Former president Anastasiades faces corruption findinds, felony in Mafia State probe

Cyprus’s Independent Authority Against Corruption has found reasonable suspicion that former president Nicos Anastasiades committed seven potential corruption-related offences, including one felony count of abuse of power, in the findings of its two-year investigation into journalist Makarios Drousiotis’s book Mafia State.

The Authority published its findings on Tuesday, nearly four years after Drousiotis’s book first levelled allegations of systemic corruption against Anastasiades and senior...