Former Malta deputy governor wins libel case
Alfred Mifsud, former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Malta, won a libel suit against late journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia on February 9. A magistrate ordered Caruana Galizia’s estate to pay Mifsud €1,000 ($1,075).
In a June 2016 blog post, Caruana Galizia accused Mifsud of accepting bribes when he was chair of Mid-Med Bank in the 1990s. In return for payments from a US software company, she said Mifsud chose them for an IT contract.
At the time of publication, Mifsud was deputy
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