Police are searching for the mobile phone used by "Sandy" during the period in which she allegedly exchanged messages with the judge and collected data from his device. The phone in question is a Samsung device that is no longer in her possession, having been given to another person for safekeeping, she told investigators.
The woman identified as Sandy was summoned and appeared at police headquarters to give a statement on April 2. In a written statement to investigators, she acknowledged that both the messages presented in journalist and researcher Makarios Drousiotis' post and the alleged relationship with judge Michalis Christodoulou do not reflect reality, stressing that everything is fabricated.
She stated that she used the "Call Assistant" application and created the specific messages on her mobile phone, adding that she was sending the fabricated conversations to lawyer Nikos Clerides. In her statement, Sandy admitted that she had been lying to Nikos Clerides about the actual content of the messages and conversations.
Second statement
In the course of the police investigation, Sandy handed over a mobile phone to investigators. She was summoned and appeared at police headquarters for a second statement on April 6. In that statement, she acknowledged using a specific operating system, which was identified on the mobile phone she had handed over to police.
Forensic examination of the device revealed that the operating system had been installed on a specific date and time. This is one of the pieces of evidence currently held by police and is linked to a specific email address bearing the name Sandy and the number 49. The forensic examination also identified three applications that had been deleted from the phone at an unknown time. The first, named "Call Assistant," was installed on the phone in 2025. According to its Google Play description, the application has the ability to simulate fake incoming and outgoing calls. The second application, named "Call Assistant – Fake Call," was installed on March 13, 2026, and offers the ability to simulate fake incoming and outgoing calls and missed calls, with the option to select a name and phone number.
The other phone
However, on April 7, Sandy contacted a member of the investigating team and informed them that she had remembered the mobile phone she handed over to the authorities is not the one she used to create the fake messages. She claimed to have handed the phone in question to a member of staff at Nikos Clerides' law office in 2019 or 2020.
The dispute
Sources close to Nikos Clerides state that his law office never received a mobile phone from Sandy. This claim has caused concern and suspicion among those who filed the original complaints, who criticise the police decision to send the wrong phone to Europol. They have raised the question of why police did not issue a search warrant against the individuals named in Drousiotis' post, but instead decided to issue a search warrant against lawyer Nikos Clerides.
According to Politis' information, the sworn affidavit submitted by a police officer to obtain the search warrant, issued by a district judge for the home and law office of Nikos Clerides, makes extensive reference to the investigators' findings and the two statements given by Sandy.