A magistrate has criticised Enemalta for abusing its dominant position to force clients to renounce their legal rights and issued an injunction preventing the corporation from suspending the power supply at a man’s home.

Magistrate Paul Coppini, presiding over the Gozo Court, upheld Teddy Cefai’s application for an injunction after hearing how he was threatened with being cut off unless he paid €9,300.

Mr Cefai filed an application on June 23, soon after he was called for a meeting at Enemalta’s Gozo offices before nine officials, including the corporation’s chairman, accusing him of electricity theft.

He said he was told they had a strong suspicion that his electricity meter was under-registering consumption and calculated that he owed Enemalta €9,300.

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