PN invites public to join class action suit against ARMS
Updated 4.50pm, adds PL statement The Nationalist Party has called for individuals who have been overcharged for water and electricity to join a class action lawsuit against utility billing company ARMS. The PN has set up a website where people can sign up to become part of the claim or, alternatively, they can visit the political party's Pieta headquarters Dar Centrali. Details were announced by MPs Mark Anthony Sammut and Ryan Callus during a news conference, in which they also said the party would pay costs associated with bringing the case. It came a day after PN leader Bernard Grech said the party would initiate a legal challenge over overbilling in water and electricity rates. A draft report by the Auditor General found overbilling by ARMS, the company that bills customers for water and electricity, was costing consumers €6.5 million in “extra charges”. “Even our own former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat knew about these extra charges, and yet years have passed, and people are still suffering from this injustice,” Sammut said. “If people want to get their money back, the only way they can do so is by going to court.” Sammut referred to a court judgment in July, where ARMS...