Our View: Authority’s silence undermines transparency

The Anti-Corruption Authority resorted to the oldest trick in the book in its announcement, responding to the previous week’s media reports about a possible conflict of interest in the team of inspection officers investigating the allegations made in the book Mafia State. It avoided the issue, which was the claim that the head of the investigation, Australian lawyer Gabrielle McIntyre had previously worked with Leto Cariolou, the lawyer representing, the author of the book Makarios...