The picture of corruption is pitch black and not easily glossed over

Perhaps all Nikos Anastasiades really wanted to say yesterday was that “the Independent Authority Against Corruption did not accept and dismissed as unfounded and unsubstantiated the claims presented in most chapters and subchapters of the book Mafia State.”

He went through them almost point by point, trying to prove that Drousiotis had been refuted, and that what the report attributes to him has nothing to do with the accusations the former collaborator made. He made a point of stressing...