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| Courtesy LGC |
Scandals continue in Cyprus, South and North. As in much of the rest of the world of course.
As the Cyprus Mail says “Sex, money laundering and bogus miracles, the scandal at a small monastery has it all”. Shades of supermarket tabloids as the report continues: “Nobody could have guessed that the story would have taken such dimensions when it broke late on Wednesday March 6, with reports that the head of the monastery Nektarios and fellow monk, archimandrite Porfyrios, were caught on camera having sex with each other, while a raid of the monastery, during which Bishop Isaias was present, found €800,000 in cash in the safe – revenue from staged miracles it was claimed. It was also reported that sex toys and sexual stimulants were found in their chambers.” Unsurprisingly, these details and others equally unedifying, are being disputed 🙄.
Meanwhile in the North there has been a continuing scandal involving corruption in some post-secondary institutions, including fraud, embezzlement, fake student registrations and fake diplomas. Arrests have included university officials and senior civil servants. And today LGC reports that the Famagusta Chief of Police has been arrested for providing false university documents in pursuit of a pay rise. Unimpressive at best, although it’s hard not to reflect that in most western countries, where inaccurate CVs and forged transcripts are not unknown, seeing the alleged perpetrator led away in handcuffs is almost unimaginable.