Following the Court’s decision today to render Labour government’s 2014 deal with Vitals and Steward Healthcare null and fraudulent, Moviment Graffitti calls for the immediate, full and clear criminal prosecution of top cabinet members involved in masterminding this deal. We call for immediate criminal prosecution of then Prime Minister Joseph Muscat as head of cabinet who ratified the concession, then Health Minister Konrad Mizzi who masterminded the deal, then Economy Minister Chris Cardona who signed the Memorandum of Understanding and then Chief of Staff Keith Schembri who was involved in the secret negotiations.

Justice Depasquale today made clear that any attempt at shifting responsibility from individuals directly responsible for the fraudulent Vitals and Steward Healthcare concession to the whole cabinet would constitute a dangerous, manipulative and deceitful act. In light of this, Moviment Graffitti insists on the immediate, full and clear criminal prosecution of Joseph Muscat, Konrad Mizzi, Chris Cardona and Keith Schembri as representatives of the government of Malta in 2014.

Moviment Graffitti calls on the current Labour government to put an immediate halt to any further leakage of taxpayers’ money into the Vitals and Steward Healthcare fraudulent deal. All taxpayers of Malta and Gozo have to date been made to pay millions for a privatisation deal that gave them nothing but damage back and that constitutes an unprecedented act of public theft of major hospitals on the islands for the benefit of the corrupt few. We call on Prime Minister Robert Abela to ensure that the exit penalty that binds government to pay further millions to Vitals and then Steward Healthcare from taxpayers’ pockets is rendered null. We also call on Prime Minister Robert Abela to ensure that taxpayers of Malta and Gozo recuperate the millions that they were robbed of and that were thrown away in this fraudulent concession. This must be done through the payment of damages by all political and private individuals involved.

The Court’s decision today proved that the Vitals and Steward Healthcare concession was nothing but a national privatisation scheme turned cash cow by the Labour government for the benefit of an inner circle of powerful members and of powerful private companies in cahoots with the political class. In light of this, we call for the immediate return to the public and the immediate rehabilitation of Gozo General Hospital, St Luke’s Hospital and Karin Grech Hospital.

Wara d-deċiżjoni tal-Qorti llum li trendi null u frodolenti l-ftehim tal-gvern Laburista tal-2014 ma’ Vitals u Steward Healthcare, il-Moviment Graffitti jappella għall-prosekuzzjoni kriminali immedjata, sħiħa u ċara tal-ogħla membri tal-kabinett involuti fil-ġestjoni ta’ dan il-ftehim. Il-Moviment Graffitti jappella għall-prosekuzzjoni kriminali immedjata tal-eks Prim Ministru Joseph Muscat bħala l-kap tal-kabinett li rratifika l-konċessjoni, l-eks Ministru tas-Saħħa Konrad Mizzi li fassal l-intriċċi tal-pjan li wasslu għal dan il-ftehim, l-eks Ministru tal-Ekonomija Chris Cardona li ffirma l-Memorandum ta’ Ftehim u l-eks Chief of Staff Keith Schembri li kien involut fin-negozjati sigrieti.

L-Imħallef Depasquale llum għamilha ċara li kwalunkwe attentati sabiex ir-responsabbiltà li jġorru l-individwi li huma direttament responsabbli mill-ftehim frodi tal-gvern mal-Vitals u Steward Healthcare tintrema’ fuq il-kabinett kollu, ikunu attentati perikolużi, manipulattivi u qarrieqa. Fid-dawl ta’ dan, il-Moviment Graffitti jinsisti fuq il-prosekuzzjoni kriminali ta’ Joseph Muscat, Konrad Mizzi, Chris Cardona u Keith Schembri bħala rappreżentanti tal-gvern ta’ Malta.

Nappellaw lill-gvern Laburista sabiex itemm minnufih il-ħela ta’ miljuni ta’ flus mit-taxxi tal-poplu fuq il-ftehim tal-gvern mal-Vitals u Steward Healthcare. Il-poplu Malti u Għawdxi għadu sal-lum jaħraq il-miljuni fuq ftehim ta’ privatizzazzjoni li ma rendielu assolutament xejn lura u li jikkostitwixxi att bla preċedent ta’ serq pubbliku ta’ sptarijiet ewlenin fil-gżejjer għall-gwadann ta’ politiċi korrotti u ta’ kumpaniji privati b’poter assolut. Nitolbu lill-Prim Ministru Robert Abela sabiex jiżgura li tiġi annullata wkoll il-klawsola li torbot lill-gvern iħallas aktar miljuni lil Vitals u Steward Healthcare talli ħareġ mill-ftehim. Nappellaw lill-Prim Ministru Robert Abela biex jiżgura wkoll li l-poplu ta’ Malta u Għawdex jirkupra l-miljuni li nsterqulu u li ntremew f’dan il-ftehim frodolenti. Dan irid isir permezz tal-ħlas tad-danni mill-individwi politiċi u privati involuti kollha.

Id-deċiżjoni tal-Qorti llum uriet li l-ftehim tal-gvern mal-Vitals u Steward Healthcare ma kien xejn ħlief skema ta’ privatizzazzjoni mill-gvern Laburista għall-gwadann tal-politiċi b’poter kbir u l-gwadann tal-kumpaniji privati b’saħħithom. Fid-dawl ta’ dan, nisħqu li l-Isptar Ġenerali ta’ Għawdex, l-Isptar San Luqa u l-Isptar Karin Grech għandhom jingħataw lura lill-pubbliku immedjatament u li għandha tibda l-ħidma immedjata fuq ir-riabilitazzjoni ta’ dawn l-istparijiet ċentrali tal-poplu.