#Giorgos Savvides

Management of the Nicosia central prisons is “neither adequate nor effective”, the facility is rife with drugs and criminal activity including witness intimidation both inside and outside the prison, leading ...

The attorney-general’s office has appealed the decision to acquit nine suspects in a case relating to the controversial citizenship-by-investment programme who were cleared of all charges by the Larnaca ...

Trouble may be brewing over an amendment passed through parliament earlier this week, concerning state officials working in the private sector after their retirement, it emerged on Saturday. The regulation, ...

Four criminal investigators tasked with investigating claims of drug pushing and mobile phone use in the prisons turned their report into the attorney-general on Friday. According to a post on ...

The mother of national guardsman Thanasis Nicolaou, found dead under the Alassa bridge in 2005, has made a new appeal for authorities to bring those whose actions led to his death, ...

Lawyers for the prison director and her deputy said on Friday the system would continue to go against them even after a report into allegations and counter-allegations between the director ...

A report relating to allegations and counter-allegations between the central prisons director and the head of the Drugs Squad was handed over to the attorney-general on Thursday. The report was ...

Several independent presidential candidates on Wednesday jumped on the bandwagon to slam the government over the findings of the auditor office report on the citizenship by investment scheme, which was ...

The findings of the third investigation on the circumstances leading to the death of national guardsman Thanasis Nicolaou in 2005 will be handed to Attorney-general George Savvides by September 15, it emerged ...

Attorney-general Giorgos Savvides has chaired the first meeting of the team coordinating the investigation of corruption, where participants laid out a road map for the handling of such cases. The ...

Four individuals and three legal entities will face charges arising from Cyprus’ discredited citizenship by investment scheme, the attorney general’s office said on Friday, as it announced that a ...

By Andrea Charalambous Attorney-general Giorgos Savvides and his deputy Savvas Angelidis are travelling to Luxembourg next week to visit the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). During their ...

The Audit Office has petitioned the Supreme Court to rule on whether the government can unilaterally alter the nomenclature pertaining to state officials as these are prescribed in the constitution. ...

The attorney-general’s office has rejected claims made by Greek activist Ilias Gkionis that implicated Cyprus or Cypriot nationals in a prostitution ring and subsequently codified in relevant documents sent ...

At the instruction of the attorney-general, police have filed charges in two separate cases relating to the pandemic, including threatening doctors over Covid vaccines. In a statement on Thursday, the ...

The attorney-general’s office has stayed the prosecution of a former municipal councilor and one-time Disy candidate for MP who had been charged with rape. Back in April Andreas Ttaouxis ...

Attorney-general Giorgos Savvides was perfectly justified in expressing his disappointment over last month’s Supreme Court decision that retaining customer data for six months by telecommunications providers was illegal. “It ...

The attorney-general’s office on Tuesday said it had no comment on its decision a day earlier to drop all charges against three individuals in the case of the so-called ‘...

Attorney-general Giorgos Savvides on Friday brushed aside criticism that his office has done nothing in the wake of the Pandora Papers reveals, noting that criminal cases need to be based ...

The Law Office of the Republic is “assessing” the material made public through the Pandora Papers, and if it spots content meriting a criminal probe it will instruct the police ...

An inquiry has found nothing improper against the state treasurer in connection with a slaughterhouse that belongs to her husband which found itself in hot water last year on several ...

Anger at the decision of the attorney-general not to prosecute the 15 policemen over their apparent failure to investigate the disappearance of foreign women that were subsequently discovered to have been ...

A group of demonstrators on Wednesday gathered outside the offices of the legal service to protest against a decision by the attorney-general not to prosecute 15 police officers named in an ...

Attorney-general Giorgos Savvides has filed an appeal at the supreme court against a resolution passed by parliament calling on him and his deputy Savvas Angelides to recuse themselves from the ...