Updated | Police are not investigating the hospitals deal - Bernard Grech

There is no police investigation into the 2015 privatisation of three Maltese hospitals, Opposition leader Bernard Grech said after filing a police report on the deal. 

Grech and Nationalist MP Adrian Delia met with the police commissioner Angelo Gafà on Tuesday to submit another formal request to investigate the privatisation deal after Monday's damning confirmation of the annulment of government’s privatisation deal.

Following the meeting, Grech addressed the media stating that Gafà had confirmed that no police investigation on the hospitals’ deal is underway.

Gafà said that police are still waiting for the conclusion of the ongoing magisterial inquiry before investigating, Grech told the press. The PN leader stated that there is no obligation to wait for such a conclusion before police start investigating the case.

“We will keep applying pressure so that justice is served,” Grech concluded, reminding the public of next Sunday’s national protest that was announced following Monday’s confirmation.

Grech and Delia held a press conference in front of the police headquarters earlier on Tuesday to pressure Gafà into investigating the hospitals deal. Speaking to the media before entering the building, Grech stated that there was no valid reason whatsoever behind the delay in police investigations.

Grech said that police did not have to wait for the sentence to be confirmed, saying that police could have conducted its own investigation.

Meanwhile, Delia said Gafà's failure to investigate the deal would make him complicit in the fraud behind the scandal.

About an hour after entering police headquarters, Grech, Delia, and PN MP Karol Aquilina lambasted Gafà for not being in the office a day after the damning confirmation.

Indeed, the politicians were initially kept waiting, as Gafà was out of office . However, the commissioner was seen entering the headquarters at noon. The Nationalist MPs went back into the building to file their police report.