Two more remanded for crossing to north with false insurance (updated)

Two more people were remanded in custody on Tuesday after being arrested on Monday night for attempting to cross to the north by car with false insurance documents.

The pair, aged 67 and 51, were arrested within an hour of each other in unrelated cases attempting to cross to the north via the Ayios Dometios checkpoint.

In court, it was heard that they had both altered the expiry date of their insurance policies on the insurance papers.

Both had claimed to be covered by insurance company Tower Insurance.

They were remanded in custody for three days.

The cases bring the number of arrests for falsifying insurance documents at the crossing points to four in the last three weeks, after two Greek Cypriots had been arrested at the end of September in similar circumstances.

Turkish Cypriot police say their investigation into the cases is ongoing.