Police say second statement needed from Hadjigeorgiou

IN THE wake of the bombshell comments made by head of the licensing department at the Civil Aviation, Charalambos Hadjigeorgiou, police have decided he would now have to make a second statement.

Attorney-general Petros Clerides yesterday said Hadjigeorgiou would have to resubmit his statement to the police in light of his public comments about the Civil Aviation’s failure to properly carry out in-flight checks on the island, something which was categorically denied by Communications Minister Haris Thrasou yesterday.

Speaking to state radio, Clerides said, “Mr Hadjigeorgiou will have to make his statement again to the police because it appears that he may know more than what he had initially stated.”

DIKO deputy Nicos Pittokopitis said he was baffled as to why Hadjigeorgiou did not speak up before.

“My question is why he didn’t speak up until after the tragic event of August 14. If he had known about any problems like these, I am sure others would have been here to listen to his worries.

Even I have met with him lots of times in the past and he never said anything to me.”

Justice Minister Doros Theodorou stated that the “door of the police is still open” when asked by reporters about the second statement that Hadjigeorgiou would have to make.

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