A Dubai bank shuttered accounts earlier this year of a secret offshore company b...
LONDON - A Dubai bank shuttered accounts earlier this year of a secret offshore company belonging to a Maltese businessman since charged with the murder of an investigative journalist, two banking officials have said.
The banking officials told Reuters that prior to the murder accusation, Noor Bank had handed Fenech two cheques totaling 6.1 million dirhams when in April 2019 it closed the accounts established in the name 17 Black. Fenech declined to say whether he owned 17 Black when Reuters published its story in November 2018. The two cheques in his name are the first documented evidence that connects him to the company. His lawyers did not respond to requests for comment on the two cheques.
Another senior UAE financial official, who declined to be named, also told Reuters the cheques were authentic.The copies of the cheques were passed by an anonymous source to the Daphne Project, a group of media organizations, including Reuters, that has continued some of Caruana Galizia’s work and is coordinated by Forbidden Stories, an NGO in Paris.
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