Ustel denies claims he took £300k bribe to build cable car in Kyrenia

The north’s ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel on Thursday denied claims that he had taken a bribe of £300,000 to help facilitate the construction of a cable car in Kyrenia.

The claim had been made by social media journalist Serdinc Maypa, who released a sound recording of a telephone conversation in which an unnamed businessman made the accusations.

Assertions made during the recording point to the call having taken place between 2016 and 2018, when Ustel was a backbencher in the north’s legislature...