Four libel suits were this morning filed by Antonello Cappitta and EIE Malta Ltd against Saviour Balzan and Evarist Bartolo, editor and author, respectively of an article in Malta Today and Felix Agius, editor of Kullhadd.
The libel suit against Mr Balzan and Mr Bartolo was regarding an article in last Sunday's Malta Today entitled "How academic fraud came to Malta - the EIE case.
The other three libel suits were all filed against Mr Agius for articles on August 23 and 30 and last Sunday.
The August 23 article was entitled Ghand il-Pulizija: Ingannati minn taparisi universita, that on August 30 was Il-European University tal EIE falza u ingannat l-istudenti while that of last Sunday was Il-European University tisparixxi minn fuq il-website tal-EIE.
EIE said it is the institute licensed by the Ministry of Education to offer higher education courses and endeavours to offer repute degrees and qualifications of the highest level.