Our View: Selective targeting of crowdfunding does not look good

A big public debate was sparked by the decision of Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou to ask the police to investigate the crowdfunding appeal announced on Monday by journalist Makarios Drousiotis. In fact, Ioannou declared on Tuesday that it violated the law on fundraising as “there is a clear procedure by which a person that wants to carry out fundraising has to submit an application to the fundraising committee, to be evaluated and for a decision of approval or rejection to be issued...