Court rejects Yorgen Fenech’s bid to revoke €5 million garnishee order
Yorgen Fenech has failed in his bid to revoke a €5 million garnishee order, issued by a court to secure a claim for damages by the heirs of the journalist in whose murder he stands charged as an accomplice. The husband and sons of Daphne Caruana Galizia filed an action for moral and material damages against the businessman, alleged hitmen George and Alfred Degiorgio and Vincent Muscat, as well as self-confessed middleman Melvin Theuma over their roles in the October 2017 car bomb explosion that killed the journalist. Fenech had argued that the precautionary warrant was not only excessive but also unjustified, calling on the court to strike it down. Such a warrant could be totally or partially revoked if any of the reasons justifying its issue, ceased to exist, observed the First Hall, Civil Court, presided over by Madam Justice Anna Felice. However, in this case, Fenech had put forward no evidence to prove any change of circumstances, observed the court, adding that the reasons justifying such garnishee order remained unchanged. The applicant had also claimed that the value secured by the warrant was excessive, pointing out that there had been no mention of the €5 million...