A top aide to Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides has resigned after an online video was posted recently in which it was suggested that he and others were using their close ties to the leader to earn favors for would-be investors in exchange for cash. Christodoulides said Monday that he has accepted the resignation of his office's director Charalambos Charalambous in what he called an act of “self-confidence and trust” that the allegations are untrue. Cypriot authorities have called the video a malicious disinformation attack bearing “all the hallmarks” of previous Russian campaigns against other countries. But opposition parties said the video has reenlivened past allegations of rife government corruption.
