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Maltese businessman paid hitmen €150,000 to kill Daphne Caruana Galizia, jury hears

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According to The Guardian, a Maltese businessman has been accused of plotting to kill investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. Yorgen Fenech, a forty-four-year-old heir to a property empire that owns the Hilton Malta hotel and casino, is on trial for the two thousand seventeen murder. A jury heard that he allegedly paid one hundred fifty thousand euros to three hitmen to carry out the killing.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/01/malta-yorge...

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