FinMin assures government will not reinstate passports scheme
Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides has assured the government will not reinstate the Cyprus Investment Scheme either in the same or similar form to the one...
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Auditor general testifies before citizenship committee for four hours
Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides on Tuesday testified before the investigative committee on citizenships by investment. During the four-hour-long procedure, Michaelides was asked about his own probe...
Audit office says number of granted citizenships did not meet criteria (Updated)
A substantial number of citizenships granted through the island’s investment programme did not meet the criteria, suggesting an abuse of power by government officials, an...
Foreign interest in Cyprus remains high despite scrapping of passports programme
Foreign investors’ interest in Cyprus remains robust despite the scrapping of the Citizenship-by-Investment (CBI) programme, MPs were assured on Tuesday. Legislators were discussing the potential...
Petrides testifies for two hours to panel probing citizenship programme
Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides testified for two hours and 40 minutes on Tuesday before a panel probing the island’s citizenship by investment programme, which was...
Syllouris says rights violated by Al Jazeera video
Former House President Demetris Syllouris has reportedly written to the chief of police, arguing that his rights were violated by the Al Jazeera network, which...
AG and audit boss ‘agree to disagree’, latter backs off passport files request
Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides has reluctantly agreed to stop demanding government files concerning a probe his office was carrying out on a number of naturalisations while...
Nouris testifies in front of committee looking into passports
Interior Minister Nicos Nouris on Tuesday gave a sworn testimony to the investigative committee on citizenships by investment after being summoned to clarify some points...
Passports probe delayed by hiring wrangle
A drive to recruit the services of 40 professionals to assist the probe into the citizenship by investment programme has been cancelled some 13 days...
Interior ministry has 1,413 citizenship applications pending
The interior ministry said Tuesday it had before it 1,413 pending applications as part of the controversial citizenship by investment programme that the government was...
