MP: I did nothing obscene in my car

17:48 MAIN opposition DISY MP Andreas Pitsillides today vehemently denied rumours he had been caught by police in his car engaging in sexual acts with a foreign man in a Nicosia suburb over the weekend.

In a lengthy news release, Pitsillides described the rumours as “slanderous, cowardly, and completely false.”

“Never, in my 34 years, I have committed anything obscene inside my car and certainly, never in my life have I even played host to a foreign individual in my car,” Pitsillides, who is also a theologian, said.

Rumours suggested the MP was found by a police patrol near the US government news monitoring station in Makedonitissa in the early morning hours of Sunday with an Asian man.

The DISY MP said only sick and deranged minds could think that driving around with a friend “automatically means something obscene and immoral.”

“Where will our society be led to when we slander any fellow citizen and fellow human with such ease?” Pitsillides said.

He said he was even called a US Spy and a Jehovah’s Witness.

Pitsillides suggested the rumours were started by people who disagree with him or dislike him for “personal, ideological or other reasons.”

But this does not allow them “to turn into unashamed mud-slingers.”

He urged everyone to be “honest and frank, serious and responsible” and not reproduce gossip that “has nothing to do with reality.”

“And those of us who represent institutions have greater responsibility,” Pitsillides said, pointing the finger at an unnamed female MP, a politician called Rikkos, certain police officers and some journalists,  all of whom he described as pathetic exceptions who gave their colleagues a bad name.