Supreme Court questions warrant in Sandy affair

The Supreme Court on Thursday granted attorney Nikos Clerides permission to apply for the annulment of a search warrant on his premises, in connection with the ‘Sandy affair’.

The petition, filed as a ‘certiorari’ – an order or writ by which a higher court reviews a case tried in a lower court – seeks to have the warrant annulled, effectively rendering it void from the outset.

Clerides at one point – around late 2021 – had briefly been the attorney for ‘Sandy’, the woman at...