Makarios Drousiotis has criticised President Nikos Christodoulides over the involvement of the FBI in the Sandy case, arguing that the move undermines the credibility of the state and its institutions.
In a post on X, Drousiotis said that whenever the President turns to the FBI instead of taking the decisions required, it humiliates the state itself and raises questions about Cyprus’ institutional capacity. He asked whether there are not “two or three people above suspicion” in Cyprus who could take on such a role.
“We are not a US colony,” he wrote, adding that it is Cyprus’ own responsibility to build a state governed by the rule of law. He also questioned what role the FBI team expected to arrive in Cyprus would actually have, noting that it would have no investigative powers of its own and would remain dependent on the Cypriot authorities.
Drousiotis also referred to previous instances of FBI involvement in Cyprus, saying they left without any clear outcome being made public. He asked what exactly the public had been told, and what had been learned that was not already known.
He argued that there is only one credible way forward: the appointment of independent criminal investigators from Cyprus who are above suspicion. Anything else, he said, amounts to an attempt at a cover-up.