Crime

Police have arrested two more people, aged 28 and 53, for an investigated case of real estate fraud in Limassol. Two persons aged 45 and 46 had previously been taken onto custody following their ...

Paphos police on Wednesday are investigating a case of vehicle theft, following their arrest of two suspects, aged 18 and 23. According to police headquarters, the 18-year-old was arrested on Tuesday at ...

A 24-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of stealing from his grandparents’ house. He was apprehended in Paphos after his grandparents complained on Monday that he stole items ...

A 48-year-old man was on Tuesday found guilty in the north of having fatally stabbed 40-year-old Vietnamese national Dam Thi Hop 33 times. Later on Tuesday afternoon, he was sentenced to 39 ...

A 45-year-old and a 46-year-old, arrested as suspects in a case of fraud involving real estate, were remanded for eight days by Limassol District Court on Monday. According to police, ...

Police on Monday arrested a 52-year-old man for child sexual abuse in the form of disseminating abuse online. Investigations of the electronic crime unit led police to search his residence, ...

A 70-year-old man was arrested on Saturday evening after being found to have been almost five times over the legal alcohol limit to drive after running a 62-year-old woman over ...

Two people, aged 30 and 35, were arrested in Paphos on Friday for illegal possession of drugs, police said on Saturday. An arrest warrant was pending for both, and officers found the ...

Cyprus’ Police Chief, Themistos Arnaoutis, has ordered the immediate dismissal of a probationary officer who was arrested on Thursday in connection with an ongoing drug-related investigation. The decision, made with ...

A Pakistani national was sentenced to two years in prison in the north on Friday for his part in the “fake diploma scandal” which has engulfed the north’s higher ...

Police on Thursday arrested three persons in connection with the suspected falsification of contracts for football players. The three suspects – aged 58, 57 and 44 – later appeared before Famagusta district court, which approved ...

The Nicosia criminal court decided on Thursday that Israeli land developer Simon Aykut, charged with the usurpation of Greek Cypriot property in the north, will remain in custody until March 26, ...

A 20-year-old probationary police officer was arrested on Thursday, along with two other individuals, both 22 years old, regarding an ongoing drug case. They were brought before the Nicosia district court, ...

President Nikos Christodoulides offered reassurances on Thursday that there was no threat to state security in the wake of an ongoing police investigation into a criminal group, known to have ...

Police were investigating an explosion that occurred in the early hours of Thursday at a woman’s home in Strovolos. The explosion at the 65-year-old’s home happened shortly before 1...

Cyprus’ police seized over 600 kilograms of cannabis in 2024, according to an announcement on Wednesday night. In a post on X, the social media platform better known as Twitter, the police ...

Authorities are investigating a network of around 80 individuals, with three arrest warrants issued and two suspects already in custody as of Wednesday. The Nicosia district court on Tuesday approved an ...

Paphos police arrested a 33-year-old suspect in an ongoing case of burglary of a mobile phone store in Paphos. The man, a former employee of the store, had allegedly stolen ...

The trial of three of the four suspects arrested in connection with an alleged attempted murder in the Larnaca village of Kornos will begin on March 12. The trio, all males ...

Two men, aged 27 years old and 19 years old, appeared in court on Monday after having been arrested for allegedly attacking a footballer in the car park of a football ground ...

An appeals court has ordered the release of two persons accused of aiding and abetting Swedish fugitive Hans Jonny Uven in his escape, after deeming that the two are not ...

Limassol police arrested a 39 and 45-year-old under suspicion of breaking into a warehouse and stealing tools from the Turkish Cypriot property management service on Sunday night. The suspects were stopped ...

A Limassol man was cheated out of €430,000 in a cryptocurrency scam, police said on Monday. Police said the scammers pretended to represent a reliable investment platform and had promised profits ...

Larnaca police were continuing investigations on Monday after five people were arrested and subsequently remanded for smuggling 10,500 boxes of cigarettes, as well as other offences. Police said the five suspects, ...