Malta Security Services News Today

Malta is supporting a clause in the first European law aimed at protecting media freedom that would legitimise spying on journalists

Former bank VP accuses police, MSS, of illegal surveillance after transcripts of meetings emerge in Catania court proceedings

Judge denies Charles ‘Pips’ Muscat rights breach claim but says government should update Security Service law that grants minister power to issue phone-tapping warrant

Brothers jailed for assassination of journalist intend naming politicians and high-ranking MSS officers implicated in the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia 

Malta Security Services says drug supply was down in 2021 and 2020

Constitutional Court confirms document presented in evidence

Police Superintendent Keith Arnaud has been ordered to show Yorgen Fenech's lawyer's a list of all individuals which the police had requested phone data for, in the first days of the investigation

Updated 5.12pm Former FIAU official Jonathan Ferris has won €3,000 in libel damages against Malta Today managing editor Saviour Balzan over a video blog p

Commissioner Angelo Gafa’ insists police could not exhibit phone intercepts used during the interrogation of Edwin Brincat il-Ġojja as they had already been handed back to the Malta Security Services

Criminal investigations will have to be conducted differently from now on, and the black-on-white admission that Malta Security Services can intercept communications without a legal basis raises serious questions also for journalists