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...
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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...
President wants passport of Malaysian businessman revoked
Authorities should revoke the passport issued in September 2015 to a Malaysian businessman, now wanted by authorities in his country and elsewhere, President Nicos Anastasiades...
Akel presses president over Saudi link
The government was again caught on the back foot on Monday over its citizenship-by-investment scheme amid reports that a Saudi sheikh, whose company owns a...
Passports probe being expanded, president’s law firm handled 41 cases from 4,000 (Updated)
By Elias Hazou and George Psyllides THE government said on Thursday an additional investigation will be carried out by the interior minister into other cases...
State oversight board pulls back from discussing sale of passports to Cambodian officials (Updated, corrected)
State treasurer Rea Georgiou told the Cyprus Mail on Monday that a public oversight body she chairs would not after all be looking into recent...
Data protection fears raised over push to name ‘golden visa’ applicants
Data protection commissioner Irini Loizidou Nicolaidou said on Monday she is opposed to a blanket publication of the names of foreign nationals applying for naturalisation...
€3m from citizenship-by-investment scheme expected by end of year
The Land Development Corporation (KOAG) said Tuesday it expects to generate some €3m in funds by the end of the year from the government’s citizenship-by-investment...
