Crime

A criminal complaint for sexual harassment was filed against the head of the beleaguered Osiou Avakoum monastery, it emerged on Tuesday. The complaint was filed by a former employee, who ...

Investigations into football refereeing in Cyprus have revealed that as many as seven games may have been unduly manipulated over five years, it emerged on Tuesday. The Sports ethics committee ...

Authorities in Paphos are conducting investigations after gunshots were fired at a law office on Tuesday morning. Preliminary examinations conducted at the scene revealed that the shots from a shotgun ...

A man accused of carrying out a racially motivated assault was charged in writing at the Paphos District Court and released pending summons on Tuesday. Police on Monday arrested the 44...

Police on Tuesday determined that the fire which broke out in several vehicles in ​​Geroskipou completely destroying two of them and extensively damaging the third, was an act of arson. ...

Police on Monday arrested two persons for a case residential burglary and theft, committed on October 15, last year. According to a statement from the police the arrests concern a 37-year-old ...

An underage driver with two underage passengers was stopped in Paphos, police spokesman Michalis Nikolaou said on Sunday. A 16-year-old was reported after the vehicle he was driving was stopped ...

Sex, money laundering and bogus miracles, the scandal at a small monastery has it all The weird goings-on at the relatively obscure monastery Osiou Avakoum that were first reported 10 days ...

Three people have been arrested in Limassol after a fight caused damages to an apartment building in the Omonia area, police said on Sunday. Two other people are wanted in ...

A 25-year-old prisoner in the north made an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to escape on Saturday. The man, a 25-year-old Pakistani national, was being housed in the north’s old prison ...

Police in Limassol issued arrest warrants on Saturday against four people who allegedly vandalised a construction site and attacked construction workers. They said the incident occurred at around 8pm on ...

A 29-year-old man from the Paphos district was remanded in custody for six days on Saturday after having set fire to a car on Friday evening. The car was parked ...

Two more young men have been remanded as suspects for people smuggling close to 500 migrants, the Famagusta District Court said on Friday. For the case surrounding the arrival of six ...

Police at Paphos airport arrested a total of three people who were found to be in possession of forged passports on Thursday. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency (CNA) on ...

Police in Limassol announced on Friday they had arrested two people on Thursday for suspected money laundering. Both were remanded in custody for seven days on Friday. One, aged 41, is ...

A 40-year-old man was remanded in custody for seven days on Friday after having been arrested for possession of 7.5 kilograms of cannabis the previous night. The man had been arrested ...

The political pressure over the ongoing monk scandal has escalated, with the attorney-general’s (AG) office appointing two investigators on Thursday to examine any criminal offences related to the case. ...

All four men who are suspected of killing Thanasis Kalogeropoulos pleaded not guilty to all charges on Thursday. The four, aged 44, 41, 22, and 21 years old, were brought before the Limassol criminal ...

Police arrested a 40-year-old man in Limassol, found in possession of stolen jewellery, authorities said on Thursday. According to police, after receiving a court ordered an arrest warrant, officers conducted ...

A 42-year-old man was apprehended this morning on a warrant and remanded in custody as part of an ongoing investigation to a bomb that exploded in a barbershop in Nicosia ...

Larnaca district court remanded a 26-year-old man for eight days on Wednesday following the discovery of a suitcase containing 17kgs of cannabis at Larnaca airport. During the investigation of the ...

A 38-year-old man and a 28-year-old woman arrested on Sunday in Paphos are believed to have been involved in a string of burglaries, police said on Wednesday. Paphos police’s ...

Two people aged 33 and 27 were remanded for eight days on Wednesday after they were arrested to facilitate police investigations into a case involving the attempted illegal entry of a total ...

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 ...