President owes TC money

A 77-YEAR-OLD Turkish Cypriot man claimed President Tassos Papadopoulos owed him money since 1974, Politis reported yesterday.

Mehmet Boshnak told the daily that he knew Papadopoulos since he was a child as they both hailed from the occupied village of Assia.

Boshnak said Papadopoulos had been a mischievous child, who was always up to something on the streets of the village.

The Turkish Cypriot said Papadopoulos had represented him during a trial and that he owed him some money he had won as compensation.

The money stayed with Papadopoulos after the Turkish invasion in 1974.

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