# Malta businessman acquitted in journalist's murder case

https://mins.news/en/item/42705

- DW, 2026-09-02 21:21 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.dw.com/en/malta-businessman-acquitted-of-journalist-s-murder/a-78814305?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf

> Maltese businessman Yorgen Fenech was acquitted by an 8-1 jury verdict of commissioning investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia’s 2017 car-bomb killing and of criminal association to commit murder. Her family said the institutional failures that led to her death remain unaddressed and unreformed.

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