When Daphne Caruana Galizia exposed Keith Schembri and Konrad Mizzi for setting up Panama companies after they came to office in March 2013, her investigations were flatly denied. When her reporting was independently confirmed by publications made by
the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, the two were kept in office right up to November 2019.
The government first argued that Daphne’s reporting was untruthful. When that argument was no longer plausible, the government argued that there had been no wrongdoing.
Eventually, the purpose of the Panama companies would be exposed because of the discovered connection with Dubai-registered companies owned by Yorgen Fenech, who was also leading the Electrogas project.
Like John Dalli before them, Keith Schembri and Konrad Mizzi faced no material consequence after being exposed, and at the time of the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia, had and perhaps still have every reason to believe they would never face consequence at all.