Crime

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, ...

A 38-year-old Nicosia resident was arrested for 17 cases of car theft and damage carried out in the capital and Larnaca, police said on Sunday. The suspect was spotted driving in ...

A 15-year-old was arrested at Limassol’s marina area on Saturday night after he was spotted boasting a gun to his friends, police said on Sunday. An off-duty police officer ...

The police on Saturday said they are investigating what they believe to be an attempted murder carried out in the Limassol district village of Souni the previous day. The incident ...

The police believe there was “malicious intent” behind a fire which broke out in a high school in Limassol shortly after midnight on Saturday. The fire broke out in a ...

A 23-year-old man from Nicosia was arrested in Larnaca for illegal drug possession on Thursday. Police were operating a patrol in Athinon avenue, when they stopped the 23-year-old driver. A ...

A 23-year-old from Britain was handed a 12-year prison sentence on Thursday for smuggling over 20kg of cannabis into Cyprus in December 2023. Larnaca criminal court heard that the young man ...

Police on Friday are investigating an overnight shooting in Limassol’s Ayios Andreas area, at an investment company’s offices. According to police, seven shots were fired by a motorcycle ...

A 47-year-old man was sentenced to eight years in prison by the Larnaca criminal court on Thursday after pleading guilty to multiple charges, including conspiracy to commit a felony, transportation ...

Police have identified a suspect who is now wanted in connection with a death threat made against President Nikos Christodoulides, the authority said on Wednesday in a post on social ...

Police have now arrested a total of five suspects as of Thursday for incidents of violence outside the Apollon stadium last month. The most recent arrest made was of a 32...

Serdal Gunduz, the secretary-general and 30-per-cent shareholder of Morphou’s Cyprus Health and Social Sciences University (KSTU), on Wednesday pointed the finger at ‘MPs’ from the north’s largest party ...