Introducing: Crooks Everywhere

Crooks Everywhere exposes the plot to assassinate Daphne Caruana Galizia, a Maltese journalist who spent her life fighting for truth, justice, and decency in a country overrun by corruption.

Join investigative journalists Manuel Delia and John Sweeney as they uncover the mystery behind Daphne’s murder and reveal the shocking discoveries that the killers were trying to silence. Because of the extent of her investigations, Daphne had many enemies, but only now, seven years later, has the truth of her assassination come to light.

Listen and discover how Malta came to be a place where crime and politics merge, where murder became a commonplace currency, and where one woman sacrificed everything to speak the truth.

Daphne’s fearless voice is brought to life by Sienna Miller, who reads extracts from this inimitable journalist.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Definitely. Karwana Galicia was a Maltese investigative journalist and blogger
who spent her life fighting for truth, justice and decency
in a country overrun by corruption. But on October sixteen,
twenty seventeen, she was assassinated. Eric Crooks everywhere you look.
Now the situation is desperate.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Malta is a tourist paradise, but underneath its extraordinary beauty,
there are some dark, dark shadows. This is a place
where dark power and dark money likes to hang out.
And if you try and tell truth to that dark
money and that dark part, if you're a journalist, it
can be a very dangerous place. Indeed, there were a

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sleep in their own beds and somebody piled rubber tires
at the back of the house and set them alight.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
These are five car bombs within the space of a year,
and thing was done about it.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
I was shaking.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
It was a mixture of anger and fear from iHeart podcasts,
Topic studios and Vespucci. This is Crooks everywhere. My name
is Manuel Delia, former political operative turn journalist.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
I'm John Sweeney, a former BBC journalist and investigative reporter.
Together we unravel a web of deception, exposing the dangerous
forces at play in Malta. I need to be careful
how to word this, but he definitely uses contacts in governments.
That was the mindset.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Once I have the money, once I'm so rich, i
am untouchabil. It's not just about solving a murder, but
I'm pecking the most up to date information that exposes
the dangerous intermingling of politics and organized crime in Martime,
A story that transcends borders, echoing the challenges faced by
democracies worldwide.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
This is a story that has lessons for every country
where power and money use crime to settle scores. And
that's why this story matters whether your Maltese or not.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
This is the story of how my home, a smaller
European democracy, came to be a place where the criminals
set the rules, where crime and politics merge, a place
where some people can literally get away with murder. Crooks
everywhere Starting September twenty fifth on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,

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or wherever you get your podcasts.