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The justice ministry needs to develop a reliable internal audit system for receipts and payments, the Audit Office said in a report released Tuesday. The dossier covered the justice ministry’...

Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides on Wednesday described a planned separation of his powers set out by President Nikos Christodoulides as “legally impossible”. In a post on X, he said the Audit ...

Although the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (CyTA) remains a profitable business concern, there is also an internal effort to “embellish” its image and to conceal serious problems, found a report released ...

In a report released Tuesday, the auditor-general’s office again raised the matter of the simultaneous payment of salaries and pensions to currently serving state officials, calling on the Treasury ...

The attorney-general’s office irregularly authorised an out-of-court settlement with a company that saddled the Cypriot taxpayer with €700,000, while separately failing to pay VAT for services rendered to it by ...

A draft bill to modernise the legal service and the audit office will be brought in front of the legislature within the year, Government Spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Friday. ...

The audit office on Friday hit out on the issue of multiple pensions for state officials, saying the attorney-general (AG) did not have the power to unilaterally declare something constitutional ...

The audit office said on Friday it was going to report Cyprus’ long-delayed project for the creation of a liquefied natural gas arrival terminal at Vasiliko to the European Prosecutor’...

The treasury has referred the issue of multiple state pensions to the attorney-general for legal consultation, Cyprus’ accountant-general Andreas Antoniades said on Thursday. His statements came days after his office ...

The ongoing clashes between Attorney General George Savvides and Auditor General Odysseas Michaelides will be discussed at the parliamentary institutions committee, where two of the country’s top officials will ...

The tender procedure for a €34 million of software the accountant general’s office wanted to roll out appears to have failed to adhere to regulations, an auditor-general’s report published ...

Anyone seeking to initiate proceedings against the auditor-general in retaliation for complaints sent to the anti-corruption authority is committing a criminal offence, the service announced on Saturday. On Friday, a ...

The anti-corruption authority will publish findings regarding conflicts of interest within the legal service, it was revealed on Thursday. The allegations against the legal service include a slew of complaints, ...

The current legislative framework does not ensure the financial independence of the audit service, which is being stymied by the executive branch, it said yesterday in its annual report. The ...

The auditor-general’s office said on Tuesday it does not yet have access to the administrative investigation into road works within the Akamas national forest park, and therefore is unable ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Saturday denied allegations the government has embarked on an “orchestrated effort” to undermine the audit service. He was commenting after the audit service had earlier published ...

One newspaper claimed that the audit office’s report about the earnings of President Nikos Christodoulides, while he was serving as acting government spokesman, between 2014 and early 2018, had ‘detonated a ...

Relations between the government and the audit service are not in crisis, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Friday. Letymbiotis’ comments come after a report by the service on Thursday ...

President Nikos Christodoulides should return to the state over €18,000 he should not have received in paid leave, and come clean as to how much of the almost €40,000 he used in ...

The idea that the police, at the expense of taxpayers’ money, is under obligation to undertake the parental care of the president’s children is “a warped view”, the audit ...

Children’s Rights Commissioner Despo Michaelidou called for the president’s children to be left out of public discourse on Friday, as the debate between the audit service, police, and ...

By Jonathan Shkurko and Nikolaos Prakas The audit service and the presidential palace were sparring again on Thursday, after the former released special report saying use of service vehicles to ...

The audit office on Friday said it had received the updated bills from parliament regarding changes to regulations on public officials receiving multiple pensions. In their proposal submitted at the ...

The audit office’s latest remarks on the roadworks in Akamas confirm the concerns raised by environmentalists, the federation of environmental organisations (Opok) and the Cyprus Environmental Movement and said ...