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| Malta businessman Yorgen Fenech arrested on yacht | Malta businessman Yorgen Fenech arrested on yacht |
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| Maltese police have arrested a leading businessman after intercepting his yacht off the island, reports say. | |
| Yorgen Fenech, owner of the company 17 Black, was detained by armed officers, the Times of Malta reported. | Yorgen Fenech, owner of the company 17 Black, was detained by armed officers, the Times of Malta reported. |
| It comes a day after PM Joseph Muscat said he would consider a pardon for an alleged money launderer suspected of being the middleman in the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. | It comes a day after PM Joseph Muscat said he would consider a pardon for an alleged money launderer suspected of being the middleman in the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. |
| Galizia, an anti-corruption blogger, was killed by a car bomb in 2017. | |
| Malta's handling of the case has drawn international criticism. | |
| Witnesses quoted by the Times of Malta said Mr Fenech's luxury yacht was intercepted by an armed patrol boat as it left the port of Portomaso, north of Valletta, early on Wednesday. | |
| Police have not yet commented on the operation. | |
| On Tuesday, Mr Muscat said the alleged middleman would first have to give evidence in court before a pardon could be issued. | |
| Mr Fenech heads a business group that won a major energy concession from the Maltese government in 2013 to build a gas-fired power station. |