Syllouris passport probe goes to AG
Police have completed an investigation into former House president Demetris Syllouris and former Akel MP Christakis Giovanis who had been implicated in a scandal last...
Citizenship by investment programme
President apologises over passport scheme failings (Updated)
President Nicos Anastasiades apologised Friday for the administration’s mistakes in managing the island’s citizenship by investment programme, which led to a political crisis that he...
AG files first criminal case in passport scandal
The state Legal Service said on Friday it has filed the first case relating to Cyprus’ controversial citizenship by investment programme to at Larnaca district...
Report highlights building violations by ex-MP linked to passport scheme
The audit service said Thursday state and local authorities had violated national and EU laws in allowing the construction of a huge project linked to...
CySEC to check businesses with links to passports
The anti-money laundering unit of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) will carry out checks among companies it supervises that have business links with...
Cyprus among top EU countries granting citizenship
Cyprus granted citizenship to 2,900 people in 2019, the European statistical service said on Monday, as 706,400 people in total obtained an EU passport, a...
Opposition unimpressed with president’s account of Seychelles trips
Opposition MPs on Thursday accused President Nicos Anastasiades of playing ‘hide and seek’ over his private trips to the Seychelles using aircraft operated by a...
President slams ‘orchestrated smear’ amid furore over journalist’s claims
President Nicos Anastasiades on Thursday called on newspaper director and journalist Andreas Paraschos to substantiate a report that he made €300m from the citizenship by...
Growing signs president and audit chief are on an intractable collision course
Relations between the government and auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides are deteriorating, President Nicos Anastasiades has said, accusing the official of allowing himself to be ‘weaponised’ by...
Swords drawn in rift between auditor-general and government
The government on Monday took the gloves off in its ongoing tussle with auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides, accusing him and others of seeking to ‘kill’ major...
