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MATTHEW VELLA ONE of the hitmen in the assas- sination of the journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia told a magistrate in February 2021, that a co-conspira- tor had complained they had failed to record conversations with former Labour minister Chris Cardona. Vincent Muscat 'il-Koħħu', who pleaded guilty to his part in the car bomb that killed Caruana Galizia in 2017 for a 15-year sentence, told a magistrate the Degiorgio brothers name-dropped Cardona in a con- versation they had while waiting to be escorted into the courtroom for the compilation of evidence against him. George and Alfred Degiorgio were last week denied a pardon for their part in the crime, after they claimed they could give direct evidence of a former Labour minister who com- missioned the Caruana Galizia mur- der, as well as an unnamed middle- man that has so far faced no charges in relation to the case. TRUTH IS OF NO COLOUR WWW.MALTATODAY.COM.MT/COVID19 SUNDAY • 25 APRIL 2021 • ISSUE 1121 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY maltatoday DIMECH AT 100 CARUANA GALIZIA PAGE 3 PGS 8-11 €1.95 SAVING GOZO Hitmen said 'we should have recorded Chris Cardona', Kohhu told Magistrate Pastizzi from Serkin, Red Bull from Havana Nicole Meilak for MaltaToday & Albert Galea for The Malta Independent RECEIPTS for Pastizzi from Rabat's famous Crys- tal Palace Bar and for a Red Bull from a nightclub in Paceville were amongst the so-called "genuine links" presented by IIP candi- dates in order to prove the ties they had developed to Malta as they sought to get their hands on a passport. Applicants for the Indi- vidual Investor Programm – Malta's €1.15 million cash-for-passports scheme for the global rich – al- lowed them to spend just an average of 16 days in Malta out of their supposed 12-month residency peri- od. The system was put in place by Henley & Partners, the IIP's 'concessionaire' and the government agency Identity Malta, which effec- tively reduced the residen- cy process to a box-ticking and score-granting exer- cise, documents revealed in the Passport Papers show. SUPER VILLAINS How fans cancelled rich clubs' dream of 'gated' league Michael Falzon MT2 Amnesia and defiance of Malta's first radical democrat 14-15 PASSPORT PAPERS 'Genuine links' were little more than fiscal receipts The 'genuine links' presented by IIP applicants in their quest for a Maltese passport Qala mayor Paul Buttigieg on his fight against aggressive and speculative development MT2 PGS 8-9