Kopelliv Vaulov

Ola taxe n mariorn, o feretzes tns eleipe.... Loipov, tov Antoni Intiano I knew him personally and I can honestly say eivai kopelliv va.i.lov... poulliv... Ishev wraia aderfn omos...
Pou ntav mitsis etroev peripeksimo yiati ntav favatikos tenistas, tora prepei va trwi peripeksimo yia ti ksifaskia... ate Avtwvn mou perki fkeis bouleutns yiati esi lipis pou tn bouln yia va klisoume triliza...

Oi blakes...

Apo to documanter tou Makariou Droushioti http://www.makarios.ws/cgibin/hweb?-A=980&-V=perireousa apokaliptoume tiv akros aporritn lista tis Nathan Associates pou eivai posted sto internet... me tous blakes sto Kypriako politiko proskivio. H ba8mologia eivai 1-10, me 10 tov apolito blaka:
1. Avtigovn Papadopoulou ba8mous blakeias: 10
2. Zaxarias Koulias ba8mous blakeias:10
3. Rikkos Erotokritou ba8mous blakeias:10
4. Nikos Pittokopitis ba8mous blakeias:9
5. Prodromos Prodromou ba8mous blakeias:8
6. Yiannakis Omnrou ba8mous blakeias:8


Euxaristoume to dnmosiografo tou ANT pou dieukrnvnse oti eivai eva gaoudouri, evas blakas kai misos. Oi de dnmosiografoi Lambros Papantoniou kai Mixalns Ignatiou exouv prota8ei me Nobel Blakeias...

Epeisns, uparxei kai alln mistiki lista tis shiettavias, me ba8mologia 1-10, me 10 yia tov bash shiettavn:
1. Tassos Papadopoulos ba8mous shiettanias: 10+
2. Dnmntrns Xristofias ba8mous shiettanias: 9
3. Giorgos Lillikas ba8mous shiettanias: 8

Se parakalw 8ee mou steile eva sniper opos ntav o arfotexvos tou Makariou va tous ka8arisei tze va glitosi o topos mas. By the way, va tous peksi shierka podkia prota va povouv priv va pav st'ava88ema...
Autoktovies se plateies, as pittokopitis suggested, is fine too...

Ate kavei...

Loipov, meta to documanter tou Drousiouti http://www.makarios.ws/cgibin/hweb?-A=980&-V=perireousa I strongly believe that the Republic of Cyprus is left in the hands of complete idiots and I give up... Ate kavei yiati exoume tze douleies, ev eshi sotiria, osoi veuriazete me tes malakies pou kamvouv oi ili8ioi politikoi tze dnmosiografoi stnv Kypro, think of this as getting upset at a mentally retarted person who just gave you the finger. Thank the late Yiannos Kranidiotis for helping Cyprus join the EU and you can live and work anywhere in the EU and given the options make your own decisions but forget about being able to do something about it.
Ate kavi, this is the last posting...

Sav tiv Kypro ev eshi, tze lalei o allos me avakoufisn "eutixws...."

To Porvo tou fileleu8erou

O Fileleftheros lalei oti to Reuters mas katigora yia porvo, alla sto posting tou Reuters I don't see any accusation... Ev n Kypreoi pou elao8nkav tze parapoviouvte tze to Reuters aplos grafei to, no mentioning of porno in their article below. Pistefko n' o dnmosiografos ev nli8ios n' kati stake tha eshi o fileleftheros stiv etereia pou diafimizei, ara o mavvo kypreos lalei "8a poume oti mas katigorouv oi angloamerikavoi etsi o kosmos 8a siopisi..." Opos me to sxedio Anan, yia va to upostnrizouv oi Angloamerikavoi ara ev kako yia emas... reverse psychology pou douleukei sta mwra...

Dkiabaste tze ti malakia pou egrapse o Fileleftheros prwta:

http://www.phileleftheros.com/main/main.asp?gid=334&id=402169

And the following is the actual Reuters article:

NICOSIA (Reuters) - Bare buttocks plastered on billboards in Nicosia are the talk of the town in the Cypriot capital, but officials see no need to cover them up.
Complaints have poured in to local councils over the advert for a clothes chain showing a close-up of a woman's bottom, bare except for a tan-colored thong.
One member of parliament, Maria Kyriakou, from the opposition Democratic Rally party, told Reuters it could even be a "potential distraction for drivers."
But local authorities say they have no say on the content of adverts, police say they've seen worse, and the media watchdog says billboards are beyond its standard remit.
"Regardless of that, we have to look at the matter because a complaint was filed. If it was clearly pornographic we could possibly intervene, but sometimes you see even more explicit pictures in family magazines," said Petros Petrides, secretary of the Media Complaints Commission.
That view was echoed by a police spokesman, who said: "It's not considered obscene. Magazines show worse things."
The poster takes its place among a sea of posters advertising candidates for parliamentary elections on May 21.

O poio axrnstos upourgos...

Telika, dev kserw poios ev o poio axrnstos upourgos toutns tns Kybervnsns, pistefko prepei va kamoume psifoforia...
1. Doros: yia tov ksilodarmo fteei n prongoumevn kybervnsn pou tous proslabe... this is the moron that came out after the beating of the journalists and said "H astuvomia dev dervete" tze 3 xrovia upourgos akoma vomizei oti he was just appointed. Ev n istoria pou lalei evas goverment big shot gave to the next guy two envelopes and told him "when you are in trouble open an envelope". Skatovvei ta o tzivourkos tze avviei to prwto fakelo, pou lalei "blame everything on me". Mia xara eka8arise, meta pou llio tzero skatovvei ta palei, avvin tov deutero fakelo pou lalei "sit down and write two letters". Ate Doro, sit down and write two letters...
More malakies by Doros...
In September 2004, he claimed that Chechen terrorists operated in the north, only for his allegations to be rejected on the very next day by then presidential spokesman Marios Karoyian.And back in 2003, speaking on the sexual abuse of foreign women in Cyprus, Theodorou cited a survey conducted in Eastern European countries that supposedly revealed that the dream of 45 per cent of the women was to become prostitutes.
2. 8rasos: To Kykloforiako sti Lefkosia egive tis poutavas, absolutely no short or long term plans. Akoma ev ibre akri me tiv istoria tns Helios. Keep sleeping...
3. Lillikkas: Toutos avti va asxolite me to emporio trwei pou tnv akra tze tziame pou kamvei dialimma pou ti masa pezei koutopovnra politika paixvidkia. H oikovomia mas paei kata dkiaolou tze toutos besh tampoura tortokka...

Twra... twra, tze eimai kalos egw yia loou tous..

Μέσα από τα όσα αναπτύχθηκαν στη Βουλή, δεν χρειάζονται συγκεκριμένα στοιχεία, έγγραφα για να τεκμηριώσουν το πόσο χαριστική και σκανδαλώδης είναι η συμφωνία" μεταξύ ΑΤΗΚ και LTV, δήλωσε ο Πρόεδρος του ΔΗΣΥ Νίκος Αναστασιάδης
E kalo... kourtizei kourtizei va balei tous media moguls, tov Xatznkostn tze tov Louki pou oti tous kaulosei kamvouv mesa sto eulognmevo vnsi, va pav evavtio tou Tassou. Av exoume ekloges metaksi Anastasiadn tze Tassou 8a exoume va dkialeksoume metaksi Arxipoutavas tze tou Kavlavtou...
Enjoy your leaders toppouze Kypree

Technology made in India...

Malista, epiev stnv India va ferei technology and investments... A 8ee mou tze oti tou kavlosi pkiov, va doume poios koumparos tou Lillikka evva faei pale tze ivta deals evva piasei to dikigariko grafeio Tassou Papadopoulou & Co. Exoume to Israel dipla mas tze avti va tous piasoume pou kovta epiav stnv India. Ekavovisav imish tze visa se 24 wres stou Indous investors... twra, twra pou evva ertouv Kypro tze evva pouv tou zaftie sto immigration "I'll be staying at the Hilton" tze va apavtouv "E tze pe allo vav re pelle..." tze va tous pempouv pisw stnv India evva fame kala.

Tze yia va miloume me facts, below it's a letter of a British guy who invited his Pakistani doctor from the UK to come to CY for vacation with his family...

Disturbing prevalence of racism
Sir,I am English, and now I have retired I share my time between my house in Cyprus and my house in the UK.On my recommendation, my doctor in England brought his family to Cyprus last summer for a holiday in Paphos. They enjoyed the island very much, but one aspect of their stay concerned him deeply.On several occasions he was approached by Cypriots and aggressively told to “go back to the north!” One time he was having an evening meal with his family in a restaurant, and his waiter asked, “What do you think you are doing here?”Another time, sitting in a pavement caf?, a worker on a building site across the road came over and told him to “get out of my country!”My doctor is of Pakistani descent. We in England are often concerned about racial discrimination in our country, and rightly so, but this Pakistani doctor has told me he very rarely experiences any antagonism in the UK.If anyone is serious about re-unifying this island of Cyprus, a great deal of work remains to be done, and no one should underestimate the enormity of the task.Mike Wilkinson, Paphos
Copyright © Cyprus Mail 2006

Sweet 60s here I come...

This has been the biggest problem with our goverment, instead of putting effort in making the economy, the infrastructure and the life of the people better, their energy is channeled into exclusively etching deeper divisions both between Greeks and Turkish Cypriots and among GCs as well... Nenekides, OXIdes, klp... Back to the 60s baby...

Apopspasma pou to ar8ro tis Forbes:
" Stories like this make the occupied area an easy target for Cypriot officials. "There are some very, very serious problems regarding illegal action in the occupied areas of Cyprus," says Doros Theodorou, minister of justice, as one cigarette after another burns slowly in the ashtray in front of him. "And I'm not speaking only about money laundering. I'm speaking about every illegal action."

But such politicians are part of the problem because they refuse to deal with leaders of the occupied areas. Rather than cracking down on criminals wherever they live on an island, the government's political energy is channeled almost exclusively into etching deeper divisions--three decades after the invasion. In January the Cypriot president refused to meet with Jack Straw after the British foreign minister had the gall to seek a solution to the division by meeting with the leader of the northern entity in his presidential palace. The Turkish side behaves no better."

To regional dealers meeting tis Dell

Priv kamia 10arka xrovia or so, n Dell Computers ishe regional grafeio sti Kypro tze n regional manager ntav n Lenia Iakobidou. Ekame pou laleite n Dell conference twv dealers tis stiv Middle East and Africa tze among the people who came ntav dkio mauroi pou edouleukav sto dealer tis Dell se mia afrikavikn xwra. Sto immigration control stn Larvaka rota tov o zapties "Haou match mani you haf?" tze eipe o mavris $500, "Houear ar you goin to stay???" tze apavta pale o Mavris Hilton Hotel... "What???? Hirton??? E tze pe allo va re pelle...." lalei o zapties tze eppese xame pou to gelio... va mev ta pollilogo, tous mavrides epepsav tous pisw londino tze telika egive sousouro tze eksavanrtav pisw tze epierosev tous to eisitirio n kybervnsn. H Dell efiev pou tiv Kyprov... wonder why... tora ekamav to foro yia etereies 10% alla ev opos tiv 60 xrovn poutava tns Soutsou pou gamiete yia 3 lires alla kavevas ev paei... etsi mas ekatavtnsav oi bortoi kopelia alla ftev oi kseves duvameis pou mas misouv tze 8elouv to kako mas. H CIA prepei va eshi department me 500 atoma pou skeftouvte ka8e mera pws 8a mas kamouv kako, H de Anglia skeftete va kamei 'harm Cyprus' ypourgeio...

Epirav mas xapari...

Arese mou polla pou efkike o Lillikas, o arxi-masas o arxi-pagapovtns tze lalei oti ev prosblntiko to article tou Forbes... kamvouv tes malakies, trwv sav ta leshia tze meta "it was insulting..." etsi opos paei o Lillikas evva kovtrari tov MSS...
http://www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com/


MSS/Lillikas "THERE ARE NO RUSSIAN INFIDEL HOOKERS OR MONEY LAUNDERING IN CYPRUS...TORNOS WAS NEVER INVOLVED WITH CIGARETTE SMUGGLING..."

In 2003, speaking on the sexual abuse of foreign women in Cyprus, Theodorou cited a survey conducted in Eastern European countries that supposedly revealed that the dream of 45 per cent of the women was to become prostitutes. Pou se re Doro arxiblaka... Telika o MSS eivai kati metaksi Lillika tze Dorou...

forbes, april 9 2006
Money laundering, gun-running, sex slavery. Is tiny Cyprus your company's next tax haven? When Slobodan Milosevic died in his jail cell in March, he left behind an $800 million mystery. Between 1992 and 2000 the Serbian strongman spirited at least that amount, much of it in cash, out of the former Yugoslavia, according to papers filed at the war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands. The money was loaded onto an airplane and flown 1,000 miles to a small airport in Larnaca, Cyprus. Why there? Because, says an alleged co-conspirator and courier, the tiny Mediterranean island was "a passage to the world."
Where did the money go from there? Court papers say Milosevic and co-conspirators set up eight Cypriot front companies, including one registered by the law firm of Tassos Papadopoulos, the nation's current president. (Pambos Ioannides, head of Tassos Papadopoulos & Co., admits the firm opened a holding company called Southmed but strenuously denies it was set up on behalf of Milosevic or his regime.) These outfits allegedly set up some 250 bank accounts in Cyprus and Greece, and funneled money to more than 50 countries, including Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and Switzerland. Much of it was used for purchases from military supply businesses in the U.S., Russia and Israel; at least $3.5 million went to a company called Aviatrend, run by reputed Russian arms dealer Valeri Tchernyi. What happened to the rest is anyone's guess.
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Once part of the Byzantine Empire, Cyprus is a great place to make things disappear. This nation, population 740,000, has long been a way station for rogues and scoundrels, where officials have traditionally been willing to look the other way. Just 150 miles from Beirut, closer to the Middle East than to Europe, Cyprus has been a mecca for cigarette smuggling, money laundering, arms trading--even terror financing, according to a post-Sept. 11 congressional hearing. The site of secret meetings between Israelis and Palestinians, it has also been a refuge for Russians transporting wealth of immense size and dubious provenance.
By the Numbers
Open for Business
Cyprus wants to become the new Caymans of the Mediterranean. Good luck.

38 The number of domestic and international banks in government-controlled Cyprus.

$16.3 billion The total assets held by international banks in government-controlled Cyprus.

476% The total increase in the number of suspicious activity reports filed by banks since 2000.
Source: U.S. Bureau for International Narcotics & Law Enforcement Affairs. So it may come as a shock that Cyprus is now selling itself as the next tax haven for corporate America, a Delaware on the Mediterranean. Here, as in Luxembourg or the Cayman Islands, businesses can cut their tax bills by setting up a holding company without any physical assets. Officials deny that Cyprus has had any problems with cigarette smuggling, terror finance or the arms trade. To prepare for its entry into the European Union in May 2004, lawmakers enacted legislation to strengthen anti-money-laundering rules, require greater transparency in business dealings and discourage tax evaders.
U.S. officials agree that Cyprus has come a long way in cleaning up its act. Over the past decade it has put in laws that comply with international standards, requiring, for example, people entering or leaving the country to declare currency or gold bullion worth $15,500 or more. Banks must report large cash deposits and suspicious transactions, and bank officials may be held personally liable if their institutions scrub clean dirty money. U.S. Treasury officials do concede that Cyprus is likely to have money-laundering problems for some time. "The question is, what are the Cypriots going to do about it?" says one.
For American companies, though, there are still obvious attractions. Cyprus offers the lowest corporate tax rate in the EU, 10%, as well as a bevy of tax breaks and 33 international treaties to prevent double-taxation.
To spread the word, delegations of Cypriot tax professionals and chamber-of-commerce types have traveled in the last year to such places as Shanghai, Beijing, Bangalore, New Delhi and Vienna. Timothy Osburne, an American partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers, flies from his home base in the capital Nicosia to San Francisco and other U.S. cities to persuade investors that Cyprus offers some of the best tax breaks around. As a result, the number of new holding and trading companies registered in Cyprus last year was 14,500, up 70% from the 2002 volume. That's just a start. "No serious international investor will do his planning without having Cyprus as one of the top options," says Phidias Pilides, head of PWC's Nicosia office.
To the casual observer, this remote island appears to be a quiet vacation spot, with English speakers, safe streets, pleasant beaches and decent restaurants. Banks and government offices shut down by the early afternoon in the summer. Shops are closed Wednesday afternoons and most of the weekend. In the mountains that rise to the northeast of Kyrenia, with its glittering horseshoe-shaped harbor, sits the village of Bellapais, where there is a peaceful abbey and an old mulberry called the Tree of Idleness. Legend has it anyone who sits under the tree is struck by a sudden and intense languor.
The mythic birthplace of Aphrodite, Cyprus has long been a center of intrigue. Many times conquered by stronger powers, it landed in British hands in 1878. Sunlight and low crime brought tourists from the U.K.; low taxes kept them there. The Cypriots won their independence in 1960, but it was a fleeting moment in a 10,000-year history. Amid a coup attempt in 1974, Turkey invaded, seized the northern third of the island, expelled Greek-Cypriots from their homes and named the new entity the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus--not recognized by any nation other than Turkey. The Turkish exclave remains.
Tension festered and occasionally flared, but compared with its neighbors, Cyprus was an island of stability. Years of British rule meant British law and plenty of well-schooled accountants and lawyers. Multinationals set up outposts to do business in the Middle East and north Africa. In the mid-1970s Michael Zampelas, then head of PWC's Cyprus office (and now mayor of Nicosia) heard from Dutch clients that they wanted to set up investment vehicles in Cyprus, but the taxes were too high. He and others did some lobbying. The government repaired its oversight by offering a 4.25% tax rate for offshore companies and drew as many as 50,000 of them in the years to come.
These new businesses created jobs and $600 million in annual tax revenue. But Cyprus also became something of an entrepôt for dirty dealings in the Middle East. Cigarette smuggling was one perennial problem. And in the 1990s Cyprus was among 14 countries with businesses that illegally provided Saddam Hussein with conventional weapons, according to a comprehensive report to the CIA on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. Cyprus-registered companies also contracted to buy oil and chemical materials from Iraq in violation of the UN embargo. One company in the southern city of Limassol, Pediment Holdings Ltd., wrote a letter to an Iraqi official, according to the report to the CIA, saying it was prepared to buy petroleum products at the Iraq-Iran border, transport them by truck and send a $10 million payment to an Amman, Jordan bank account.
One result of these dirty dealings with Saddam was the UN-backed oil-for-food program, which itself proved easy to manipulate. Once again Cyprus was in the center of a storm. Both U.S. and UN investigations show evidence that the administrator of the program, Cypriot diplomat Benon Sevan, reaped at least $150,000 through the illicit sale of Iraqi crude. (He denies it.) A far bigger alleged participant was a privately held Swiss company called Glencore, formerly known as Marc Rich & Co. AG (Marc Rich divested his interest in 1994). According to the exhaustive inquiry into the program conducted by Paul Volcker, Glencore bought at least 122 million barrels of oil from Iraq through other trading companies and often paid surcharges to agents such as Murtaza Lakhani, Glencore's "man in Baghdad." At least some of the surcharge money was allegedly routed through Lakhani's Cyprus bank account. In a letter included in the Volcker report, Glencore denies wrongdoing.
U.S. companies ensnarled in the scandal also went through Cyprus. One leading financier of Iraqi crude, a Houston company called Bayoil, allegedly paid for 28 liftings of oil for extremist Russian politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky, sending $1.7 million to the account of a Liberian outfit called Plasco Shipping Co. Ltd., allegedly linked with a Bayoil employee. Bank records show Plasco transferred a similar sum to a Cyprus account with the reference "in favor of Igor Lebedev"--Zhirinovsky's son. (Zhirinovsky has denied any wrongdoing.) Bayoil's owner, David Chalmers Jr., has been indicted by a federal grand jury in New York for alleged manipulation of the program. He has pleaded not guilty.
So has Oscar Wyatt Jr., to charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and engage in prohibited financial transactions with Iraq. The iconoclastic Texas oil tycoon allegedly acted as an oil consultant or trader on behalf of two Cyprus companies, Mednafta Trading Co. and Nafta Petroleum. Wyatt had a long history with Saddam. The first to bring Iraqi oil to the U.S. back in 1972, Wyatt met with the dictator in December 1990 and helped with the release of 21 U.S. hostages there. But according to the indictment and the Volcker report, Nafta and Mednafta companies paid surcharges for Iraqi oil and arranged for cargo ships to pick up the oil from Iraq and ship it to larger companies with their own refineries. As late as January 2003 Wyatt allegedly sent a fax to an Iraqi official on Mednafta stationery to request a meeting in Baghdad.
At the same time, Cyprus proved a magnet for Russian kleptocrats who were drawn by the low tax rate, visa-free travel and a shared religious heritage. Russian businessmen bought villas in the hills surrounding Limassol. By 1995 Cyprus was home to some 2,000 Russian companies, and $1 billion a month was flowing out of Russia into Cypriot banks.
Much of it unclean. The Russian mafia controlled as much as 70% to 80% of all business in the motherland during the mid-1990s, according to a report by Izvestiia. Sending money to havens like Cyprus kept it safe from tax collectors, on-the- take bureaucrats, creditors, other gangsters and shaky Russian banks. The now imprisoned Mikhail Khodorkovsky owned his shares in Yukos through a complex structure of offshore companies in Cyprus and elsewhere.
Sometimes violence followed the money. In one case two years ago three Russians were bludgeoned to death in a villa in the resort town of Paphos, in western Cyprus. Today Russian crime has a different face in Cyprus, where a thriving sex trade draws women from former Soviet states. In 2001 Cyprus' immigration chief was reportedly jailed for 20 months after being found guilty of accepting bribes to issue work permits for foreign women to work in so-called cabarets with names like White Girls Nightclub and Frolix. By 2003 some 2,000 women per year arrived in Cyprus to work in these clubs, often under duress, helping to generate $70 million per year in prostitution revenue--plus fees for pimps who work in the women's home countries and broker the traffic.
While the government has made headway in cracking down on the problem, a recent U.S. State Department report says trafficking is still a problem and tells a fairly typical story of an 18-year-old Ukrainian woman who spoke no English but responded last year to an Internet ad for a waitress job in Cyprus. Instead she landed at a cabaret in a rural area, where the owner withheld her travel documents and forced her to have sex with customers. One purchased her for the night, took her to his farm, had sex with her and then forced her to clean his barn. In a case cited by sex trafficking researchers at Johns Hopkins University, a young Russian cabaret worker was held captive in a Nicosia apartment and tried to escape by tying bed sheets together and climbing down the balcony. The sheets slipped apart and she fell to her death.
Cyprus has also gained notoriety, thanks in part to geography, as a hub for the trade in small arms and ammunition. Year after year, reports the annual Small Arms Survey, produced by the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Cyprus imports these goods in quantities that vastly exceed the amount its citizens or military could reasonably use. In 2003 the nation imported an estimated $185 million worth of revolvers, military rifles and machine guns, putting it second after the U.S. Incomplete data from 2004 put Cyprus up there with Germany, France and the U.K.
The single biggest supplier of arms: Russia. Yet the bulk of goods come from unspecified nations, and it is unclear if the guns ever make it ashore--or are simply invoiced through Cypriot front companies. No one seems to know where the guns go.
Cypriot officials assert that the nation complies with all international arms-trade regulations and protocols. While the survey information comes directly from Cyprus customs records, researchers are befuddled by the lack of transparency. "This stuff kind of appears from nowhere and then disappears to nowhere," says Nicholas Marsh, a researcher at the International Peace Research Institute, in Oslo, which compiled the data.
If you want dirty business, look at the Turk-occupied north, say Cypriot authorities. A potentially charming tourist destination, this slice of the island has been racked by embargoes and years of ethnic anger, making it all but impossible for sizable investment to take root. A visitor notices the abundance of half-finished construction projects--launched when the island's divisions seemed at an end--and a dearth of upscale hotels, Western banks and amenities. The void is filled by casinos, some two dozen of them, owned by Turkish mainlanders and essentially unregulated. Some 500 "finance institutions" that give loans are also unregulated, and a 2004 U.S. State Department report says northern Cyprus has become a conduit for narcotics trade between Turkey and Britain as well as a destination for money launderers.
One finance institution, First Merchant Bank OSH, was a conduit for funds transferred between organized crime rings and corrupt politicians, according to the U.S. Treasury Department. The department also reports allegations that one of the bank's original shareholders, Vladimir Kobarel, was a former KGB employee who used First Merchant to transfer "underground" money to Russian banks. Another partner, Tarik Umit, served in Turkish intelligence, and is believed to have been killed in connection with a Turkish investigation into links among intelligence, right-wing politicians and the mafia. A third founder, Hakki Yaman Namli, was convicted along with the bank for laundering $450 million. The conviction was overturned, but at the trial he insisted First Merchant was owned by one Charles Ewert, a onetime executive at Austrian gun manufacturer Glock later sentenced to 20 years in a Luxembourg prison for attempting to murder the company founder. Namli is now running from another U.S. federal court indictment alleging wire fraud.
Stories like this make the occupied area an easy target for Cypriot officials. "There are some very, very serious problems regarding illegal action in the occupied areas of Cyprus," says Doros Theodorou, minister of justice, as one cigarette after another burns slowly in the ashtray in front of him. "And I'm not speaking only about money laundering. I'm speaking about every illegal action."
But such politicians are part of the problem because they refuse to deal with leaders of the occupied areas. Rather than cracking down on criminals wherever they live on an island, the government's political energy is channeled almost exclusively into etching deeper divisions--three decades after the invasion. In January the Cypriot president refused to meet with Jack Straw after the British foreign minister had the gall to seek a solution to the division by meeting with the leader of the northern entity in his presidential palace. The Turkish side behaves no better.
For all that, the campaign to lure outside corporations seems to be working. Big multinationals like Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ) and Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) already have representatives on the island or regional offices for sales into the rest of the Mediterranean and Middle East. Chinese companies have recently expressed interest in sending thousands of workers over to set up clothing and soft toy factories there for easier access to these markets. But Antis Nathanael, director of trade at the Cyprus Chamber of Commerce & Industry, says Cyprus is too small to accommodate this kind of large-scale industry. "We're only 700,000 people," he says. "Where are we going to house 50,000 Chinese?"
A bigger benefit would come from creating more holding companies, boosting a financial services industry that along with tourism already accounts for three-quarters of the country's $17 billion economy. Marketing materials play up the fact that Cyprus follows the same regulations as other nations in the EU--but has lower taxes. "Taxwise, Cyprus is probably in the best position in the European Union," says Charilaos G. Stavrakis, deputy chief executive at the Bank of Cyprus Group.
Setting up a holding company involves paying $4,000 or so to a lawyer or an accounting firm like PWC, which will help select an approvable company name, write up articles of association and appoint shareholders and directors. The process takes a few weeks, and most larger firms will require various forms of identification, as well as reference letters from a prior bank.
A small Nicosia outfit called Vishnu Enterprises advertises it can set up a ready-made company in a mere 24 hours. There is no need for the investor to visit Cyprus, and Vishnu says it can appoint a director, secretary and shareholder, which "makes it impossible for a third party to identify the real owner." Emil Deecken, Vishnu's managing director, says he knows of plenty of lawyers who ask no questions at all before setting up a new company. Says he: "It's like buying a piece of bread, it's so easy."
So far there has been some interest in Cyprus from U.S. construction and airline businesses, says Kyriacos Kokkinos, president of the American-Cyprus chamber and head of IBM Cyprus. But the Cypriots still have to compete with Switzerland, which recently attracted multinationals like Procter & Gamble and Colgate by offering even lower tax rates. For investment into India, American investors are more comfortable with tried-and-true Mauritius. Even Russian investors are starting to look elsewhere, paying a bit more in taxes in a place like Luxembourg to avoid the stigma of Cyprus. "U.S. investors are not worried about reputation," says London tax lawyer Joel McDonald. "It's just a tax-planning tool. But if you're a Russian, it's another black mark. People say, 'Oh, Cyprus, of course.' "

The Kings are dead. Long live the Queen!

Pou ti Cyprus Mail, polla wraio... Salam Alekum Habibi Zoppo Kypree

Nick Pittas takes an irreverent look at what the future might hold for Cyprus AS WE MOVE closer to spring parliamentary elections, resumption of 'technical' talks between our two main communities, and the inevitable blistering heat of another summer sizzler, our politicians and pundits may do well to consider some possibilities for the longer term future of the Cyprus problem. These are offered on the strength of the premise that in Cyprus, unlike most of the rest of the world where five minutes in politics is a long time, the prevailing political clich? is, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Or to paraphrase the late, great Andy Warhol, in Cyprus everyone gets their 15 or 30 or 45 or 60 years of fame.
2008: Tassos Papadopoulos is re-elected president of the Republic on a platform that his handling of the Cyprus problem has placed Ankara on the defensive, and no one outside Cyprus talks about the Annan plan. Meanwhile, Ankara is opening up discussions on the third and fourth chapters of her EU negotiating process, and has reached a tacit agreement with the EU to defer de facto recognition of Cyprus and to delay opening her airports and harbours to Cypriot flagged ships and planes until she opens the chapter on transportation, which all have agreed to put off to the end of the process in 10 or 15 years time.
2010: Costas Karamanlis steps down as Prime Minister of Greece. He is replaced by Dora Bakoyianni who announces her first official visitor in Athens is not Tassos Papadopoulos, but her close friend Tayyip Erdogan. Foreign Minister George Iacovou in a rambling, drooling speech proclaims he and Dora are very good friends, and left wing Greek Cypriot politicians plead with newspaper editors not to bring out old clippings of them referring to Dora and her father, Constantinos Mitsotakis, as Quislings of American Imperialism.
2012: Greece and Turkey reach agreement on the Aegean boundary issues. The Turkish Grand National Assembly revokes the "cassus belli" clause. Tayyip Erdogan and Dora Bakoyianni sign the treaty in Constantinople and inaugurate an era of friendship and partnership in the Aegean. All EU partners are invited to the ceremony. Cyprus is represented by a shuffling, sleepy George Iacovou, who is assigned a seat at the back next to pseudo president Mehmet Ali Talat. They both are heard to agree at last on something technical: Dora and Tayyip look lovely signing the treaty on the shores of the Bosporus on a windswept morning in May. Dora is elected Prime Minister of Greece on a wave of national enthusiasm. Dora and Tayyip receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
2013: In a surprise turn, with the backing of his new coalition partner, Nik Anastassiades , Tassos Papadopoulos is re-elected President of the Republic for a third time on the strength that his majestic handling of the Cyprus problem has resulted in the international community totally forgetting the Annan plan. In fact, in his best line against his principal opponent Demetris Christofias, he croaks that even he can no longer remember who Annan was. Ankara is opening the 15th and 16th chapters of its accession negotiations and George Iacovou sputters to reporters that Cyprus still has 43 vetoes to use up.
2014: A chastened Demetris Christofias steps down as leader of AKEL /New Forces. The ever suave, ever smiling Nik Katsourides smoothly defeats the ever young, ever sincere marketing man George Lillikas as the new leader of self-proclaimed progressive forces in Cyprus. Christofias quietly accepts a humanitarian offer from his new best friend, the pseudo Talat, to join him in new retirement community near Dikomo for politicians past their best before date, a very rare species in Cyprus for anyone under 85 and still walking.
2015: Tayyip Erdogan and Costas Karamanlis are appointed presidents of their respective countries. Dora Bakoyianni warmly greets the new Turkish Prime Minister, Abdullah Gul, trumpets that Greek-Turkish relations have never been better and expresses her deep pleasure at how well Turkey's accession negotiations are progressing.
2017: Dora Bakoyianni, known affectionately throughout the world as the Balkan Empress, is re-elected Prime Minister in another smashing victory over the ailing George Papandreou, brought back to political life to lead a still splintered PASOK party. George is quite philosophical, reminding reporters that his fate was predicted back in the 1960s during the time of his namesake grandfather by that oracle of American sages Yogi Berra, who was once overheard to say about nothing in particular: "It's d?j? vu all over again".
2018: Tassos Papadopoulos is finally diagnosed with Alzheimer's when he forgets he is still president. His principal advisers Tzionis and Pasiardis convene a secret conclave at the Presidential Palace and announce his successor: his son Nik. President Papadopoulos II is elected on a platform that he will continue his father's impeccable handling of the Cyprus problem, and that he has in his possession a hitherto unknown blueprint for a solution bearing the name of a forgotten UN functionary named Annan.
2019: Ankara implements the Customs Protocol and opens its airports and harbours to Cypriot shipping. Cypriot politicians in unison declare the day a great victory for Cyprus diplomacy. Johnny Omirou of EDEK especially is so overwhelmed with emotion that he is admitted to the still new Nicosia General Hospital for observation.
2020: The EU and Turkey announce the successful conclusion of Turkey's accession negotiations ahead of schedule. Cypriot foreign minister and trusted adviser to all Papadopoulos presidents, George Iacovou, awakens long enough to insert his false teeth and declare that Cyprus still has a veto. He is soon snoozing again, and heard muttering under his breath that he and Dora are very good friends.
2022: Turkey joins the EU after signing with Greece and the two main Cypriot communities a federal, bi-communal and bi-zonal partnership agreement to establish the United Republic of Cyprus on terms eerily familiar to certain antiquarians as the Annan Plan. Joined by new UN Secretary-general Dora Bakoyianni, President Nik Papadopoulos, known by everyone as the Younger, in a shock and awe inspiring ceremony declares it the final vindication of his father who is propped up on a throne next to him. The Younger smoothly passes authority to the first rotating President of the URC, his star brother Serdar Denktash. The other Niks nod their heads appreciatively under the hot Nicosia sun.
2023: In one of their first joint acts as President and Vice President, in a show of unity and deep symbolic meaning, the "Gillette twins" as they are fondly known, Denktash the Younger and his V-P Marcos Baghdatis, finally relieved of his national service requirements, unveil a Makarios sized statue of the president's late father Rauf holding a tennis racket on the walls overlooking Paphos Gate, as if to return service to Markos Drakos still lobbing grenades from down below.
2025: In their first ever consensual constitutional amendment, the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities agree to transform the URC, cutely shortened by football fans everywhere to Cyprus United, into a monarchy. The recently retired and thoroughly amused Dora Bakoyianni graciously accepts the island's unanimous invitation, and sails regally into Famagusta harbour in her personal yacht named "Empress of the Balkans" to take the Throne of Cyprus vacant since the fall of the Lusignan dynasty.
Across the land jubilation and cheers. "The Kings are dead. Long live the Queen!"

Copyright © Cyprus Mail 2006

Empros paidia yia tnv patrida...

Empros paidiaaaa yia tnv patrida eivai o 8avatos glukooooos t'oplo stov omoooo gorga kivame, dev 8a perasn o ex8roooos, t'oplo sto omo gorga kivame dev 8a perasei o ex8ros!

Tassos: Tze va a88imase Nikola mou, osoi eipav NAI, oi Tourkoi, oi Tourkokiprioi, oi arapides, oi Angloi, oi Amerikavoi, o verheugen, o Anastasiadns, o Simis o Sioukkorouglou, tora o Xatznkostis, n Ntora, o Papavtreou, o Simitns, o Sharon kai o Mavtis tis skalas eivai OLOI ex8roi mas!
Nikolas: Mev eshis evoia papa 8a klapsw tze egw stnv tnleorasn ama fko proedros

A tribute to Nikos Lanitis

Abstracts from a Cyprus Mail article:

“OUR society is sick; suffering from the tumour of intercommunal strife. What I proposed was not a sweet – the sort of thing all too often offered to the public by people in politics – but a medicine; and people do not like medicines. The present cleavage will sooner or later turn into actual hate… the result will be open conflict…”These words were written by Nicholas C Lanitis in 1963 in the appendix to his booklet Our Destiny, a compilation of articles first published in the Cyprus Mail in March of that year. His words were to become prophetic with the outbreak of hostilities between Greek and Turkish Cypriots at the end of 1963, but few if any were listening. Nicholas C Lanitis, businessman, author, idealist and family man passed away a week ago at the age of 87, 10 days after returning to Cyprus as was his last wish. The words he wrote 42 years go are just as relevant today to the country he loved but exiled himself from for 34 years.Our Destiny, he wrote, was intended for those who loved Cyprus and were interested in the welfare of its people. It attempted, he said, to give a solution for bridging the gap that existed between the two communities, but “above all” to imbue to all Cypriots holding positions of responsibility with “a spirit… of true love for all Cypriots, irrespective of race or creed, which are so important in bringing about a solution to the problems at issue”.“This for him was what it was all about,” said his daughter Evie Lanitis. “He had a tremendous love for is country and its people. Everything that comes through to me is the total love he had for his country. That was really deep inside of him”Lanitis was born in Limassol in 1917. He was educated in Limassol and was a scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge. He served in the government, as Deputy Controller of Supplies in 1941 and 1942, and submitted a number of reports on the economic problems that faced Cyprus during World War II, before founding his own company, Lanitis Brothers, in 1943, of which he remained chairman until he retired in 2001. The company began by producing essential oils and later moved on to concentrated fruit juice and then brought Coca Cola to Cyprus.In 1944 he published Rural Indebtedness and Agricultural Cooperation in Cyprus. Other subsequent publications included A Question of Money and Trade Unionism and the Provision of Social Services in Cyprus. He also published a large number of newspaper articles, and was the founder and first chairman of the Employers and Industrialists Federation, and the Cyprus Productivity Centre.In the 1944 book, Lanitis said: “The true and most valuable type of entrepreneur is the one who despises subsidies and protection and is opposed to interference from above. He is also keen on solving his problems by himself and likes to be left alone. In so doing, he helps others and contributes to a great extent to the strength of the economy as a whole.”Evie said this essentially summed up her father’s approach to business, which did not at the time ‘fit’ with the way things were done in Cyprus. Evie said that during a brief visit to the island around three years ago Lanitis had been was asked by a local banker if he thought things had improved in his opinion. “Hoping he was going to get a raving reply, he shook his head in dismay ‘stagnant’, he said. To the point. He couldn’t stand liars”Despite his absence, Lanitis still held a deep knowledge of everything that was going on in Cyprus. Evie said she believed he also chose Andorra because he loved the mountains and he loved skiing. “He was very well respected and loved in Andorra,” she said.She said that when her father was ill last year, the president of Andorra visited him and said to the doctors: “It’s people like Mr Lanitis that we want in Andorra.”

Apparently, he didn't setup any websites calling himself 'great man' (akoueis Lissaridn???) tze epirev tous xapari tous blakes Kypreous politikous pou to 1963...

O arfos tou Hariri

Ivtalos ta kataferev o arfos tou Makariti tou Hariri pou tov Libano tze egive upourgos dikaiosivns stnv Kypro??? Tsiakkarete va doume, pote politografi8ike tze allakse ovoma? Av bapsi ta fridkia tou pavtos o Doros, mporei va paei sto Libavov va pei oti ev o Hariri, ev eskoto8ike tze eksafavistike evva givei tze pro8ipourgos...

To problnma tou Kypreou...

Av kapoios se mia xwra tns Eurwpns sumperiferete sav gaidouri, e.g. mpevvei mprosta pou tous allous sti grammn, mila divata tze evoxln tous allous, stamata mestnv mesn tou dromou va milisei me to parea tou tze perimevei o kosmos pou pisw, klp klp, mporeis va tous kameis paratnrnsn tze most of the times they will apologize but in no case evva sou to peksouv tze pallikarka tze va se apilisouv va se derouv malista "eshis problnma... va to lisoume" would be the answer yiati mila me to parea tou mestn mesi tou dromou tze karteras pou pisw yia 5 lepta... H idia sumperifora epektnvete sto strato, astivomia, dnmosious upallnlous, klp klp alla o Kypreos evvev kaulavtns pallikari tze ama katalabei he is fucked givete kattou.i. ara telika 8rasidilos. I have witnessed myself evav astivomiko pou epeze to pallikari alla when he figured out oti o politis pou tou epezev to mavka ev o gios kapoiou powerful became like a little kid who just got caught for doing something bad. Telika kati problnma eshi sto attitude katoikwv megalwv vnsiwv, yiati mesa sto mikrokosmo tous avaptissete n uperopsia tze overconfidence. Exw eva filo pou emegalwse se eva mikro vnsi tis Elladas tze lalei mou eimouv o kallnteros tou sxoleiou mexri pou epia eva kalotzeri frovtistirio stiv A8nva va proetimastw yia tes eisagwgikes eksetaseis tou pavepistimiou tze o shirotteros tis taksis ntav 3 fores kallntteros pou emeva. Paromio attitude me tous Kypreous exouv tze oi Puerto Ricans, overconfident arrogant bortoi ara I really don't know what the solution to the problem of Cyprus would be, besides emigrating abroad. You can try and live in your own world there but it's extremely difficult given the size of the place and you might go to the other end of Cyprus in the middle of nowhere va ebris isixia and suddenly "ooooo file mou ti kamveis!!!!???". On the other hand, ospou o Kypreos sav maza ev ishe rialia until the beginning of the 80s ntav vakkov poio sivamevos alla meta egivev tzeivov pou lalouv "Dostou xorkatn shiviv va fki me tes podives pasto krebatn". Erkouvtav oi ksevoi sti Kypro priv 20 xrovia and they would comment poso filikos ev o kosmos. Tora 8oreis to kypreo, mia arkofatsa me evav ifos pou lalei 'basto tov 8eo pou ta artzidkia' tze foase tov. You cannot be friendly anymore yiati evva se piav tze sto peripeksimo. Ama eisai aves8itos you can have a 'good life' in Cyprus, alla me tiv idia logiki you can have a good life in Bankladesh ama ev xovtrn n petsa sou provided that you live comfortable. Ara, n' prepei to biotechnology park R&D pou 8elei va kamei o Lillikas va paragei kati sav valium without side effects pou va bon8nsn sto va mev fakkas pevva yia tipote and be able to live happily in Cyprus, n' pou prepei va metikisouv oi zoppobortoi tze va ka8arisi o topos which is not feasible. Personally, if I had to live in Cyprus, I would settle in Kerinia yiati oi Tourkokiprioi toulaxistov ev poio filikoi tze down to earth pou ta ktnva ta dika mas...
Pete mou va doume yiati egw ev brisko akrn me touti ti katastasn... O makaritns o Nikolas Lanitis esikostiv tze epiev stnv Andora tze fisika eipav oi Kypreoi oti epiev va zisi tziame yia va glitosi pou tous forous... this is the guy pou touta pou laloume to 2006 etolmnse va ta grapsei sti efnmerida to 1963... a visionary who simply saw where we would end up me tes malakies pou ekamvav o Makarios me ta kopelia tou tote. Favtastnte tov Bettoven va megalovev se eva xorko tis Kyprou tze pou 5 xrovwv va pezei oulln mera piavov, upirxe periptosn va mev tov efkallav pellov tze me paratsoukliv "o pellopetebns"??? Ara, ptou papoutsi makria tze visit every once in a while to see few relatives and friends tze va fame soubla...

Mikellidns yia to ttoppouziasma

Mikellidns again... Just one comment, evomiza oti o Makarios ishev tov arfotekvov tou va ttoppouziasei tze va ka8arizei kosmo alla apo oti lalei o Mikellidns epievvev tze o idios tze etapaviaze kosmo. Again, pou mitsi tze pou pellov...

Στην οδό Αρμενίας
Το φιλμ εντυπωσίασε όλους, ακόμα και τους μεγαλύτερους φασίστες. Τους είδα στην τηλεόραση να εκφράζουν αποτροπιασμό. Ο Τάσσος μάσσεψε. Ο Δώρος φύρτηκε. Τον γενικό εισαγγελέα δεν τον είδα, ούτε τον μητροπολίτη Λεμεσού. Ο Χριστόφιας όμως κόντεψε να κλάψει. Όλοι είπαν ότι φταίει ο ποινικός ανακριτής ή περιμένουμε τον ποινικό ανακριτή ή δεν είπε ο ποινικός ανακριτής. Όλοι αυτοί, γνωστοί για τις φασιστικές τους αντιλήψεις, για το γινάτι τους και για την αίσθηση ότι τα ξέρουν όλα, ξαφνικά αφέθηκαν στον ποινικό ανακριτή.Ποιοι είναι αυτοί που κείτονται στην Αρμενίας; Δυο φοιτητές ακούρευτοι, οι οποίοι, αντί να γλείψουν, έστησαν στους ΜΜαδίτες. Ποιοι είναι οι ΜΜαδίτες; Καλά παιδκιά. Αστυνομικούδκια, κακοπιερωμένα που, αν τους δεις αλλού, δεν θα τους ξεχωρίσεις από τους υπόλοιπους Κυπραίους. Ποιος μετέτρεψε αυτά τα τέκνα της πατρίδος σε κανίβαλους; Ποιος τους έκανε να κλοτσούν μες τα νεφρά τζιαι να φακκούν κκελάες πας τα πεζοδρόμια; Ποιος έκαμε την ευαίσθητη αστυνομικίνα ψυχρό παρατηρητή ενός εγκλήματος;Δεν φοβήθηκαν, γαμώ το κέρατό μου, ότι μπορεί να τους σπάσουν τη σπλήνα με τις κλοτσιές στα νεφρά ή να τους ανοίξουν εγκεφαλική αιμορραγία με τα κτυπήματα της κκελές στο πεζοδρόμιο τζιαι να τους αφήκουν τέζα; Γιατί να φοβηθούν; Την άλλη φορά, οι ίδιοι οι ΜΜαδίτες σκότωσαν εν ψυχρώ τον παρανοϊκό και την γκόμενα στη Χλώρακα. Ο Κληρίδαρος και ο βοηθός του, ο Ευαγγέλου, τους κάλυψαν πλήρως. Γιατί να φοβηθούν τώρα; Ο Τάσσαρος και ο Δώρος θα τους κάλυπταν και πάλι. Φυσικά υπάρχει δυστυχώς το βίντεο και μπορεί η Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση να έλθει αυτή τη φορά και να τους πιάσει από τον κώλο. Αλλά πού να φανταστούν ότι υπήρχε πελλός, που δεν φοβόταν ότι θα τον μασήσουν και έβγαζε βίντεο! Αυτά τα πράματα, αγαπητοί μου αναγνώστες, συμβαίνουν κάθε μέρα. Πέφτει τοππούζιν άγριο. Δέρνουν Πακιστανούς, δέρνουν Πόντιους, δέρνουν χασικλήδες, δέρνουν όποιον δεν γλείφει την εξουσία. Τους δέρνουν με κάθε τρόπο, εξευτελίζοντάς τους ψυχικά είτε καταπονώντας τους σωματικά. Δυστυχώς δεν υπάρχουν βίντεο για να τα δείτε και να συγκινηθείτε, εσείς Κύπριοι που κόπτεσθε μόνο για την πούγκα σας και αδιαφορείτε πλήρως αν σφάζουν τους άλλους γύρω σας.Φυσικά θα ξέρετε ότι η τωρινή εξουσία είναι εκεί για τα τελευταία 50 χρόνια. Οι ίδιοι άνθρωποι που μεγάλωσαν μέσα σε ξυλοδαρμούς, σε δολοφονίες, σε σφαγές, σε σοβινιστικά πογκρόμ. Ο Μακάριος κατέβαινε στους αστυνομικούς σταθμούς και έδερνε ο ίδιος. Τον πατέρα μου ο Γιωρκάτζης μέσω πραιτωριανών τον εκατασκότωσε και τον πέταξε στην Αθαλάσσα. Τον γείτονά μου, το φίλο της Αντρούλας, σε ένα πουριτανικό παραλήρημα τον σκότωσαν μπροστά στα μάτια μας. Παρακολούθησα την ανατίναξη του Πουμπουρή. Ήμουν στις φυλακές και έβλεπα πώς χειρίζονταν τους τότε κρατούμενους της ΕΟΚΑ Β΄. Γενικά μεγάλωσα και μεγαλώσαμε μέσα στο έγκλημα, την πολιτική δολοφονία και την ασυδοσία της εξουσίας. Η σημερινή εξουσία αποτελεί μετάλλαξη της εξουσίας του '60 και έχει κληρονομήσει όλη την ασυδοσία του πατερούλη του έθνους. Έτσι δρούσε ο Κυπριανού, έτσι κι ο Κληρίδης, έτσι δρα και ο Τάσσος σήμερα.Κοιτάξτε γύρω σας τις σκυμμένες κεφαλές, τους ανθρώπους που δεν τολμούν να πουν τη γνώμη τους και χέζονται την εξουσία. Φοβούνται τη διαπόμπευση, τον ξυλοδαρμό και την απόλυση. Φοβούνται ότι θα χάσουν το ψωμί τους και θα τους μαζέψει σε κάποια γωνιά η αστυνομία και θα τους μασήσει. Αυτή είναι η εθνική μας κληρονομιά: Ο φόβος, τον οποίο μας εμπότισε 40 χρόνια Μακαροκρατίας και Ακελοκρατίας. Γι' αυτό προσπάθησε ο Τάσσος να καλύψει τη ΜΜΑΔ. Γιατί ποιος θα του κάμνει τις σκατοδουλειές του, αν την εκθέσει; Ποιος θα παρακολουθεί τα τηλέφωνα κλπ, κλπ.Γι΄ αυτό, μη διερωτάστε για ποιον κτυπά η καμπάνα. Η καμπάνα κτυπά για όλους!
Του Γιάγκου Μικελλίδη

Evva faw kaveva bouzouvopatso pou ti kartava...

Iakovou thinking... "Dkiaole gamoto... eixa tov xaskasmievo to Moliviati tze oti tou elalouv epistefkev... toutov tov kartavov pou me perva tze dkio tzefalades pou tov ibra mesta podkia mou... av kamw tze kamia malakia twra evva mou avtivaksi kaveva gaouropatso va mivo sekkos... tze va 8imo8i tze o tziris tis o gero drakoumel va arkepsi va ksitimazi pale..."

Adete tov ufos pavtos, opos to moro pou to ebalev n daskala timoria...

Eshieksiksi Avtigovi...

http://www.antigonipapadopoulou.com/ upopsifia bouleutns tou DHKO
8aumaste tnv Avtigovn Papadopoulou pou espoudase me dkio upotrofeies, mia tou British Council tze mia tou Fullbright, alla ev tze lalei oti ev n korn tou Pasxaln Pasxalidn pou ntav o proedros tou singrotimatos EME (Ellnvikn Metalleutikn Etereia->KEO, Ellnvikn Trapeza, Metalleia, Tsimevtopoia Basilikou, Papades, klp klp) tze o tziris tis, kopelliv tou makariou, ishev mia faousa rialia. I thought the idea of a scholarship is to help people who are bright but do not have the funds to study. Eshieksiksi, efaav espasav tze ekavovisamev tiv korn mas va paei va spoudasei me upotrofeia ampa tze ksodepsoume tze mia mpakkira tze va sterisoume tes upotrofies pou tzeivous pou tes exouv ananki... Avtrapou tze vakkov Avtigovi...

Σπούδασε χημεία στις ΗΠΑ και Αγγλία. (Υποτροφίες Fulbright, Βρετανικού Συμβουλίου και Πανεπιστημίου Lancaster). Μεταπτυχιακό Δίπλωμα στη Διοίκηση Επιχειρήσεων. Εργάστηκε ως Διευθύντρια Ελέγχου Ποιότητας της Κάρλσπεργκ (1978-2001). Εγκατάλειψε την επαγγελματική σταδιοδρομία, όταν εκλέχτηκε βουλευτής, γιατί πιστεύει στο ασυμβίβαστο μεταξύ δημόσιου αξιώματος και επαγγελματικής ενασχόλησης .

The Zoppobortos Wall of Corruption

1. Makarios 3 nieces, oi avtrades tous egivav CEO Hellenic Bank, gevikos dieu8nvtns upourgeiou georgias and proedros arxns kratikwv ek8esewv...
2. Afxentis Afxentiou who was taking his son with him to trips overseas and when representing the goverment of Cyprus he was promoting his son's business
3. Tooulis Xristodoulou and family. Ekamav etereia yia training twv trapezikwv upallnlwv the moment Tooulis is the regulatory body for the banks... you can imagine how much business the wife and daughter got from this
4. O malakas poio katw pou leei yia to gio tou to texvologo trofimwv
5. O gios tou Spyrou Axilleas (vai tzeivos pou upoti8ete apagagav...) pou tov ekame sto board of directors tis Cyprus Airways
6. O Alekkos Mixanlidis to papopaidi tou Tzikkou who moved the road in Akamas yia va avebei n rimotomia yia to Anassa...

Eshi mia faousav periptwseis... kavovistov mitsi va mpi mestnv kybervnsn tze ev 8a mivi pavw mou koumpare... barte osa cases kserete sta comments and I'll append it to this posting.
Tze me touta oulla karteroume va pame mprosta, in these days of globalization and technology... ttoppouzoi pou krifkouvte se mia govia va perasi n zwn, arrogant overconfident morons pou ka8e Kyriakn mappa tze soubla... Ta wraia tis Kyprou imish...