Former Labour Party MP Silvio Grixti, who currently finds himself at the centre of allegations concerning a disability benefits racket, has implied that the Police Force is being selective in who and what they investigate.

In what is his first public statement since being connected to a disability fraud racket, Grixti came out guns blazing, questioning Health Minister Chris Fearne – his former PL colleague – as to why allegations that medical certificates had been abused of were not investigated by police “as if everything had been forgiven.”

“These certificates are set out so that a person can receive a social benefit.  How come in the recent past when there were stories in the media about abuse of these certificates the police never investigated them as if everything had been forgiven,” Grixti wrote.

“What do you think, Chris Fearne???” he added.

Grixti attached a picture of a blank doctor’s certificate to his post, with the certificate’s heading being highlighted in a red box.

The heading reads:  “Medical certificate – An original for the Department of Social Security – Request for Sickness Benefit.”

Grixti, who resigned as an MP when the police began to investigate him in late 2021, gave no further context on his remarks, leaving readers to deduce exactly to whom he was referring.

The only stories in the media relating to possible abuse when it comes to medical certificates in recent years relates to the PN’s health spokesperson Stephen Spiteri, who is also – like Grixti – a medical doctor.

Spiteri was investigated by the Medical Council after reports that he was issuing medical certificates to patients without actually examining them – proceedings which were later nullified by a court after it judged that the council had breached Spiteri’s right to a fair hearing.

The council did not appeal the ruling, and Spiteri remains a PN MP and a doctor today.

Grixti meanwhile was forced to resign by the Prime Minister Robert Abela after the police started to investigate him on suspicion of being the key figure behind a fraud racket concerning the government’s disability benefits.

Those who received these benefits have told police that Grixti and others gave them documents with forged signatures which were then presented – and ultimately accepted – by the medical board which governs these benefits.

Grixti has not been charged in connection with the case, although police questioned him last week.