The real issue here is the claim that an investigation by the Cyprus police would lead to a cover-up

One of the oft-repeated concerns voiced in relation to the ‘Sandy’ allegations is that the police could not be trusted to carry out an impartial and competent investigation. It was mainly the people who made these allegations that did not trust the police to properly investigate them and were calling for the appointment of a so-called “independent investigator,” preferably from abroad.

This was the reason the government asked the United States government to send a unit from the FBI, in order to help with the probe. But the FBI agents’ investigation would focus on the information given to them by the police, as would a probe under a so-called “independent investigator.” The real issue here is the claim, by those making the allegations, that an investigation by the Cyprus police would lead to a cover-up.

It is the journalist who made public the allegations that was also claiming that the police “were working feverishly to prove that what I pointed out in my initial post is a product of my imagination.” This is a disingenuous line because it is based on the assumption that the allegations made are factually correct. Had there been a rape of a minor, had the allegedly corrupt judge fathered three children out of wedlock? These are very serious allegations, none of which are backed by any concrete evidence. They are all based on hearsay, text messages that were on the phone belonging to Sandy, who told the police that she had made them up.

This admission could have justified the police ending the investigation, but they did not do so. They could, justifiably, have commenced an investigation into the case of fabricating and spreading fake news. Sandy may have put the fake news together, but these were spread by journalist Makarios Drousiotis – both should have been called in for questioning and charged if the police could have built a case against them.

Their allegations caused a great deal of harm to the standing of Cyprus which was presented as a totally corrupt state which was run by dishonest judges, bent police officers and deceitful prosecutors. No real evidence was provided to back these claims, and because the police, quite rightly questioned their validity, they were accused of engaging in a cover-up. The reality is that there does not seem to be anything to cover up, as the allegations were without substance. Even photographs and part of the sound recordings used as evidence to back the allegations, were copy-pasted from the internet.

Whichever way we look at it, it is a blatant attempt to mislead the public that must be investigated and charges brought.