Crime

Police in northern Nicosia arrested three people on Thursday morning after a large fire broke out on the premises of a banner company on Wednesday evening. The trio were arrested ...

A 28-year-old man from Paphos was arrested on suspicion of having stolen a handbag on Wednesday night. Paphos police’s assistant operations director Michalis Nikolaou said a 30-year-old woman had ...

Police in the Famagusta district arrested a 31-year-old man on suspicion of stealing around 100 kilograms of copper on Wednesday night. According to Famagusta police department spokesman Steve Theodoulou, a man ...

A police car chase on Wednesday at Episkopi village ended with an accident on the road in Limassol. Officers tried to pull over a rental car, with three young individuals. ...

A case involving allegations of money laundering activities against a 31-year-old Ukrainian woman who is accused of transferring millions of euros to Cyprus in recent months is expected to be ...

Police in Paphos arrested a 29-year-old man on Tuesday after seizing large quantities of fireworks, cannabis and smuggled tobacco. A total of 188 fireworks, 11 grammes of cannabis, 6106 packs of cigarettes, 94 boxes ...

An 82-year-old grandfather was jailed on Wednesday for shooting a man who was attempting to steal electricity cables from his house last June. He was sentenced at the Limassol criminal ...

The 31-year-old Ukrainian woman suspected of money laundering is not cooperating with authorities, police spokesman Christos Andreou said on Tuesday. She is currently a serving a five-day remand order, which ...

A 27-year-old man was remanded for three days on Tuesday in connection with the fracas at Kings Avenue Mall in Paphos on Saturday, bringing to nine the total number of ...

Any declaration of cash worth €100,000 or more is referred to the police for their own assessment, the customs office specified on Tuesday. The announcement comes as police are investigating what ...

A 32-year-old man was remanded for seven days in Limassol on Tuesday in connection with seven kilos of cannabis that were discovered last week. This is the third arrest after ...

A high-ranking civil servant in the north was arrested on Monday night as part of the police’s investigations into a mass brawl which took place in Nicosia’s old ...

Police on Monday announced the arrest of a 30-year-old man in connection with an attempted murder which had taken place in March last year. The man was arrested after having ...

The Greek Cypriot arrested in the north for sexually assaulting a male hitchhiker appeared in court in the north for the second time on Monday. The man, aged 69, reportedly sexually ...

Organised crime has grown to a ‘worrying’ scale, and all elements of society must come together to contain it, speakers said at a workshop held on Monday. The remarks came ...

Cyprus’ anti-money laundering unit (Mokas) may be roped in to investigate the case of the Ukrainian woman who was remanded after reporting a €420,000 robbery. Police now fear there may be ...

The Paphos district court on Monday issued four-day detention orders today against a total of seven individuals apprehended by the police in the early hours of Sunday after a large ...

The Paphos District Court on Sunday issued four-day remand orders against two people for illegal possession of duty-free goods. According to assistant police chief Michalis Nikolaou, the two individuals, aged 26 ...

A 32-year-old man appeared in court on Sunday accused of causing actual bodily harm and “using a weapon to incite terror” in Xylotymbou. He is being investigated for a total ...

Seven men, some chunks of concrete, and wooden bats were found by police in a car in Paphos in the early hours of the morning. Police stopped the car at ...

The 31-year-old woman who reported she had been robbed of €420,000 in cash on Friday was arrested for money laundering afterwards, it emerged on Saturday. The woman, who is believed to ...

Three men from Paphos, aged 36, 37 and 40, were arrested on Friday night in connection with a spate of burglaries which have hit the town in recent weeks. Paphos police director Nikos ...

A 69-year-old woman suffered serious head injuries after being run over by an underage driver in Limassol on Friday evening. The woman was crossing a road at a pelican crossing ...

Attorney-General George Savvides on Friday denied he had re-opened the case of Andreas Loizou’s death as a result of public pressure. Instead, he said it was because Loizou’s ...