Army attacks continue against auditor general

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Army attacks continue against auditor general

The brouhaha over auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides not serving in the reservists continued into Tuesday as parts of the media piled on the official for his ostensible hypocrisy.

In a series of tweets over the weekend, Michaelides said that upon returning to Cyprus after his studies, at the age of 29, he voluntarily declared to the National Guard that he was back and thus available to join the reserves.

He then began to report normally for duty, until the age of 46, when he was appointed auditor-general in 2014.

At that point the army stopped calling him up to...

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