Panama Papers exposed how offshore entities shield wealth; leaks sparked global reform debates and prosecutions.
A Maltese jury has acquitted businessman Yorgen Fenech of complicity and criminal association in the 2017 car‑bomb killing of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. The verdict has provoked outrage from the victim's family, press freedom groups and politicians, and it has prompted a Council of Europe inquiry into judicial failures and calls for EU action on Malta's rule of law.