The Maksar brothers, Jamie Vella, and George Degiorgio will appear before the courts for their compilation of evidence involving the murders of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia and Carmel Chircop.

Adrian Agius, George Degiorgio, who has already been charged with the Caruana Galizia assassination, and Jamie Vella were charged with carrying out the murder of Carmel Chircop on 8th October 2015. Agius has been charged with heroin possession and trafficking.

His brother, Robert, and Vella have been charged over their complicity in the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia, in particular how they supplied the explosive which killed her

Caruana Galizia was murdered by a car bomb outside her home on 16th October 2017. Degiorgio, his brother Alfred, and Vince Muscat were arrested and charged with the murder on 5th December. Yorgen Fenech was charged in connection to the murder in November 2019.

Chircop was killed after he was shot four times while walking to a garage complex in John Borg Street, Birkirkara in October 2015.