Demetris Syllouris

Demetris Syllouris (Greek: Δημήτρης Συλλούρης; born 27 July 1953) is a Greek-Cypriot politician.

Syllouris was born in Nicosia and studied Civil Engineering at the University of East London.

In October 2020, having been implicated by the Al Jazeera investigation into the selling of Cypriot citizenship, he resigned from his role in government.

[4] In October 2020 Al Jazeera presented hidden-camera footage[5] of Syllouris recorded in October 2019 (at a time in which he was already President of the parliament) in which he meets with journalists posing as representatives of an actually non-existing Chinese businessman and convicted money-launderer.

In response Syllouris claimed that he was actually playing along with the representatives to gather more information and to finally report the case to the authorities, as he did shortly after.