Our View: Committee probe into Mafia State a bad idea

The government decision to appoint independent criminal investigators, to look into the possible offences listed in the report by the anti-corruption authority about the allegations made in Mafia State, does not seem to be going very smoothly. No lawyer who was approached by President Nikos Christodoulides for the job gave a positive answer to the president yet, it has been reported, all of them citing conflict of interest as an excuse.

Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis has said...