The former Labour MP and doctor Silvio Grixti will be charged in court later this month over his role in the social benefits racket, according to reports

The Times of Malta reported that the arraignment will take place on March 22 before Magistrate Leonard Caruana, after police filed charges in court following months of investigations.

The four other people are 45 year-old Roger Agius from Luqa, 69-year-old Emmanuel Spagnol from Zejtun, 36-year-old Dustin Caruana and 33-year-old Luke Saliba.

Prosecutors believe Agius, who was Grixti's driver, played a major role in the racket. Reports said that Spagnol is suspected of serving as a fixer in the racket, and Caruana was a runner. Saliba is suspected of having used his IT skills to perpetuate the fraud.

It was revealed last September that Grixti was implicated in a years-long racket which helped "hundreds" of people fraudulently receiving disability benefits they were not entitled to and did not suffer from, through false medical documents.

Many of those who received the benefits were interrogated by police and charged in court, after the police's Financial Crime Investigations Department (FCID) began investigating the racket in October 2021 upon suspicion that individuals were presenting forged medical certificates to receive social benefits.

Involved individuals claimed that they were referred to Grixti by a PL Minister, Labour canvassers, and customer care officials coming from the Prime Minister's office.

Grixti resigned from parliament and the parliamentary group in December 2021 after being questioned by police, and was questioned again last November.