Man convicted of bombing, killing Malta investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galicia

Two men were convicted in Malta to supply explosives that killed journalists Daphne Caruana Galizia In 2017 in the Mediterranean Island State.

After a six-week trial, Robert Agius, 41, and Jamie Vella, 42, were both convicted. Assassination Military-grade explosives used in car bombing near her home, the 53-year-old investigative journalist.

They are expected to be sentenced early next week, and prosecutors ask them to jail.

The three killers who carried out the murders - the George Brothers and the Alfred Dediogio Brothers and Vince Muscat - have been convicted.

Malta Delana Galicia Malta trial — Flowers and candles are located in front of the portrait of the murdered investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia during a vigil outside the courthouse in Valletta, Malta on Tuesday, October 16, 2018. Jonathan Borg/AP

Muscat agreed to testify against them to reduce sentences and pardon the solitary murder, Ajius and Vera were arrested four years after the murder.

Muscat is also the leading witness to the latest prosecutor, with more than 150 testifying before a jury, including relatives of Caruana Galizia, members of the FBI and former government minister.

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Malta also protested fiercely against Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, who believes efforts to protect friends and allies from investigations. He announced his resignation in December 2019.

one Public inquiry was released in 2021 No evidence of the state's participation in the assassination of Caruana Galizia was found, but the government found that a "immolation of impunity" was created for those who wanted to silence her.

The Caruana Galizia family said in a statement that the latest beliefs brought them "close to justice."

"However, eight years after Daphne's brutal assassination, the agency failure that left her murder still remains unsuppressed and unreformed," they said.

Caruana Galizia, known as the "single-person Wikileaks", has reported on money laundering, bribery and Corruption in Malta 30 years. She ruthlessly hunts down politicians in her own country on her blog.

"She knows the powerful people she is writing about are closing her," Galicia's son Paul told 60 minutes after her death. "They are using every possible means to shut her down. She knows this, which makes her deeply scared."

The Degiorgio brothers served 40 years in prison for murder, while Muscat was sentenced to 15 years in jail.

Topshot-Malta-Press-Crime-Crime-Crustion-Politics-Maltafiles — Police and forensic experts examined the wreckage of a car bomb that killed journalist and blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia, who killed him near his home in Bidnija, Malta on October 16, 2017. str/afp via Getty Images

Yorgen Fenech, a businessman with close ties to the Joseph Muscat government, is still waiting for trial to plot the murder.

He was arrested on a yacht in November 2019 and he tried to drive out of Malta. He was released on bail in January 2025 and has no date yet.