Malta-based gaming firm accused of failing to declare €4 billion taxable income
Updated to include SKS365’s response. Italian police have accused
Alice Taylor
August 24, 2019 12:10
‘No adequate protective measures for Daphne Caruana Galizia’ – report
“The Mafia is a systematic threat to press freedom,”
The Shift Team
May 16, 2019 06:01
How to fail as a State
It is easy to trip up over the details
Ranier Fsadni
May 12, 2019 06:45
‘We don’t need heroes’
Anti-mafia organisation Libera dedicated its Ragusa chapter to slain
The Shift Team
May 1, 2019 18:56
The criminal underbelly
This is a guest post by Antoine P. Borg
The Shift Team
April 12, 2019 07:30
International press freedom organisations demand ‘justice for Ján’
Leading international press freedom organisations representing thousands of journalists
The Shift Team
February 20, 2019 13:33
Lack of digital skills and attractiveness thwart Malta’s digital dream
Joseph Muscat has been working hard over the last
Alice Taylor
January 12, 2019 10:13
Report maps presence of Italian mafia in foreign countries, Malta tops list
Malta is the country with the highest number of
The Shift Team
December 28, 2018 14:38
An open letter to Minister Edward Scicluna from a whistleblower
An open letter to Edward Scicluna, Finance Minister and
The Shift Team
December 27, 2018 17:00
Further arrests in anti-mafia probe involving Malta-based gaming firms
Two men who lead ‘Ndrangheta clans linked to Malta-based gaming firms
December 21, 2018 15:17
Report details how journalists are the target of criminal organisations
More than 30 journalists have been killed worldwide by
Caroline Muscat
November 30, 2018 07:40
The mafia’s new outposts
Italy’s most powerful organised crime network, the ‘Ndrangheta, has
Caroline Muscat
November 5, 2018 12:45
Suspect who paid €70,000 for Slovak journalist Ján Kuciak’s murder arrested
A female suspect paid €70,000 for the murder of
Caroline Muscat
October 1, 2018 16:13
Editor has €150 million in assets frozen by Italian police in mafia investigation
Around €150 million in assets belonging to Sicilian newspaper
The Shift Team
September 25, 2018 08:21
Six months since Jan Kuciak’s murder, journalists say they will not forget
Slovakian Journalists and editors are concerned that killers of
The Shift Team
August 21, 2018 16:14
Reporters Without Borders calls on Italian authorities to condemn death threats against journalist
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) called on the Italian authorities
July 20, 2018 15:32
Anniversary of death of anti-mafia prosecutor Paolo Borsellino
On Sunday, 19 July 1992, at around 4.57pm, a
Caroline Muscat
July 19, 2018 09:01
Italian investigative journalist receives death threat
Italian investigative journalist Marilù Mastrogiovanni has received hundreds of
July 14, 2018 12:36
Mafia behind Italy’s anti-immigrant rant
Lega Nord’s increase in popularity in Italy’s southern region
Cedric Farrugia
July 10, 2018 13:29
Press freedom: ‘Expecting the truth is the only duty we have’
Italian investigative journalist Paolo Borrometi, the recipient of journalism
Cedric Farrugia
June 22, 2018 14:36
State run by crooks for benefit of crooks
Malta’s geographical location means it has always played an
Cedric Farrugia
June 12, 2018 17:20
Oh My Treasure Island
The report published by two Italian organisations which study
Cedric Farrugia
May 27, 2018 07:19
A soulless metropolis built on dirty money 
The latest revelations coming from a New York court
May 25, 2018 14:46
Malta: the mafia’s paradise island 
‘Operation Beta’ by the Italian Carabinieri in 2017 led
Cedric Farrugia
May 13, 2018 11:35
Malta online gambling sector is becoming ‘ATM for the Italian Mafia’
Malta has been described as the “ATM for the
The Shift Team
May 11, 2018 12:24
Government attacks Archbishop for sharing The Shift News article
Labour MP Glenn Bedingfield launched an attack on Twitter
Caroline Muscat
March 31, 2018 12:48
The system we created
I’m currently reading Roberto Saviano‘s bestseller Gomorra, a book
Cedric Farrugia
March 30, 2018 15:02
Godfrey Farrugia: Online gaming due diligence ‘not stringent enough’
Following the arrest by the Italian authorities of the
February 24, 2018 14:53
Daphne Caruana Galizia is La Repubblica’s Person of the Year
Italian daily La Repubblica has named slain journalist Daphne
The Shift Team
December 21, 2017 13:19
Italy conference for Mediterranean Women Journalists dedicated to Daphne Caruana Galizia
Hate speech and sexist language targeting women journalists were
The Shift Team
November 22, 2017 17:05

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