Businessman charged over murder of Maltese journalist

Maltese prosecutors have charged a prominent local businessman as being an accomplice to the murder of anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in a 2017 car bombing on Malta.

Yorgen Fenech, a hotelier and former director of the Maltese power company, was also charged in a court hearing on Saturday night with being an accomplice to causing the explosion that killed the 53-year-old as she drove near her home.