Chief of staff resigns

Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said yesterday his chief of staff had resigned amid an ongoing probe into the murder of investigative reporter Daphne Caruana Galizia.

Sources told AFP that the chief of staff, Keith Schembri, “was called in for questioning by police” yesterday after his name was mentioned by the main suspect in the case, Yorgen Fenech, who was arrested last week.

Caruana Galizia, a popular journalist and blogger in the Mediterranean island described as a “one-woman WikiLeaks,” was killed in a car bomb in October 2017 after exposing corruption involving high-level politicians.