War of words over EU report findings
The Audit service and the Attorney General engaged in a war of words on Monday after the latter accused the former of lying about a...
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AG appeals lenient sentence for road crash that caused three deaths
Attorney-general Giorgos Savvides on Friday filed an appeal in connection with a sentence imposed for a triple fatal road traffic accident in May 2017 in...
Auditor-general loses name change fight for public officials
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled against a petition filed before it by auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides regarding the nomenclature used for the titles of certain...
Nicolaou’s family take action against ‘indifferent’ state
Family members of national guardsman Thanasis Nicolaou, whose lifeless body was found under a bridge in Alassa back in 2005, have instructed their lawyers to...
Prisons director quits after AG decision not to prosecute official
Anna Aristotelous and assistant Athena Demetriou on Wednesday evening announced their departure from their posts at the central prisons following the Attorney-General’s (AG) decision earlier...
Attorney-general says no evidence of corruption against Katsounotos
There has been no evidence to support corruption claims against the drug squad chief Michalis Katsounotos, after he was accused of colluding with a convict...
Bank early retirement beneficiaries also seeking unemployment benefit
Some 1,000 former bank employees who opted for early retirement are waiting for the attorney-general to rule on whether they’re also entitled to unemployment benefit,...
Relatives of Thanasis keep up the pressure on AG with new protest
Relatives and friends of Thanasis Nicolaou, the former guardsman who was found dead in mysterious circumstances under a bridge in Alassa, Limassol, in 2005, will...
Situation at Nicosia prison, ‘uncontrolled and dangerous’ AG says (Updated)
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...
AG’s office appeals court decision to acquit nine suspects in passports case
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...
