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Malta's prime minister Joseph Muscat still has a posthumous defamation case ongoing against murdered reporter, Daphne Caruana Galizia (Photo: eu2017mt/Flickr)

Whistleblower fears for life as US arrests Malta bank chair

A source for murdered Maltese reporter Daphne Caruana Galizia turned herself into the Greek police on Tuesday (20 March) after Malta and Cyprus issued a European warrant for her arrest.

The crackdown on Maria Efimova, a 35-year old Russian national who fed Galizia inside information that led to reports on high level political corruption and money laundering, appears to be part of an on-going smear campaign against the whistle-blower.

According to the Maltese authorities, Efimova h...

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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

Malta's prime minister Joseph Muscat still has a posthumous defamation case ongoing against murdered reporter, Daphne Caruana Galizia (Photo: eu2017mt/Flickr)

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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

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