The men were convicted of providing the bomb that killed the investigating journalist Dafni Karawana Galizia in Malta

Two men in Malta were convicted of providing explosives that killed the journalist Dafni Karwana Galizia In the state of the Mediterranean Island in 2017.

After a six -week trial, Robert Agios, 41, and Jimmy Villa, 42, were convicted late on Thursday in collusion in Assassination Among the 53 -year -old correspondence is by providing military explosives used in the cage near her home.

They are expected to be sentenced to early next week, as public prosecutors requested that they get a lifetime prison.

He has already been convicted of the three who killed – the brothers George George and Alfred Digurgio with Vinces Moscat -.

Agios and Villa were arrested four years after the killing, after Muscat agreed to the testimony against them in exchange for a decrease in prison sentence in that case, and an amnesty for a separate murder.

Muscat was also the main witness to the trial at the end of it, as more than 150 people witnessed the jury, including the relatives of Karwana Galizia, members of the FBI and a former government minister.

Karawana Galizia, who wrote about favoritism and slowness within the political and commercial elite in Malta, killed international anger.

There were also major protests in Malta against Prime Minister Joseph Muscat for his concerted efforts to protect friends and allies from the investigation. He announced his resignation in December 2019.

A The general investigation was published in 2021 No evidence was found that the state was involved in the assassination of Karwana Galizia, but it found that the government invented a “climate of impunity” for those who wanted to silence it.

In a statement, the Karwana Galizia family said that the most recent condemnation brought them “a step closer to justice.”

And they said: “However, eight years after the assassination of the brutal Dafni, the institutional failures that enabled her murder are still unimportant and unexpected.”

Karawana Galizia, who was called “WikiLeaks from one woman”, has reported the allegations of money laundering and bribery and Corruption in Malta For 30 years. She followed the politicians unabated in her homeland on her blog, and she runs comments.

“I knew that the strong people who were writing about them were closing it,” said Ibn Galisia Paul after 60 minutes of her death. “They used all possible means to close them. I knew it, and this scares it deeply.”

The Degiorgio Brothers is 40 years in prison for murder, while Muscat has received a 15 -year decrease.

Yorgen Fenech, who had close relations with the government of Joseph Muscat, is still awaiting trial on charges of being the mastermind of killing.

He was arrested in November 2019 on his yacht while trying to sail Malta. He was granted a guarantee in January 2025, with no date so far for his trial.