Investigative journalist spent her career cataloguing what she believed to be endemic corruption among the political elite in Malta, the European Union鈥檚 smallest member state. When she was murdered in a car bomb in October 2017, it was, 鈥渁n assassination to match the scale of the crimes on which she was reporting.鈥�
Now, more than two years later, amid growing concerns over his handling of Caruana Galizia鈥檚 murder investigation. Partly due to a long delay by Maltese authorities, evidence has just recently begun to emerge implicating senior members of Muscat鈥檚 government in her death. It has cast a harsh light on Malta鈥檚 role as a murky offshore financial center, while exposing systemic vulnerabilities to corruption and other financial misdeeds across the EU.
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