Exclusive: Silvio Grixti Refuses To Speak To Medical Council Over Social Benefit Fraud Scheme
Family doctor and former PL MP Silvio Grixti is refusing to give testimony to the Medical Council about his involvement in an alleged social benefit racket.
Lovin Malta is informed that Grixti responded to a letter by the Medical Council by referring to a judgement passed by the Constitutional Court in June 2022 in relation to a case by another politician-doctor, PN MP Stephen Spiteri.
PN MP Stephen Spiteri
Back then, the court ruled that the human rights of Spiteri – who was accused of issuing medical certifications to patients he hadn’t actually seen following a Lovin Malta report in 2017 – were breached due to the Medical Council’s multi-role as investigator, prosecutor and punisher, with powers to suspend doctors’ warrants.
Although this judgment was passed over a year ago, the government has yet to update the law regulating the Medical Council.
Consequently, Grixti, who is being represented by top lawyers Franco Debono and Arthur Azzopardi, has now informed the Medical Council that he won’t speak to them because its current operations have been found to breach the human rights of medical professionals.
This will pile pressure on the government to update the law to avoid the Medical Council getting turned into a redundant and toothless entity.
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