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EQUALITY FROM THE HEART WWW.MALTATODAY.COM.MT SUNDAY • 17 SEPTEMBER 2023 • ISSUE 1246 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY → direct Sign up today! My card, digital, global & free. 2557 4400 medirect.com.mt MeDirect Bank (Malta) plc, company registration number C34125, is licensed by the Malta Financial Services Authority under the Banking Act (Cap. 371). Bernard Grech reveals his choices for president amid PN MPs' outcry on lack of consultation PAGE 5 EU countries to ban disposable vapes but Malta has no data on local usage trends PAGES 10 - 11 Fait accompli To ban or not? Catastrophes PAGES 6 - 7 CPD director PETER PAUL COLEIRO says Malta is well prepared for any cataclysm INTERVIEW MT2 Y-PLATE CARS PARKING ABUSE 'It's a real jungle' as reports go unactioned MATTHEW FARRUGIA TRANSPORT Malta (TM) has failed to act despite knowing that Y-plate vehicles have taken up public parking spaces in certain areas, MaltaToday has learned. Emails seen by this newspaper confirm that Transport Malta has known about Y-plate vehicles be- ing parked illegally, yet no action was taken to prevent these illegal- ities. Police question serial fraudster as benefit fraud investigation widens Benefit fraud cases concentrated in Tarxien, Żejtun and Birżebbuġa KURT SANSONE POLICE are widening their probe into the benefits fraud racket that has flagged 160 cas- es of abuse and implicated for- mer Labour MP Silvio Grixti, MaltaToday has learnt. Sources close to the investiga- tion said that apart from Grixti, police have questioned another person of interest from Żejtun with a long history of forgery and fraud. "This individual may have been involved in the actual forgery of medical documents and would have most certainly done it for money," the sources said. It is unclear at this stage what working relationship Grix- ti and this individual had be- tween them. However, some of the abuse cases happened in 2022 after Grixti's alleged involvement became public knowledge, leading investigators to be- lieve others continued with the racket independently from the doctor. CONTINUED ON PAGES 2 - 3 SEE ALSO PN SAT ON STORY TO COVER ITS MPS PAGE 3 A passenger van with Y-plates parked illegally overnight in Pieta' €1.95 Pride march colours the streets of Valletta and Floriana PAGES 14 - 15 PHOTO: JAMES BIANCHI / MEDIATODAY