Paphos mayor charges MPs sitting on bill to blacklist bribers
A bill which could blacklist companies guilty of misconduct and bribes has been sitting in a parliamentary committee accumulating dust and has not moved forward,...
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Former Paphos sewerage chief denies leading bribery ring (Updated)
By Angelos Anastasiou Former Paphos Sewerage Board (SAPA) director Eftichios Malekkides denied on Monday that he had set up and led the ring of public...
Japan’s economy minister resigns over money scandal, denies bribery
By Stanley White and Leika Kihara Japanese Economy Minister Akira Amari resigned abruptly on Thursday to take responsibility for a political funding scandal that has...
Ex-U.N. General Assembly president, 5 others charged in U.S. in bribe scheme
By Nate Raymond and Joseph Ax U.S. authorities charged a former president of the United Nations General Assembly, a billionaire Macau real estate developer and...
Attempts being made to recover bribery pay offs
By George Psyllides Authorities are trying to recover several millions of euros paid to contractors involved in the construction of the Paphos sewerage system, the...
Ex-ports chief could face bribery charges
By Angelos Anastasiou FORMER Cyprus Ports Authority head Yiannakis Kokkinos, who last October had been alleged to have repeatedly handed shoeboxes full of cash to...
Bribery began with a leg of smoked ham
By Hermes Solomon It is not the troika’s job to eliminate corruption in Cyprus but to ensure that the republic pay high interest on ECB...
Auditor General now eyes Nicosia sewage board
By Constantinos Psillides AUDITOR General Odysseas Michaelides has his sights set on the Nicosia Sewage Board, telling CyBC radio that he had already requested their...
China fines British drugmaker GSK $489 mln, jails ex-China head
China has fined British pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline Plc 3 billion yuan ($488.8 million) for paying out bribes in what is a record penalty for China,...
Ghana deny match-rigging report, file complaint
By Mark Gleeson Ghana’s Football Association (GFA) denied British media reports on Monday that it had agreed to rig international matches and asked Ghanaian police...
Police officer faces bribery charges
A police officer from the Paphos district was arrested on Wednesday under suspicion of bribery, according to the police report. The police officer was reported...
Erdogan purges police, facing biggest threat of his rule (updated)
Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan pressed a widening purge of the police command on Friday, tackling the biggest challenge of his rule from what he describes...
