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If she released those papers, she ruined a lot of people. Yeah, she was doing her job as a journo but the guy who will lose $500 mil to taxes /fines and go to j

If she released those papers, she ruined a lot of people. Yeah, she was doing her job as a journo but the guy who will lose $500 mil to taxes /fines and go to jail for 20 years doesn't care much about semantics. Princes, Prime Ministers, royal families, mafia bosses, banking execs, spies, ministers...you name it, Panama papers had them. It doesn't take much to kill an average person, they know who to call.

neaden 9y ago
She didn't release the Panama Papers, that was an anonymous source to the German reporter Bastian Obermayer. She read the papers and connected them to some local figures in Malta, so presumably whoever murdered her was Maltese or had some business dealings there. Edit: I think it's important to keep in mind too that Malta has an organized crime presence. In fact it looks like there were three car bombings in Malta last year. http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/national/71110/explosion_hits_st_pauls_bay#.WeUfMFtSxaQ http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/national/71110/explosion_h...
lobster_johnson 9y ago
The Sicilian mafia has a strong presence on Malta. A local told me that when Italy cracked down hard on the mafia, many moved their base of operations there, especially to launder money. As a result, Malta has seen a lot of mafia-related violence the last decade [1], with 2013-2016 seeing a record 16 murders, almost all of them unsolved. The violence is crazy considering how tiny the country is, and its urban area is mostly confined to a 10-mile stretch of the east coast. You have to assume, at this point, that the mafia is tightly intertwined with local politics. [1] http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2016-11-01/local-news/A-look-at-Mafia-style-murders-in-Malta-in-the-last-decade-6736165961 http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2016-11-01/local-news...

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If she released those papers, she ruined a lot of people. Yeah, she was doing her job as a journo but the guy who will lose $500 mil to taxes /fines and go to j

by tryingagainbro 9y ago

neaden 9y ago
She didn't release the Panama Papers, that was an anonymous source to the German reporter Bastian Obermayer. She read the papers and connected them to some local figures in Malta, so presumably whoever murdered her was Maltese or had some business dealings there. Edit: I think it's important to keep in mind too that Malta has an organized crime presence. In fact it looks like there were three car bombings in Malta last year. http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/national/71110/explosion_hits_st_pauls_bay#.WeUfMFtSxaQ http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/national/71110/explosion_h...
lobster_johnson 9y ago
The Sicilian mafia has a strong presence on Malta. A local told me that when Italy cracked down hard on the mafia, many moved their base of operations there, especially to launder money. As a result, Malta has seen a lot of mafia-related violence the last decade [1], with 2013-2016 seeing a record 16 murders, almost all of them unsolved. The violence is crazy considering how tiny the country is, and its urban area is mostly confined to a 10-mile stretch of the east coast. You have to assume, at this point, that the mafia is tightly intertwined with local politics. [1] http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2016-11-01/local-news/A-look-at-Mafia-style-murders-in-Malta-in-the-last-decade-6736165961 http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2016-11-01/local-news...