The suspects were also charged with criminal use of explosives, being involved in organised crime, and criminal conspiracy. Muscat was a common subject for Caruana Galizia, who was a relentless campaigner against corruption in Malta. Searches that were conducted during dawn raids had yielded a number of items that would help with ongoing investigations, the police said. George Degiorgio was previously charged in court with possession of unlicensed firearms, drugs and tools that could be used to pick locks. The most significant investigations by the murdered journalist stemmed from the Panama Papers, a leak of documents from the archives of the offshore law firm Mossack Fonseca.

Source: The Guardian December 05, 2017 22:09 UTC