A small step but it’s a start!

Sentencing Christodolous Christodoulou, the ex-governor of the Central Bank of Cyprus, and ex minister of the interior and of commerce for fiddling the books and tax-evasion to only to five months in prison is a joke… but at least is a tiny step in the right direction.

But he needs to spend a few years in prison for his white-collar crimes so that Cyprus can start to behave like a country based on the rule of law and not the rule of man.

While at it, go after and investigate all those other big piranhas.

There are many such devious crooks right across all sectors of society, the government, politicians, political parties and society at large. Does the prosecutor have the balls or dare to do the right thing on behalf of the nation? We shall wait and see!

Only then citizens will start respecting the law of the land; for justice must not only be done but must be seen to be done so that others will not dare continue robbing the nation and expect citizens to pay for their thievery just like Mr Anstasiades, the president of Cyprus and his government did by robbing our bank accounts without even asking us.

When a government breaks the law under elected dictatorship, then the nation is in deep trouble.

All banks and bank managers in Cyprus have played a major role on the ruin of this nation and certainly their fingers are deep in the muck and dirty… yet the prosecutors and government have both been passive and have not done what the law or even decency demands – investigate and prosecute those mega-crooks and put the guilty away and behind bars like they do with ordinary citizens who break the law for such crimes as traffic tickets.

Andreas C Chrysafis, Paphos

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