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maltatoday | SUNDAY • 21 OCTOBER 2018
NEWS
STAFF REPORTER
THE man reported to have called
Alfred Degiorgio – one of the men
accused of murdering Daphne
Caruana Galizia – moments
after calling the journalist
herself, was investigated for
cigarette smuggling back in
2011.
Pierre Darmanin, the
owner of a number of
fishing vessels and a property company, had
been investigated after his ship was boarded
by the Armed Forces during a routine check
in 2011.
They discovered cigarette containers stowed
away in various parts of the boat, which was
eventually found to be carrying over 550,000
cigarettes and 86kg of tobacco.
Darmanin was placed under the spotlight
by Italian newspaper La Repubblica, a mem-
ber of the Daphne Project consortium, after
it claimed he had called Caruana Galizia on
a 2016 story concerning a boat of his impli-
STAFF REPORTER
THE man reported to have called
Alfred Degiorgio – one of the men
accused of murdering Daphne
Caruana Galizia – moments
after calling the journalist
herself, was investigated for
cigarette smuggling back in
2011.
Man named in
Daphne Project
investigated
over cigarette
smuggling in 2011
Pierre Darmanin
