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A Greek court has refused to extradite to Malta a whistleblower who helped a murdered Maltese journalist investigate money-laundering in high places.

Malta wants to arrest Russian former bank employee Maria Efimova for allegedly providing false evidence that could lead to another's conviction, making false accusations to authorities, and theft.

The Russian whistleblower Maria Efimova, who is being detained in a prison in Thebes after her arrest on March 20 by Greek authorities executing two European arrest warrants, explains in an interview with Kathimerini how she fed information to the murdered Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, helping her reveal the alleged corruption at Pilatus Bank.

Anti-corruption activists in Malta said on Tuesday they had written to Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras urging him to grant asylum to a Russian woman who blew the whistle on alleged wrongdoing at Malta-based Pilatus Bank.

The woman, Maria Efimova, fled Malta after the car-bomb murder of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, who had identified her as one of her sources.

A former bank employee who ignited a political scandal in Malta when she became a source for an investigative journalist who was murdered last year has surrendered to Greek police and been arrested at Malta's request, a senior Greek police official said on Tuesday.

Maria Efimova, a Russian whistleblower who fed information about secret bank accounts in Malta to murdered Maltese blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia, surrendered to Greek authorities on Monday night.

Saying that she was in fear of her life, the former Pilatus Bank employee reportedly turned herself in to police at Athens's central Syntgama Square metro station.

Malta’s prime minister has announced the arrest of eight suspects in the Oct. 16 murder of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.

Maltese blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia, who accused her country's government of corruption, has been the victim of a bomb placed under her car, world media reported.

A Maltese investigative journalist who exposed her island nation’s links to offshore tax havens through the leaked Panama Papers has been killed after a bomb exploded in her car.

The Committee to Protect Journalists called on authorities in Malta to swiftly ensure justice for Daphne Caruana Galizia, a prominent blogger killed on Monday.

The car that Caruana Galizia was driving exploded near to her house in Bidnija, in the north of the island, media reported.