New Facts: Matthew Caruana Galizia testifies on mother's corruption probes

Matthew Caruana Galizia told the jury his mother was working through a cache of thousands of Electrogas emails when she was killed. Electrogas, partly owned by Yorgen Fenech, had won a government contract to run part of Malta’s power supply after the 2013 election. He said Fenech appeared in countless messages and that the leak was still coming in on the day she died.

He said he joined her work in 2015 while processing the Panama Papers and shared Malta-related findings with her. According to his account, material from that leak and her sources produced evidence that Konrad Mizzi and Keith Schembri set up offshore companies soon after taking office, with accountants moving to open bank accounts for them. The jury was shown a 2017 comment in which Daphne accused the pair of entering power with corruption as a plan.

When asked about the power station tender, he said his mother told him it was corrupt, and the judge cautioned that this was opinion. The defense also objected after he described the unfolding evidence in stark terms. He said Daphne wanted to assemble a cross-border team to examine the Electrogas cache and that he had already contacted the Guardian to start it, but she was killed before it began.

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