Makarios Drousiotis and Kyriaki Kyriakou are due to make their first court appearance on Wednesday in the high-profile “Sandy” case, facing a 101-count indictment before Nicosia District Court, with referral to the Nicosia Permanent Criminal Court expected to follow.
The hearing, scheduled for 08:30, is expected to mark the first judicial step since police completed their investigation and the Law Office filed the criminal case.
The indictment lists a total of 101 charges relating to forging a document, circulating a forged document, publishing false news and harassment.
Drousiotis will be represented by a legal team including lawyer Lito Kariolou and the law firm of Christos Klerides.
The “Sandy” case originated with a series of publications by Drousiotis alleging corruption and sexual misconduct involving public figures, centred on messages purportedly exchanged between a woman, Kyriakou, using the pseudonym “Sandy” and former Supreme Court judge Michalakis Christodoulou, who has acknowledged knowing her but denied all allegations of wrongdoing, philenews has previously reported.
Bank searches subsequently found no evidence of funds moved abroad, and the Council of Ministers ordered the material sent to Europol for forensic examination. Police later announced that the messages were fabricated and forged and that the information they contained was false, a conclusion Drousiotis has publicly rejected while continuing to maintain that his own messages are authentic.
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