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Speaker 1: Definitely. Karwana Galicia was a Maltese investigative journalist and blogger

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Speaker 1: who spent her life fighting for truth, justice and decency

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Speaker 1: in a country overrun by corruption. But on October sixteen,

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Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, she was assassinated. Eric Crooks everywhere you look.

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Speaker 1: Now the situation is desperate.

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Speaker 2: Malta is a tourist paradise, but underneath its extraordinary beauty,

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Speaker 2: there are some dark, dark shadows. This is a place

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Speaker 2: where dark power and dark money likes to hang out.

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Speaker 2: And if you try and tell truth to that dark

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Speaker 2: money and that dark part, if you're a journalist, it

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Speaker 2: can be a very dangerous place. Indeed, there were a

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Speaker 2: sleep in their own beds and somebody piled rubber tires

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Speaker 2: at the back of the house and set them alight.

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Speaker 1: These are five car bombs within the space of a year,

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Speaker 1: and thing was done about it.

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Speaker 2: I was shaking.

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Speaker 1: It was a mixture of anger and fear from iHeart podcasts,

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Speaker 1: Topic studios and Vespucci. This is Crooks everywhere. My name

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Speaker 1: is Manuel Delia, former political operative turn journalist.

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Speaker 2: I'm John Sweeney, a former BBC journalist and investigative reporter.

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Speaker 2: Together we unravel a web of deception, exposing the dangerous

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Speaker 2: forces at play in Malta. I need to be careful

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Speaker 2: how to word this, but he definitely uses contacts in governments.

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Speaker 2: That was the mindset.

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Speaker 1: Once I have the money, once I'm so rich, i

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Speaker 1: am untouchabil. It's not just about solving a murder, but

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Speaker 1: I'm pecking the most up to date information that exposes

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Speaker 1: the dangerous intermingling of politics and organized crime in Martime,

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Speaker 1: A story that transcends borders, echoing the challenges faced by

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Speaker 1: democracies worldwide.

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Speaker 2: This is a story that has lessons for every country

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Speaker 2: where power and money use crime to settle scores. And

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Speaker 2: that's why this story matters whether your Maltese or not.

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Speaker 1: This is the story of how my home, a smaller

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Speaker 1: European democracy, came to be a place where the criminals

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Speaker 1: set the rules, where crime and politics merge, a place

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Speaker 1: where some people can literally get away with murder. Crooks

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Speaker 1: everywhere Starting September twenty fifth on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,

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Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.