Daphne Caruana Galizia, a blogger whose investigations focused on corruption, was described as a ‘one-woman WikiLeaks’The journalist who led the Panama Papers investigation into corruption in Malta was killed on Monday in a car bomb near her home. The Nationalist party leader, Adrian Delia – himself the subject of negative stories by Caruana Galizia – claimed the killing was linked to her reporting. What are the Panama Papers? Caruana Galizia’s son, Matthew Caruana Galizia, is a journalist and programmer who works for the ICIJ. Responding to news of the attack, the German MEP Sven Giegold, a leading figure in the parliament’s Panama Papers inquiry, said he was “shocked and saddened”.

Source: The Guardian October 16, 2017 17:09 UTC