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Speaker 1: Malta's institutions are deliberately being undermined, weakened and destroyed to

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Speaker 1: allow corruption and criminality to flourish. Those who voted for

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Speaker 1: this mess have a great deal to be ashamed of.

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Speaker 2: Strasbourg. The European Parliament Clean Recession of twenty fourth of

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Speaker 2: October twenty seventeen. Parliament President Antonio Tajani approaches the central

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Speaker 2: podium and signals for quiet. Comes as President.

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Speaker 3: Gome Chittadino, as a citizen com journalista, as a journalist, Volo.

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Speaker 2: Esprit used to express my indignation.

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Speaker 3: Indign brutal at the brutal assassination Didne Gwana Galizi.

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Speaker 2: Of Deafnite Karwana Galitzia.

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Speaker 4: This is not normal business for the European Parliament. It's

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Speaker 4: rare for the Parliament to discuss an individual murder case

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Speaker 4: in one of its member states, but today it's happening.

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Speaker 3: Quiborns her family and the galleries, her husband, her three sons,

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Speaker 3: alongside them, along with thousands of Montice are demonstrated in

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Speaker 4: The camera pans up to the observer's gallery, showing Daphne's widower,

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Speaker 4: Pisa and her three sons Matthew, Andrew and Paul, sitting

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Speaker 4: together dressed in suits and ties, blank faced, barely begun

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Speaker 4: to grieve. It's just ten days since Daphne's murder. Daphne's

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Speaker 4: middle son, Andrew, still remembers this speech.

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Speaker 5: Yes, I remember it. It's actually strangely nice to see

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Speaker 4: It's impossible to imagine the strength that it must take

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Speaker 4: before Daphnitely has even been buried. But this parliamentary session

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Speaker 4: in Strasbourg does matter for us.

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Speaker 5: That was a turning point when we moved from grieving

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Speaker 6: It was a very conscious decision.

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Speaker 5: It was against everything that our emotions were telling us

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Speaker 5: family into essentially professional lobbyists.

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Speaker 2: That switch from grief to campaigning is the first step

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Speaker 2: in a new and unusual strategy to bring Daphne's killers

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Speaker 2: of Mota's compromised institutions and divided culture. But it takes

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Speaker 5: We were turning up with speaking points about the rule

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Speaker 5: in doing so, we were in a way dehumanizing our

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Speaker 5: we were turning ourselves into campaigners rather than grieving sons.

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Speaker 2: So far, we've heard about two routes for Dafnese killers

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Speaker 2: to be caught, First through the official police investigation, second

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Speaker 2: through political pressure from the protest movement in Dafnese's memory,

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Speaker 2: the sit ins and marches in Valletta and the gatherings

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Speaker 2: among ordinary Matese people. But the family know that on

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Speaker 2: their own both these approaches are flawed, open to political manipulation,

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Speaker 2: government here in Strasbourg. On the international stage, the odds

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Speaker 2: might be different here in Strasbourg Moreta's elite might find

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Speaker 4: Ultimately, this new strategy will produce breakthroughs in the case

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Speaker 4: that would never have happened otherwise, and will bring the

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Speaker 4: family close of an ever to finding out who ordered

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Speaker 3: No silin and we will not remain Sanscobert, we must.

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Speaker 2: See the perpetrators of this murder brought to justice. From

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Speaker 2: iHeart Podcasts, Topic studios and vespoci. I'm Manuel Delia and

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Speaker 2: I'm John Sweeney and this is Crooks Everywhere, Episode seven,

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Speaker 2: The bad Signal.

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Speaker 4: Sir Dafne is have decided to try and make this

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Speaker 4: Foreign news, except for wars, rarely makes the front page

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Speaker 2: And the family are painfully aware of that, aware that

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Speaker 4: I worked on the story of Daphne's murder for the BBC.

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Speaker 4: I knew that from the point of view of my bosses,

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Speaker 4: this was a compelling story they wanted to cover, but

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Speaker 4: As the months wore on, the chances of identifying the

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Speaker 4: perpetrators seemed pretty slim. An unsolvable murder in a small

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Speaker 2: Please all that said, I think Daphne's family do have

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Speaker 7: I've worked on a number of cases over the years

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Speaker 2: Robert Vincent works for Reporters with Borders, a charity that

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Speaker 7: The world, and I often work closely with families in

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Speaker 7: these campaigns. Not every family is able to speak out

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Speaker 2: The ace of the sleeve is the family itself, and

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Speaker 2: there's set of skills.

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Speaker 7: So Matthew was an award winning journalist. I think he

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Speaker 2: And then there's Andrew Dafnie Middleson, who we've already heard from.

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Speaker 7: Andrew is always known as the diplomat because he had

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Speaker 2: Paul, the youngest brother, was at that time living in

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Speaker 4: So a diplomat and two journalists, all with international connections.

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Speaker 2: team members. He is a lawyer and she's a pr consultant,

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Speaker 2: also useful skills. This is Andrew the diplomat, And what.

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Speaker 5: Me and my family realized very early on in Malta

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Speaker 5: was that international pressure was not only our only hope

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Speaker 5: it was actually our most powerful lever, more powerful than say,

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Speaker 4: But that raises the same question, how do you get

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Speaker 2: One possibility is the focus on the European Union's idea

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Speaker 5: Malta is such a small country, it's so dependent on

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Speaker 2: Bluntly, we Maltese need Europe more than Europe needs.

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Speaker 5: Us, but so so dependent on international partnerships that it's

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Speaker 2: One really important example our economy depends on international finance

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Speaker 4: Which means a public tribute to Japanese's work in the

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Speaker 2: So the first weeks after Dapnese's death go by, the

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Speaker 2: the Georgia's become increasingly worried, gradually realizing that this isn't

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Speaker 4: And that's when Daphne's family decide to make solving Daphanese

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Speaker 2: Everywhere and here Daphne's son, Matthew the journalist, has a

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Speaker 2: piece of luck. An international organization has just been formed

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Speaker 6: An organization called Forbidden Stories.

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Speaker 2: The idea is that when a journalist is persecuted or murdered,

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Speaker 2: a global bet signal is sent out to other investigative

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Speaker 6: Because we thought that the stories should not die with

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Speaker 4: So by murdering Daphne, her killers are multiplying theumber of

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Speaker 2: Attracting even more attention to her work and her stories,

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Speaker 2: might be. The journalists that forbidden stories called their new

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Speaker 2: journalistic coalition the Deafnite Project, and they start by digging

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Speaker 2: deep into Dafnie's archive of old investigations.

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Speaker 6: When Dafnit was killed, this was the natural thing to

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Speaker 6: this is our case. Let's try to assemble a team

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Speaker 6: they don't get away with that, that the stories are

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Speaker 2: The hope of the Deafney project is that clues to

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Speaker 2: and it turned out that hunch was correct. Within her

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Speaker 1: Feb Second, twenty sixteen. If the Panama hat fits, wear it.

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Speaker 2: But the clues are deeply buried. I remember when Dafney

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Speaker 2: published this blog post eighteen months before her death, the

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Speaker 1: Conrad Mitzi has found a hat that fits him.

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Speaker 4: It includes a large stop photo of a Panama hat,

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Speaker 4: up of cryptic and sarcastic messages about a government minister

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Speaker 4: called Conrad Mitzi, Walter's Health and Energy minister.

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Speaker 1: Take this as a genuine warning, I am not at

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Speaker 2: Twenty minutes later I definitely posted another puzzle. This one

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Speaker 2: Zealand lamb at Easter.

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Speaker 1: When I say I have an international, worldwide network of spies,

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Speaker 1: I'm not quite joking, but sadly I can't say more

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Speaker 2: Too hats lambs. The government minister the truth was definitely

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Speaker 2: had got access to an incredible scoope through her son

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Speaker 2: Matthew's work. You might remember the Panama Papers, a huge

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Speaker 2: global story where millions of confidential finds from a secret

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Speaker 2: of firm in Panama were leaked to the press. What

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Speaker 2: we now know is that Daphanie had got an early viewing.

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Speaker 4: The Panama Papers were a huge deal for the kind

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Speaker 4: of work I do, investigations into corrupt regimes. They gave

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Speaker 4: us a roadmap to the complex global arrangements that super

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Speaker 4: wealthy individuals use to keep their wealth secret, how rich

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Speaker 4: crooks avoid taxes and sanctions and money laundering investigations and

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Speaker 4: journalists with questions. In my work on Putins Russia, the

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Speaker 4: publication of the papers was a game changer, one of

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Speaker 4: those rare times where for a moment, a whole hidden

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Speaker 4: world is revealed.

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Speaker 2: One hundred and forty three politicians from around the world

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Speaker 2: And Deafney's sneak preview revealed that the Panama Papers included

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Speaker 4: The global financial equivalent of buying a brand new piggybank

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Speaker 1: February twenty fourth, twenty sixteen. Conrad Mitzi's so called shell

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Speaker 1: if he had told you that he had incorporated it

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Speaker 2: These are expensive bigurebanks. They cost money to set up

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Speaker 1: No accountant or financial consultant would ever advise a client

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Speaker 4: And daphnely didn't stop with mister Mitzi.

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Speaker 1: February twenty seventh, twenty sixteen. Breaking now, Conrad Mitzi and

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Speaker 4: The Panama Papers revealed that he also had a secret

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Speaker 1: The agreements that made Schambrie beneficiary of his trust and

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Speaker 4: Labor Party in Malta, one power suggesting that this might

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Speaker 2: There was a third asset concealing structure revealed by Dafne

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Speaker 4: I mean nothing says honest democratic government like a secret

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Speaker 2: Yeah, probably not. An arrangement at your High Street bank

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Speaker 4: So I think there's something we should address here. For me,

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Speaker 4: that makes this kind of story really hard to report on.

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Speaker 4: And yet the secret bribes and kickbacks that politicians take

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Speaker 2: Which company is within, which trust or paid for? Which

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Speaker 4: And when I've realized this, none of this confusion, this

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Speaker 2: And that is exactly how it feels trying to pin

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Speaker 2: you see something yourself, but so much complexity has been

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Speaker 8: It's almost tangible in a sense.

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Speaker 2: Here's Nicole Maelak, a journalist at the Multa Today newspaper.

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Speaker 8: Everyone was talking about this because how can you not

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Speaker 2: The opposition party called Defnie Discoveries the biggest scandal and

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Speaker 8: It didn't feel right to even like go to a

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Speaker 2: For a moment it looked as though possibly the whole

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Speaker 8: It raised eyebrows. Obviously on one hand, it's like, what

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Speaker 2: Conrad Mitzi at first claimed that he had done nothing

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Speaker 2: Keach Cambri had a different set of explanations for his

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Speaker 4: When someone accuses you of a great crime, you don't

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Speaker 4: Take Stalin's man made famine in nineteen thirty three, which

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Speaker 2: And like Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, Joseph Muscat went

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Speaker 2: But the approach of trying to discredit Daphne was harder

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Speaker 2: Minister Mouscat explained his DESI the Panama affair hurt us

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Speaker 1: March second, twenty sixteen, excuse my language. Here, but nothing

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Speaker 1: don't these just go on themselves? How I got the

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Speaker 4: Sadly, it wasn't over. It was only just the beginning.

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Speaker 4: But somewhere in Malta, Daphne's future killer, mister alleged Mastermind,

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Speaker 2: To understand a little better just what definitely was discovering

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Speaker 4: So beautiful day. There's an island with barely a building

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Speaker 6: What's it called so?

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Speaker 2: And what is it is called? Camuna? Probably a corruption

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Speaker 4: So why do you're checking me here? There's some kind

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Speaker 2: I know you I am. So you see on the

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Speaker 4: Okay, So I get the history lesson, But why exactly

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Speaker 2: Because I think this story from two three hundred years

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Speaker 4: It's a good place to hide it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a good place to hide for a while.

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Speaker 2: Let the waters come down. People look away, and then

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Speaker 2: you're stolen stuff for a while, keep it hidden, and

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Speaker 2: then bring it out when it's safe to do so.

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Speaker 4: Aha. So listen, I mean, if we went across and

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Speaker 4: found these eighteenth century caves, you'd hear an echo, and

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Speaker 4: there's an echo of the past. So the whole country,

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Speaker 4: the whole archipelago, is a place where there are echoes

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Speaker 4: from the past. And if you listen carefully enough to

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Speaker 4: those echoes from the past, I tell you something about

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Speaker 4: now the twenty first century. More they do time for

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Speaker 4: an ice cream.

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Speaker 2: So years after the Panama Paper scandal, after Dafnie's death,

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Speaker 2: after the Definite Projects send up their bet signal for

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Speaker 2: other international journalists to start investigating her stories, Bastiano Bermeyer

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Speaker 2: and the Definitey Project team find they had a problem Malta,

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Speaker 2: too many pirates and too many hidden caves to look into.

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Speaker 6: The big problem that we were facing in Morta after

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Speaker 6: Dughness murder was that there were so many people who

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Speaker 6: would want her dad essentially where to start, which is

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Speaker 6: a crazy thing for this small island. So when we

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Speaker 6: looked around and we thought would have a motive. You know,

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Speaker 6: easily we counted to four or five, six very influential

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Speaker 6: figures who did have a good motive to want her dad.

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Speaker 4: This is the same culture shop for I experienced when

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Speaker 4: I first learned about this story. And in fact we

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Speaker 4: know that mister alleged Mastermind used this idea to try

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Speaker 4: and reassure Melvin the Middleman at times, telling him that

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Speaker 4: Definitely had offended so many people that they would never

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Speaker 4: find the real killers.

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Speaker 6: The biggest issue was that we were following four or

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Speaker 6: five stories at the same time, and literally each of

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Speaker 6: those stories could have been the one that was responsibly

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Speaker 6: the end for her killing, because one of the persons

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Speaker 6: involved in that story would have said, it's enough now,

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Speaker 6: we need to stop her now for good.

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Speaker 2: But the scale of the task didn't deter the Definite

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Speaker 2: Project's investigators. Teams from the New York Times, Britain's Guardian, newspaper,

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Speaker 2: Francis Paper of Record, Lamonde, and Italy's La Republica, the

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Speaker 2: news agency Reuters and others were all digging at the

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Speaker 2: same time.

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Speaker 4: And they did make progress. Stories that Definitely had hinted

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Speaker 4: that were developed and taken further investigations into a corrupt

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Speaker 4: scheme to allow wealthy foreigners to buy mult citizenship, for example,

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Speaker 4: and revelations about corrupt gas fials with the ruling elite

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Speaker 4: in Azerbaijan.

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Speaker 2: In virtually every major policy initiative that was launched by

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Speaker 2: Joseph Moscart's government after it came to power in twenty thirteen,

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Speaker 2: Deafney reported shady dealings. Considered Defnie's reporting on the transfer

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Speaker 2: of the management of some of Molta's public hospitals to

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Speaker 2: private operators. Basically, the government would pay the salaries for

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Speaker 2: medical staff and pay the new managers a daily fee

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Speaker 2: to refurbish the hospitals and provide medical care. Defney had

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Speaker 2: her own views about how the health system should be run,

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Speaker 2: but that wasn't the bit that bothered her most. The

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Speaker 2: government transferred the running of the hospitals to a shady

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Speaker 2: sacials company, its owners, unknown, its financial basis and mystery,

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Speaker 2: and with no evidence of any experience in running hospitals

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Speaker 2: anywhere in the world. Muscat and his government promised the

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Speaker 2: privatization of the hospital's management would improve the quality of

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Speaker 2: healthcare for mortice people. Not what you'd expect socialists to

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Speaker 2: be saying, but Muscat was no ordinary socialist. There were

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Speaker 2: promises of rebuilt facilities, world class medical care services. Oh good,

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Speaker 2: people would be flying to more that to have their

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Speaker 2: scheduled surgeries done here.

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Speaker 4: Jafneg denounced the scheme as a sham, a cover for

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Speaker 4: some behind the scenes swindle. She didn't have all the details,

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Speaker 4: but as usual, her intuition was on the money to

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Speaker 4: coin a phrase. By the time she was killed, the

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Speaker 4: hospitals had got barely a fresh lick of paint. Wards

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Speaker 4: were abandoned, doors collapsed, roofs leaked. Months after Daphney was killed,

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Speaker 4: the mysterious managers of the hospitals went bust. The governments

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Speaker 4: had a contractual right to claim the hospital's back, but

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Speaker 4: they didn't do that.

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Speaker 2: No, the faceless and ostensibly bankrupt managers of the hospitals

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Speaker 2: were allowed to sell the concession on. The new managers

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Speaker 2: would be a recognized healthcare brand from America.

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Speaker 4: Did the hospitals get their fresh lick of paint?

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Speaker 2: Barely a drop? That's at the same time as between them,

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Speaker 2: the first private hospital managers and their American successors collected

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Speaker 2: nearly half a billion euro in payments from the mortis authorities.

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Speaker 4: In those first six months after Daphne was killed, reporters

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Speaker 4: from the Daphne Project found the stories about passports for crooks,

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Speaker 4: blindingly expensive gas steals, and abandoned hospitals interesting, to be sure,

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Speaker 4: but there was nothing that pointed clearly to the real

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Speaker 4: culprit in Daphne's murder. For now, mister alleged mastermind could

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Speaker 4: rest easy. The stalemate must have been frustrating for the

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Speaker 4: Daphne Project and Daphne's other supporters like you Manuel.

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Speaker 2: It was it almost seemed that the grand strategy of

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Speaker 2: Daphne's family to use international pressure and international journalism to

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Speaker 2: find Daphne's killer was leading nowhere. On that one measure,

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Speaker 2: the bat signal hadn't worked. But there was one question

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Speaker 2: that hadn't yet been explored, and it also concerned the

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Speaker 2: Panama Papers. Daphanie's reporting had proved that two senior government

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Speaker 2: ministers and another unnamed person had all simultaneously created elaborate

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Speaker 2: hidden piggybanks to hide assets in. But what she hadn't

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Speaker 2: revealed was why, What was the big payday that these

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Speaker 2: politicians were expecting to receive and from whom? And solving

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Speaker 2: that mystery will lead Daphne's family and Deafney Project straight

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Speaker 2: to the man who is believed to have ordered her murder.

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Speaker 2: The man we are calling for now, mister alleged Mastermind.

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Speaker 2: For now, though mister alleged Mastermind has other problems, problems

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Speaker 2: with the man he allegedly hired to do the killing.

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Speaker 4: The strain of keeping this murder secret is beginning to tell,

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Speaker 4: and the once unimaginable betrayal is now coming.

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Speaker 6: That's next.

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Speaker 2: Crooks Everywhere is a production of iHeart Podcasts, Topic Studios

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Speaker 2: and Vespucci. It's reported and hosted by me Manuel Delia

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Speaker 2: and John Sweeney. The senior producer is Leo Hornack. The

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Speaker 2: producer is Maddie Hickish. Krish Denesh Kumar is the assistant producer.

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Speaker 2: The story editors are Emma Federill, Matt Willis, and Philippa Geering.

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Speaker 2: The managing producers are Thomas Curry and Rachel Byrne. The

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Speaker 2: voice of daf Nick Carvana Galizia is played by Ciena Miller,

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Speaker 2: acting direction by Christopher Houten, Multie voices by Mikael basma

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Speaker 2: Jan and Pierre staff Raj. The executive producers are Johnny

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Speaker 2: Galvin and Daniel Turken at Vespucci, Christi Gressman at Topic Studios,

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Speaker 2: Wardoor Studios. Audio mix and sound design by Joel Cox.

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Speaker 2: Special thanks to Andrew Botchcardona Alessandra di Crespo, Eddie Isles,

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Speaker 2: and Andrew Carna Galizia