Times of Malta has been hit by a court injunction preventing it from publishing an article about e-money firm Papaya, the newspaper wrote.
Papaya, through their legal team, said that the article the Times planned to publish would breach the company’s anti-money laundering secrecy laws.
The Times said that a hearing about the injunction was scheduled for Monday but the sitting was postponed to 13 August. It said that Papaya’s representatives asked for the case to be deferred the lawyer who filed the urgent injunction was abroad.
The newspaper said that preventing a journalist from publishing a story is recognised in all democratic countries as illegal and a violation of the right to freedom of expression.
The injunction was filed against journalist Jacob Borg, Allied Newspapers Ltd (represented by executive director Alex Galea) and Times of Malta (represented by editor-in-chief Herman Grech).