The disgraced former president and party leader is behind bars, humiliatingly escorted to prison by heavily armed police officers. His successor was profoundly apologetic: “The governing party could and should have done more to prevent corruption under my predecessor.”
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Like Muscat, Zuma sold himself as the people’s leader and promised transparency and meritocracy. Like Muscat he was forced from office when it all ended badly.
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DB Group owner Silvio Debono and the Caruana Galizia family have reached a settlement that effectively ends 19 libel suits which the business mogul had filed against Daphne Caruana Galizia four years ago.
Debono had filed all lawsuits in March 2017, seven months before the journalist was killed in a car bomb explosion outside her Bidnija home, in response to articles Caruana Galizia published about the highly controversial ITS land deal at St Geoge s Bay.
The land is to be turned into a mega-development, dubbed City Centre, by Debono s DB Group.
Following her murder, Caruana Galizia s husband and three sons subsequently stepped into the ongoing civil proceedings as respondents.
Silvio Debono drops libel cases against Daphne Caruana Galizia following settlement
DB Group owner Silvio Debono agrees court settlement with Caruana Galizia family over 19 law suits filed in March 2017 against the assassinated journalist
19 April 2021, 2:38pm
by Karl Azzopardi
DB Group owner Silvio Debono has dropped 19 libel suits against slain journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia after reaching a settlement with her family.
Debono had filed all the libel suits four years ago in March 2017, seven months before her untimely death, after she had written a series of articles related to the ITS land deal.
The land is to be turned into the City Centre development by his company DB Group.