Members of the English School board have, through a lawyer, filed complaints with the police for illegal recording and threats, they said on Sunday.

Reports to the police had been made for the “serious criminal offences related to the illegal recording of conversations and their dissemination via troll accounts as well as written threatening messages via viber groups,” Katsis LLC said in a statement.

The law office said it was acting for board members Ioanna Demetriou, Antonis Kirmizis, Sener Hasa, Anastasios Kitiou and Nicole Koulouroudia.

The members said the purpose of recording them was to intimidate them and force them to resign.

They said they had also made an immediate complaint to the Child Protection Commissioner and the Personal Data Protection Commissioner.

More complaints are expected, the statement ended.

The statement follows a decision by the cabinet on Friday to discuss the ongoing crisis at the English School at the Council of Ministers meeting next week.

President Nikos Christodoulides has been informed about the matter, and the government had said that “actions and decisions will focus on the well-intentioned interests of the school’s pupils”.

The crisis surrounds the claim that members of the school’s board of governors attempted to intimidate headmaster Stuart Walker into admitting a child who had failed the school’s entrance examinations.