Crime

Paphos police proceeded to arrest a person for a case of arson set in the early hours of Tuesday in a vehicle parked in a garage in the industrial area ...

Two men aged 53 were remanded on Wednesday for committing car arson in Paphos. Police and fire fighters in Paphos attributed a fire that broke out in a vehicle owned by ...

Police on Tuesday arrested a 33-year-old man for an investigated case of illegal stay in the Republic and working without a permit. According to police, the man was allegedly in ...

A 60-year-old Limassol resident has lost €55,000 in an online scam, police said on Tuesday. According to the police report, the man made a complaint to Limassol CID that between 2020 and 2021, ...

Larnaca district court on Tuesday handed a seven-year prison sentence to a 30-year-old man found guilty of child sexual abuse. A police report said that “according to the evidence gathered ...

Police on Tuesday are investigating a fire which broke out in a car the early hours of Tuesday in Paphos. According to police, at 3.30am officers received the information about ...

Three Cyprus-based companies have been included in the latest round of sanctions imposed by the United States’ government, due to their links to Islamist military group al-Shabaab. The companies, named ...

A private investigator appeared in court on Monday, charged with “stalking” the person he was investigating. In court in northern Nicosia, police officer Yilmaz Sevdali said the investigator had received 90,000...

A man was punched in the face in the early hours of Monday morning after driving with headlights which were “too bright”. The man, aged 33, had been driving on the ...

Attention turned to a sitting ‘MP’ on Monday as the scandal engulfing the north’s education sector regarding “fake diplomas” rumbled on. The ‘MP’ in question is ruling coalition party ...

A 49-year-old Greek Cypriot woman was attacked at knifepoint in her own home in Lakatamia by former boyfriend on Monday morning. The 46-year-old Greek Cypriot man beat her and fled ...

A 38-year-old man and a 27-year-old woman appeared before the Paphos district court on Monday following their arrest on Sunday, when police found a large quantity of valuables, jewellery, electrical ...

A bomb exploded in a barbershop in Nicosia on Sunday evening causing extensive damage to the property. Police spokesman Christos Andreou confirmed on Monday that the explosion resulted from an ...

Five people were arrested in Paphos to facilitate investigations into a case of suspected illegal stay in the Republic in a coordinated operation on Sunday in the village of Tremithousa. ...

Two persons were arrested on Friday for stealing cigarettes from a store in the Paphos district. The theft concerns a kiosk in Paphos, from which a large number of cigarette ...

A 27-year-old man was arrested on Friday as a second suspect in connection with the theft of 100kgs of copper last month. The man is expected to be brought before ...

Limassol police found over 4.5 kilos of duty-free tobacco and boxes of cigarettes at a local mini market. The investigation was carried out following information that the owner of the store ...

The trial of the 32-year-old man who attempted to kill a woman by dousing her with gasoline will start next month, police announced on Friday. The attempted murder took place ...

A man who stole almost 90,000TL from his workplace and spent it all at a casino was sentenced to two years in prison on Friday. The man, who worked for ...

A 61-year-old man received a fine after attempting to smuggle 143 kilogrammes of red meat from the Republic to the north. The meat, which was a combination of lamb and beef, ...

A 25-year-old man was sentenced to four years in prison on Friday after being convicted of possessing cannabis with the intent to supply. The man had been arrested after a ...

The attorney-general is expected to make a decision regarding the fate of the 82-year-old grandfather who was jailed on Wednesday for shooting a cable thief. The man was sentenced to ...

Yeroskipou municipality said on Friday it will increase security measures at the municipal cemetery following a recent spate of burglaries. The municipality said it has strengthened the cemetery fencing and ...

Police arrested a 29-year-old man in Paphos, after he was found with a knife and burglary tool, authorities said on Friday. The man was arrested on Thursday evening, after a ...