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		</div><p>Maltese prosecutors have charged a prominent local businessman as being an accomplice to the murder of anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in a 2017 car bombing on Malta.</p>
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<p>Yorgen Fenech, a hotelier and former director of the Maltese power company, was also charged in a court hearing on Saturday night with being an accomplice to causing the explosion that killed the 53-year-old as she drove near her home.</p>
<p>Magistrate Audrey Demicoli asked Fenech to enter pleas. He replied that he was pleading not guilty, and he was remanded in custody.</p>
<p>The reporter&#8217;s family has alleged Fenech has ties to close associates of Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, including his recently resigned chief of staff.</p>
<p>It is not clear if Mr Muscat will now resign amid increasing calls for him to do so by citizens on the island, including from Ms Caruana Galizia&#8217;s family.</p>
<p>Mr Muscat, in power since 2013, has said he will speak after the investigative case is complete.</p>
<p>Ms Caruana Galizia&#8217;s sister Corinne Vella said after the charges were announced: <em>&#8220;What we now expect is the prime minister to leave office and to leave parliament.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>Ms Vella also called for Mr Muscat and his former chief of staff, Keith Schembri, to be &#8220;properly investigated&#8221; for their &#8220;possible involvement in Daphne&#8217;s assassination&#8221;.</p>
<p>Mr Schembri quit his government post this week. He was taken into custody for questioning but later released.</p>
<p>Two of Mr Muscat&#8217;s ministers were also questioned in the case and have resigned. They, along with Mr Schembri, have said they are innocent of wrongdoing.</p>
<p>Ms Caruana Galizia wrote shortly before her death that corruption was everywhere in political and business circles in the tiny EU nation.</p>
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<p>An alleged go-between in the bombing has received immunity from prosecution for alerting authorities to Fenech&#8217;s purported involvement.</p>
<p>Three men have been in jail as the alleged bombers, but no trial date for them has been set.</p>
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