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,...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
Results of passport probe to be issued piecemeal
Attorney-general Giorgos Savvides told MPs on Monday he did not expect an investigative committee looking into the island’s citizenship by investment programme to complete the...
Last-minute citizenship applications number 416 ministry says
The interior ministry said on Friday it had received 416 citizenship applications between October 13, when the cabinet decided to scrap the programme, and November...
There will be no cover-up in passport probe, government pledges
Government spokesman Kyriacos Koushos said on Monday nothing would be covered up during an investigation into the island’s citizenship by investment programme, as he sought...
Discussion on passports a political show says finance minister
Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides on Monday dismissed as ”a political show” a discussion in parliament about the citizenship-by-investment programme, after the auditor-general rattled off what...
MPs discuss tougher golden visa regulations
After a long delay the government on Monday tabled to parliament the regulations codifying procedures for the citizenship-by-investment programme, which has come under fire from...
Coronavirus: Russian businessman donates €1m for ICU equipment
A Russian businessman has donated €1m for the procurement of patient monitors to be used by the health services in the fight against the coronavirus....
Government denies president used jet for private trip in 2015
The government on Saturday said that President Nicos Anastasiades did not use the jet of a Saudi businessman who acquired a Cypriot passport for a...
Akel accuses government of whitewash over passports
The administration and main opposition Akel again sparred on Tuesday over the citizenship-by-investment scheme after it emerged a day earlier that the 26 passports that...
MPs say cabinet no longer has final say over awarding citizenship
Lawmakers said on Monday the cabinet is no longer allowed to grant Cypriot citizenship to foreign nationals under the citizenship-via-investment scheme, and even threatened legal...
Citizenship ‘should not have been granted’ to owner of Saudi jet used by president (updated)
The citizenship application filed by the Saudi owner of jet used by President Nicos Anastasiades on various trips should have been rejected because it did...
Property prices rise despite fall in citizenship applications
Prices of residential properties continued to climb during the second quarter of 2019, despite a dip in demand for high-end properties from foreign buyers as...
Names of those on passports to be revoked made public
Reports on Wednesday confirmed Malaysian Jho Taek Low and eight Cambodians closely connected to the country’s authoritarian regime are among the holders of the 26...
Russian banker, wanted by Moscow, was given Cyprus passport
A former Russian banker currently wanted by Moscow in connection with the embezzlement of $1.6 billion had secured a Cypriot passport through the island’s citizenship-for-investment...
Malaysia says fugitive businessman is still trying to invest in Cyprus (Updated)
Malaysian businessman Jho Taek Low, who acquired a Cypriot citizenship four years ago, is still trying to buy purchase properties in Cyprus under another name,...
Cyprus to strip 26 citizenships after uproar over passports (Updated)
The cabinet said on Wednesday it would revoke 26 citizenships granted through the citizenship-by-investment programme up to 2018, before stricter criteria were introduced. The decision...