Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Journalist behind Panama Papers killed by car bomb


Journalist behind Panama Papers killed by car bomb...
A journalist who led the Panama Papers offshore tax evasion expose was killed today when a bomb blew up her car. 
Investigative reporter Daphne Caruana Galizia - dubbed a "one-woman WikiLeaks" - was killed as she was driving near the village of Bidnija in northern Malta. 
She had filed a complaint to police a fortnight ago after receiving personal threats to her safety, local media said. 
Caruana Galizia ran a hugely popular blog relentlessly highlighting cases of alleged corruption, often involving politicians from the Mediterranean island nation. 
In Malta, she had led the coverage of the Panama Papers, a leak of millions of legal documents last year detailing financial details of offshore entities used by the rich and powerful to avoid tax. 

Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, who faced accusations of wrong-doing by Caruana Galizia earlier this year, denounced her killing. 
He called it a "barbaric attack on press freedom".

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