It was not immediately possible to find public and verifiable information confirming the real identity of the person behind the account. <\/p>\n
The video includes footage of former Energy Minister George Lakkotrypis and the director of the president\u2019s office, Charalambos Charalambous.<\/p>\n
In the recordings, Lakkotrypis is presented as a point of contact for people seeking access to Christodoulides. He appears to walk his interlocutor through the process on payments above the \u20ac1 million campaign limit.<\/p>\n
In a written statement, Lakkotrypis said it is \u201cself-evident\u201d from the video that remarks attributed to him were edited in order to distort the context of the discussions, with the aim of harming Cyprus and himself personally. He added that he filed a complaint with the police. The police have launched an investigation into the video, after Lakkotrypis\u2019 complaint, its spokesman Vyron Vyronos told the Cyprus News Agency.<\/p>\n
The video then shows Charalambous, Christodoulides\u2019 brother-in-law, who explains gaining access to the presidential palace. \u201cWe are the main, the two, contacts here at the palace, next to the president,\u201d he says, adding that interested parties could approach the president with a proposal and money that could be directed toward social contributions.<\/p>\n
There was no official statement from Charalambous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was not immediately possible to find public and verifiable information confirming the real identity of the person…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[125416,4401,16731,782,2115,4244,4406,4410,1435,42,4178,43,8252,2687,2935,4439,53214,4321,2460,40,38,41,39,2957],"class_list":{"0":"post-230567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-campaign-funding","9":"tag-companies","10":"tag-corruption","11":"tag-courts","12":"tag-cyprus","13":"tag-data","14":"tag-defense","15":"tag-elections","16":"tag-energy","17":"tag-headlines","18":"tag-media","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-parliament","21":"tag-payments","22":"tag-platforms","23":"tag-rights","24":"tag-rule-of-law","25":"tag-sanctions","26":"tag-social-media","27":"tag-top-news","28":"tag-top-stories","29":"tag-topnews","30":"tag-topstories","31":"tag-welfare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}