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The Investors, the Friends and the Lost Control Filter of the Presidential Office

Published January 18, 2026, 08:21
The Investors, the Friends and the Lost Control Filter of the Presidential Office

Why wasn't Stratix Wealth checked at the Presidential Office when Florin Georghiou came on their behalf and announced their intention to invest €150,000,000 in Cyprus in energy matters? After Al Jazeera, all these investors were sent to KΥP and ΜOKAS for checks. Why wasn't it done now? You will tell me, the advisor and friend of the President, Giorgos Lakkotrypis, was the intermediary, why do it? How could Giorgos be fooled by them too. How did Florin Georghiou approach Giorgos Lakkotrypis? As he stated in his deposition through Swiss lawyer Markus Baungarthner, this lawyer works at the Swiss boutique bank Julius Baer, where they know Giorgos Lakkotrypis as a technocrat in natural gas and energy matters. Stratix Wealth (the real one) cooperates with Julius Baer, so Florin Georghiou asked the lawyer to arrange a meeting with Giorgos Lakkotrypis, which was done. Florin Georghiou and Lakkotrypis met several times in London and Amsterdam without ever visiting the official offices of Stratix Wealth. Since last June, however, the company has made 3 payments to Mr. Lakkotrypis's company LMA in Cyprus, so everything indicated that we were dealing with a 'serious company' making a serious investment proposal in Cyprus. Under these conditions, the next step had to be taken. Stratix Wealth wanted, allegedly, investments in the energy sector, so the choice of Cyfield Group was probably logical. The company has an almost ready power plant that it could sell entirely or give shares and bring in a partner. There are, of course, some problems for final approval (see the Auditor General's report), so perhaps that's why Charalambos Charalambous was asked for help at the Presidential Office. The President of the Republic may say 'I want this to happen and it will happen', Charalambos said in the joint Zoom call on December 9, 2025, provided, of course, as we understood from the video, that some contributions will be made. But it wasn't about that. After a few days, the websites and emails of Stratix Wealth disappeared. That's when the video editing started. THOUKIS