Yorgen Fenech

Yorgen Fenech (born 23 November 1981) is a Maltese businessman whose main interests are casinos and hotels in Malta, and a suspect facing criminal charges in multiple proceedings for murder, corruption, money laundering, and the illicit purchase of firearms and poison. He was head of the Tumas Group and director of the Maltese-Azerbaijan-German company ElectroGas Malta.

Suspected of bribing members of the Maltese government, in November 2019 Fenech was arrested as a suspect in the murder of the investigative-journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. He is a key figure in the 2019 Malta political crisis and 2019 protests in Malta. Fenech stands charged with murder and membership of a criminal group, and is also facing criminal proceedings relating to corruption and money laundering together with the former head of the Malta Police Force anti-money laundering unit; money laundering in connection with Glimmer Ltd of which he is a co-owner; the purchase of grenades, pistols, and poison from the dark web; and misappropriation in connection with a phantom government job given to self-confessed murder middleman, Melvin Theuma. Fenech is set to face criminal charges over plans for payments from his secret offshore company, 17 Black, via secret offshore financial structures to government officials identified in the Panama Papers. Encrypted messages between Ray Aquilina, the former head of the Malta Police Force's anti-money laundering unit, and Fenech, recovered from Fenech's phone, indicated a relationship between the two at a time when the police were meant to be investigating Fenech's Dubai company 17 Black. All concerned have pleaded not guilty to all pending charges.