Oracle wrote:zan wrote:Oracle wrote:zan wrote:Oracle wrote:zan wrote:Oracle wrote:halil wrote:... but land is forever .....
Not when you have to give it back to those you stole it from, Turk!
Flap flap flap...I thought someone was going to put this little fish out of its misery??
That all you got left Stella....
Resorting to threats again.
I guess it's time you realised civilisation is not for you, and packed your tents to head back to your desert!
Resorting to lies again...Never have you been threatened by me....You are not worth it..
As for the desert....Only if I can ride on your back and you don't get the hump! I have heard you can go for centuries without water!!!
My talents may be many, but they can't beat your natural homing instincts for rejoining your Yeti cousins.
Family is family Stella........You have to put up with your murderous ones and you seam to be happy doing it......
You seem obsessed with murders, but then you do hail from the prime suspects.
There are no suspects any more Stella.....Just a lot of murderers walking around free in the "RoC".....Murderers.....Villains...Bent politicians....
THE ABSURDITY surrounding the Anorthosis allegations, which dominated the news for several days last week, should not surprise anyone as it is perfectly in keeping with the irrationality that has become the trademark of our strange country.
Only in Cyprus could these bizarre goings-on have taken place. The lack of gravity and overall shoddiness that prevailed are features which mark all aspects of our life, including politics.
I have no intention of going into the substance of the case or whether there is sufficient evidence to bring a case against club chairman Andreas Panteli, that is for the police to decide. I am more interested in the behaviour of the main players in this comedy, which confirms the view that in this country everything, no matter how serious, ends up as farce.
Take chairman Panteli – six of his fellow directors went to the police and reported him for allegedly taking money from the club’s kitty, issuing false receipts and of depositing cheques issued by the club in his personal accounts. As expected, he denied the allegations in an issued statement. He was subsequently detained by the police and his lawyer announced that he had “incontrovertible evidence” that proved his client’s innocence.
His client Panteli, however, refused to give a statement to police during his remand. Instead, after three days in custody, he tendered his resignation to the Anorthosis board and signed a document in which he undertook to return “all amounts that are considered to be owed”.
His lawyer, meanwhile, is sacked on air, while representing Panteli in a TV show about the saga (another lawyer called the show to announce that the studio guest did not represent the club chairman) and his ‘incontrovertible evidence’ was never released. Describing these goings-on as farcical could be a bit of an understatement.
But what about the board members? They had gone to the police and reported two or three instances of wrongdoing, giving details of the amounts missing from the club’s funds. A couple of days later, they started publicly threatening to make more revelations about the rest of the cash missing from Anorthosis’ coffers. The message was that more money had been taken and they could give additional statements to the police.
But why did they not give the full story about all the amounts that had been taken when they went to the police the first time? Did they leave some of the money that had been taken in reserve, to be used in the future?
The farce did not end here. The board members eventually announced that after Panteli’s statement they had decided to withdraw their complaints, as if this were a civil case that could be dropped as soon as the aggrieved party chose not to pursue it. But we are not talking about a case in which two people quarrelled and one reported the other to the police of slapping him and withdrawing his complaint once they had made up. Did the directors not realise that they made allegations of criminal offences which cannot be withdrawn?
And what can you say about the team’s coach Timur Ketsbaia and the supporters, all of whom announced from the first moment that they would be standing by Panteli? They were informed that a large amount of money had gone missing from their club and all they could do was sing the praises and cheer the main suspect, before the police had even started investigating the case.
As for the television presenters who did shows about the Anorthosis dispute, they were inconsolable because instead of “sorting out their differences amongst themselves”, management went to the police. Yes, even theft, in this country, is considered nothing more than a minor misunderstanding and the parties involved – victim and thief – are urged to “sort things out”.
Everything can be sorted out in our pitiful society because everyone is excused from taking responsibility for their actions. As for the law, it is an irrelevance that nobody needs to take seriously.