Investigative journalist Makarios Drousiotis has rejected the police findings on the Sandy affair, accusing former President Nikos Anastasiades of still controlling the system and dismissing the investigation’s conclusions as predetermined.
In his first reaction after the police announcement, Drousiotis published a social media post in which he said the police statement had been aligned with leaks to the press from the first day the investigation began, and that its conclusions were identical to what Anastasiades had pre-announced.
Writing sarcastically, he said neither Europol nor the FBI had helped — yet the messages were all “forged” and the information false.
He questioned how a woman without specialist knowledge could have constructed hundreds of SMS, Viber and Signal messages — complete with names, phone numbers and detailed events she could not have known — using an app.
He described the Police Chief’s live television appearance as presenting this as the truth, adding ironically: “and they all lived happily ever after.”
Drousiotis also said Arnaoutis had seen no connection between the Sandy affair and the Focus case and the Mafia State allegations, had not even known that the Mafia State report had already been submitted, and had only learned the previous day that its conclusions would be announced within a week.
He claimed the police had rushed to complete the Sandy investigation without waiting for the Mafia State report, so as not to disrupt the narrative.
“When the conclusions of the Mafia State report are announced, I hope he will see the light. We will talk then,” he wrote.
Drousiotis added that the Mafia State matter was what was really at stake, writing: “We will talk after the Mafia State announcements — that is what is ‘burning’ them.”