Jho Low’s Cypriot passport revoked
Cabinet on Wednesday decided to revoke the Cypriot citizenship of Malaysian-born Jho Low, an internationally wanted fugitive.
Though the decision was taken last year, Low filed an appeal prompting an ...
AG plays down further golden passport trials
The attorney-general on Tuesday suggested the public should manage their expectations regarding new prosecutions in relation to the ‘golden passports’ affair, where to date just one case has been brought ...
EU official says Russian assets frozen in Cyprus “relatively low”
The European Commission is puzzled about the relatively low amount of frozen assets of Russian oligarchs in Cyprus, the European Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders said on Wednesday, a day ...
Government denies Al Jazeera claims over minister’s role in passport scheme
The government on Tuesday denied that a minister had flown to London on a mission to specifically assist a foreign national obtain a Cypriot passport, as alleged in a new ...
Audit service hands over to police results of citizenship probe
The audit service said on Monday it has put at the disposal of the police all the material it had gathered while probing certain cases linked to the citizenship by ...
Al Jazeera’s documentary on Cyprus passport scheme up for Bafta
The al Jazeera undercover documentary The Cyprus Papers that exposed some of the players involved in the island’s citizenship by investment scheme has been nominated for a Bafta award, ...
After a month’s break, passport inquiry resumes
The committee of inquiry investigating the now-defunct citizenship-by-investment (CBI) scheme will resume its hearings on Tuesday, following a break of about a month.
Next to testify will be Socrates Socratous, ...
Hasikos: no reason in 2016 to deny passport to Cambodian police chief’s wife
The government saw no reason to deny a Cypriot passport to the niece of Cambodia’s authoritarian leader and wife of the country’s deputy police chief back in 2016, former ...