THE PANAMA PAPERS | CAPITALISM AND CORRUPTION Four years after the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia, a journalist and blogger who led the investigation of the #PanamaPapers leak in Malta, a new inquiry has concluded that the state should “shoulder responsibility for her death”. The 437-page report does not directly blame the Maltese state for the orchestration of her murder, but it deems that an atmosphere of impunity was generated by the highest echelons of the government. This comes after a period of increasing instability in the country, which has been engulfed in corruption scandals, enormous levels of inequality, and utter incompetence in dealing with an increasingly dire refugee crisis. Throughout her time as an investigative journalist, Caruana uncovered countless corruption schemes involving the country’s elites. Her independent blog was one of the most visited websites on the island, which placed a target on her back. For years, the ruling class and their politi...
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