came to light, it seemed to him a “portal” had opened and he could “see into hell”. In 2015, Matthew said, he was working on the Panama Papers leak, uploading millions of files into a database that reporters were using to investigate tax havens.

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