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....
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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...
