A Maltese journalist whose analysis of information connected to the Panama Papers scandal exposed corruption in Malta’s government was killed Monday afternoon by a car bomb attack.
Daphne Caruana Galizia died Monday after an explosion ripped herย Peugeot 108 into several pieces, the Guardian reported.
The Panama Papers, a collection of over ten million leaked documents the from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, detailed financial and attorney-client information for more than 214,488 offshore entities. Among them were shell corporations that reporters found were being used for illegal purposes, including evasion of international sanctions, tax evasion, and fraud.