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A married couple, whose conviction for human trafficking was quashed on appeal, was jailed for nine years when their case was sent back before the magistrates’ court.
Robert Attila Majlat, 42 and Attilane Majlat, 37, had landed under police surveillance following information from British authorities about the Hungarian couple’s suspect involvement in a prostitution ring.
After tracking down the couple’s Maltese address, investigators turned up at the St Paul’s Bay apartment shared by the Majlats, their minor daughter and two other women, one of whom was a mother of a baby daughter.
While that apartment served as a residence, another apartment nearby appeared to be used for prostitution purposes.
A man facing criminal charges over his alleged involvement in a massive €333,000 jewellery heist has been released from custody after a court ruled that the maximum time he could spend in preventive arrest had expired.
Judge Edwina Grima ruled that the accused, Albanian national Begtash Muka, 29, has been in prison for 22 months pending the criminal proceedings over the daring armed robbery at Tignè shopping mall outlet Diamonds International on October 5, 2017.
Muka stands charged with the violent robbery he had allegedly committed with his brother, Daniel Muka, who is also in prison pending separate proceedings in connection with the double murder of Chris Pandolfino and Ivor Maciejowski at their Sliema home in Locker Street on Tuesday 18 August.