Marvic Camilleri has dropped charges against his former boyfriend, Sliema deputy mayor Cyrus Engerer who was charged with circulating naked pictures of him to his employers and friends.

Mr Camilleri this week filed a note in the records of the case in which he renounced criminal action against Mr Engerer, timeofmalta.com has learnt. This was confirmed by Mr Engerer's lawyer Franco Debono.

When contacted, Mr Camilleri said he had no comment to make.

The police may still have to proceed against Mr Engerer given the nature of some of the charges.

The case goes back to January 2010 when Mr Camilleri had filed a police report after nude images of him were stolen from his computer and circulated via e-mail to his employers and friends. He suspected this was the vindictive work of Mr Engerer.

The police only filed charges in court in July and the case came to light when The Times published the charges against Mr Engerer before he was officially notified about them. The charges were filed following a police investigation involving the Cyber Crime Unit.

The charges were filed just 10 days after Mr Engerer defected from the PN to join Labour, following Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi's decision to vote against the divorce Bill in Parliament raising suspicion that police action may have been politically motivated.

Government vociferously denied the claims and launched an inquiry.

In July, Mr Camilleri had told The Times that he was willing to forgive Mr Engerer but still wanted justice to run its course.

The two are said to have remained friends.

The case against Mr Engerer has been appointed for hearing in October however, his lawyer confirmed that he has not yet been notified.

The independent inquiry also has to establish how the police charges had ended up in the public domain before Mr Engerer was even notified.

timesofmalta.com is informed that the court director general filed an application asking the court for authorisation to exhibit the police summons in the inquiry given that it had not yet been read out in court.

While the police commissioner had said that once the summons is filed in court it becomes a public document, Mr Engerer's lawyer is insisting that the summons is not a public document until it is read out in open court.