A maltese businessman who is the prime suspect in a case of journalistdrab in 2017, will not get immunity.

the government of Malta has not going to give immunity to the prime suspect in a case relating to the killing of a journalist back in 2017.

This was stated by the Maltese prime minister, Joseph Muscat, Friday after a lengthy meeting. According to the news agency Reuters began the meeting at eight o'clock on Thursday evening and lasted until a little before three o'clock on the night of Friday.

Muscat said that he is going to be on the record until the investigation is complete. It writes the british newspaper the Guardian.

Rigmanden Yorgen Fenech, one of Malta's most prominent businessmen, were arrested last week.

He is the police's prime suspect in the case of a killing of a journalist in 2017.

the Yorgen Fenech had offered to tell everything he knows about the case, in exchange for immunity from being prosecuted.

But among other things, at the invitation of the country's rigsadvokat and Malta, the police commissioner rejected the government rigmandens request.

Earlier in the week, entered the chief of staff of the government Keith Schembri back. The day after he was arrested in connection with the investigation.

the 53-year-old Daphne Caruana Galizia, who among other things wrote about corruption, was killed in a bilbombeangreb near Malta's capital, Valletta, in October 2017.

the Three men who are suspected of having carried out the attack, were arrested in december 2017. The authorities have so far not been able to determine who orchestrated the killing.

In the course of the week, the development in the case had the government of Malta to crumble.

in Addition to chief of staff Keith Schembri announced the country's tourism minister, Konrad Mizzi, on Tuesday that he would leave the government. Mizzi was among the rulers, like Daphne Caruana Galizia wrote critical stories about.

Malta's minister for the economy Christian Cardona, has Kralbet chosen to suspend himself from the government until the investigation into the murder is completed.

/ritzau/AFP