Tax commission joins expanded Mafia State probe in unprecedent move

President Nikos Christodoulides is facing renewed pressure to demonstrate his independence from former president Nicos Anastasiades after the anti-corruption authority’s findings in the Mafia State case were formally expanded to include scrutiny by the tax commissioner, Sotiris Markides.

The authority’s findings will, for the first time, be transmitted to the tax commissioner under recently approved legislation establishing direct institutional cooperation between the anti-corruption body and...