# Maltese tycoon acquitted of orchestrating journalist’s murder

https://mins.news/en/item/42628

- BBC News, 2026-09-02 19:05 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ye295pxgxo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

> Maltese businessman Yorgen Fenech has been acquitted of complicity and criminal association in the 2017 car-bomb killing of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. The jury cleared him by 8-1 after eight hours of deliberation. Her family said the institutional failures behind her assassination remain unreformed.

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