Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat has announced that the police had arrested eight suspects in the murder of a Panama Papers blogger, Daphne Caruana Galizia.
According to him, the suspects are Maltese citizens, with many of them having criminal records.
While no further details have been provided yet, police are set to question the suspects in the next 48 hours.
The arrests come less than two months after Caruana Galizia's car was blown up while she was driving it. The Maltese authorities asked the United States and the United Kingdom to send staff to help the investigation, while Wikileaks founder Julian Assange announced the award of 20,000 euros ($23,600) for any information that could lead tothe killers of the Maltese journalist being convicted.
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According to Galizia's own investigation based on the Panama Papers documents conducted in April, the Malta prime minister's wife Michelle was the owner of offshore company Egrant, which had received major payments from abroad, with Muscat and his wife denied the blogger's claims.
