Watch: Delia files legal challenge to strike down hospitals contracts
Updated at 4.15pm with government reaction
Updated 3.45pm with Labour reaction
Nationalist Party leader Adrian Delia filed a court application on Monday calling for the hospitals contracts signed between the government and Vitals Global Healthcare to be rescinded.
The scandalous agreement had been designed to fail, Dr Delia claimed, as he questioned the identity of the true beneficiaries of?VGH.
In the application, filed against Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, the Attorney General, Malta Industrial Parks and VGH, Dr Delia calls for the?Karin?Grech, St Luke's and?Gozo?hospitals to be given back to the public.
Dr Delia argued that VGH had breached various contractual obligations, including the building of a new medical campus and renovation of the hospitals.
Speaking outside the law courts, Dr Delia said the PN had not even received a reply to a judicial protest about VGH it had filed two weeks ago.
The concession was given to VGH in 2016, after then health minister Konrad Mizzi signed off on the contracts at a time when his financial advisers were looking for a bank account for his now-dissolved Panama company.
VGH received more than "50 million during the 18-month period it ran...
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