Crime

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 ...

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 ...