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How the Murder of a Journalist in Malta Exposed Europe鈥檚 Corruption Problem

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nate_sibley
Fellow and Director, Kleptocracy Initiative

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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