The New Yorker Magazine (№ 21st December 2020) by David Remnick (Editor In Chief)

Author:David Remnick (Editor In Chief) [Remnick, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: culture, politics, art, jounalism, magazine, non-fiction
Publisher: Conde Nast
Published: 2020-12-20T13:00:00+00:00

ent years and continents, contained in-

dependent fragments of the over-all

scheme. “Imagine how much we didn’t

find out, all the stuff that hasn’t been

leaked. Mossack Fonseca isn’t even the

biggest law firm in Panama!”

Matthew has continued to inves-

tigate shell companies and financial

crime, and is campaigning for the dis-

solution of Electrogas, the company

behind the power station. “People seem

to think of businesses as a kind of force

of nature,” he told me. “What can we

do to, for example, make sure that Elec-

trogas does not continue to profit off

murder and corruption? Almost noth-

ing. The company is a monopoly.” He

gestured to a lamp in the corner. “Every

second that that lamp is on, it’s money

being sent to Yorgen Fenech, his fam-

ily,” and the project’s other sharehold-

“There’s one home in this area within your

ers. “Am I expected to continue doing

price range, but it has a mouse.”

this for the rest of my life? Continue

paying money to the people whose cor-

ruption led directly to my mother’s

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murder?” (Electrogas denies allegations

of corruption.)

office, a pile of flash drives with his se-

passing a contract from one entity to

By the beginning of 2017, Electrogas

cret recordings of Fenech, and a hand-

the next. “Even when you look at the had burned through a six-hundred-mil-written note:

company itself, it’s just a shell,” Matthew lion-euro loan from the Maltese state.

said. “They have maybe four staff. Four “Everyone was looking at these things I Melvin Theuma am providing this infor-people? We’re talking about a power in isolation, except my mum,” Matthew mation that I was the middleman in the case

concerning Ms. Caruana Galizia. I am relay-

station here—a country’s main source said. Had Daphne been able to coming this proof so that you will know who hired

of power.”

plete her work, “they wouldn’t have been

me and paid for the bomb. I am doing this be-

Daphne hadn’t nailed down the full able to get a new guarantee. The Euro-cause I realized that these two people, Yurgen

scale of corruption, but she had got pean Union would have raised all these Fenech and Keith Schembri il-Kasco, were

close. “I have discovered that this clique questions about the legality of it. They working to get rid of me as well. So I prepared

this proof so that if I am eliminated you will

is using a company called 17 Black, badly needed a new deal by the end of know the entire story.

which is incorporated in the United the year, to refinance the loan. So what Arab Emirates,” she wrote. The com-did they do? Murder my mother, and

The journalists working with Daph- pany was set up with the primary pur- then, literally weeks afterward, they signed ne’s files found that the contracts pose of transferring about two million a new deal.”

underlying Muscat’s power station made euros to Schembri’s and Mizzi’s Pan-little sense, except as a way of taking amanian shell companies. But, she con-public money and distributing it to share-

tinued, “the ultimate beneficial owner-

One night, before Theuma’s arrest

was made public, Muscat called

holders. “They were just robbing every-

ship of 17 Black is concealed.”

Schembri to discuss Fenech. Then

one,” Matthew told me. “It was ‘Let’s

Now

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