John Dalli has finished his work with the government, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said during a visit to the University campus today.
Mr Dalli was appointed by the government as a consultant on health related matters last year.
"You have been asking me this question for ages, the situation is that Mr Dalli did the work he was engaged to do last year and finished it," Dr Muscat said.
Olaf, the EU's anti-fraud agency, is investigating Mr Dalli in connection with four trips he made to the Bahamas and at least one trip he made to Singapore during his time as a European Commissioner.
This investigation, is a completely new probe and is not connected to the snus scandal that saw him being dismissed - or resigning depending on whose version of events one subscribes to - from the European Commission under a dark cloud back in October 2012, nor to 2013 reports of trips he had made to the Bahamas while he was serving as an EU commissioner.
The former European Commissioner John Dalli on Monday refused to answer questions put by this newspaper about new Olaf probe into a trip he took to Singapore when he still occupied the Brussels post, before he was made to resign over a separate tobacco directive scandal.
When contacted by this newspaper for his reaction about investigations on the fresh allegations, Mr Dalli argued that he was not informed by OLAF about new investigations, and enquired who the sources behind the reports were.
Pressed on whether he denies making a trip to Singapore, Mr Dalli refused to answer, and instead questioned again whether local media houses are orchestrating things. "OLAF has been playing this game for a while now, and news agencies are merely choosing to believe them." Asked to give his side of the story, Mr Dalli again refused to answer questions.
Instead, he accused independent media of having co-ordinated Sunday's reports against him. "I do not believe in coincidences," he said, "Two independent media have chosen to make such reports on the same day, for reasons I am not aware of."