Journalist's Car Exploded After Exposing Malta's Most Powerful Men.. DAPHNE CARUANA GALIZIA

Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was assassinated by a car bomb near her home in October 2017 after years of exposing alleged corruption involving Malta's political and business elite. Investigators eventually uncovered a murder plot involving convicted hitmen, bomb suppliers, middleman Melvin Theuma, and wealthy businessman Yorgen Fenech, who prosecutors accuse of commissioning the killing for €150,000. Fenech denies ordering the assassination and claims former government chief of staff Keith Schembri was actually behind the plot, an allegation Schembri denies. In July 2026, nearly nine years after Daphne's death, Fenech finally went on trial. This episode follows Daphne's investigations into the Panama Papers, 17 Black and Electrogas, the 2017 assassination, the secret recordings that cracked open the case, Fenech's dramatic 2019 yacht arrest, and the ongoing battle over who truly ordered her murder.