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Portelli asked Yorgen Fenech to help him leak stories to Labour about Delia foes
Former Malta Independent editor who presided over Panama Papers onslaught against Labour, then turned to Tumas magnate to prop up beleaguered PN leader Adrian Delia
10 March 2021, 5:29pm
by Matthew Vella
The former editor of The Malta Independent and Adrian Delia’s former chief canvasser, Pierre Portelli, has admitting using Tumas magnate Yorgen Fenech to leak stories to the Labour Party on Delia’s internal party critics and rebels.
Portelli had led the paper when it was part of the ICIJ’s Panama Papers exposé, which the assassinated journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia had propped up with her revelations on Keith Schembri, the former right-hand man to former prime minister Joseph Muscat.