Former President Nicos Anastasiades said the Anti-Corruption Authority’s report disproves Makarios Drousiotis’s allegations of unlawful enrichment and corruption, categorically denied the offences attributed to him, and called for the competent authorities to investigate immediately, also requesting that the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General be excluded from overseeing the investigations.
In a statement issued after studying the report, Anastasiades said the allegations of unlawful enrichment, corruption and “a host of other defamatory claims” by Drousiotis “collapsed as unfounded.”
He said most of the charges attributed to him by the investigating officers and the Anti-Corruption Authority were not only absent from the allegations recorded in Drousiotis’s book, but were never put to him during the investigative process, denying him the opportunity to provide documented responses.
Anastasiades said he would respond with evidence to both Drousiotis’s allegations and what he described as the unsubstantiated nature of the charges at a press conference in the coming days.
He said he “categorically” denies the offences attributed to him and is requesting an immediate investigation by the competent authorities.
Anastasiades added that, to remove any suspicion, whether well-intentioned or malicious, he is requesting the recusal of the Attorney General and the Deputy Attorney General from overseeing the investigations, so that the lack of basis for the allegations against him can be demonstrated with evidence.
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