Former PN minister Tonio Fenech has lost the libel suit he had filed against Energy Minister Konrad Mizzi over a 2014 radio interview in which Mizzi blamed him for rampant electricity theft, the court stating that the allegations were “criticism and comments based on facts which are substantially true.”

In an interview on ONE radio in February 2014, Konrad Mizzi had said that Fenech had been aware that new utility meters were easy to tamper with and had done nothing.

Magistrate Francesco Depasquale dismissed the suit, ordering the plaintiff to suffer the costs of the case.