#corruption

The absence of mechanisms to fight corruption has downgraded our country By Achilleas Demetriades Corruption in Cyprus in 2022 has filtered through most aspects of our society. First we need to ...

Suspended sentence for public employee found guilty in bribery case A former ministry of interior engineer has avoided jail for the second time after the Supreme Court on Wednesday imposed ...

An overwhelming majority of people in the north of the island believe that corruption there has increased over the past year, while a staggering 90 per cent of those questioned do ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the appeal made by waste management company Helector relating to a case dating back to 2016 that saw a former Larnaca mayor, three state officials ...

The overwhelming perception in Cyprus is that corruption is widespread, with political parties and the health care system seen as particularly vulnerable to abusing their power, according to a Eurobarometer ...

Cyprus has satisfactorily implemented nine of 16 recommendations made by the Council of Europe’s anti-corruption body GRECO and partly implemented six, GRECO said on Friday. One recommendation has still not ...

The fight against corruption requires effective monitoring by the supervisory authorities, parliaments and the media, as well as cooperation between them, Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides said on Saturday. He was speaking ...

The role of national parliaments in preventing and fighting corruption was discussed on Friday during an international conference organised in Nicosia by the House of Representatives with the support of ...

Tackling corruption and promoting transparency and accountability were the focus of a meeting between President Nicos Anastasiades and Margaret Cederfelt, the President of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in ...

Speedy trials and strict penalties for cases of corruption in sports are needed as deterrents, according to deputy attorney-general Savvas Angelides. His comments came at a conference organised as part ...

The state of the wilderness of a country, is a reflection of its citizens’ moral compass By Constantinos Antoniou An alternative and rather more targeted version of Mahatma Gandhi’s ...

The government on Friday welcomed the passing of a law establishing an anti-corruption authority, saying the effort to combat the phenomenon on all levels “must and will continue”. The law ...

Cyprus has slipped further in the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) compiled by Transparency International, a development which a local NGO called concerning. In 2021, the island ranked 52 among 180 countries, falling from 42...

Government inefficiency, corruption and bad policies based on ignoring the huge amount of debt will come back to bite us By Les Manison Research articles contend that the quality of ...

Justice Minister Stephie Dracou on Thursday pointed to progress in parliament on draft anti-corruption bills to argue that slogans were turning into action. She was speaking to mark International Anti-corruption ...

Citing Cyprus’ slide in World Bank metrics on the public’s perception on control of corruption, Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides told MPs on Friday that watchdog bodies such as his should ...

The Cyprus Environmental Movement announced on Thursday it was calling off a protest set for Saturday and urged all those who would have attended to instead back Akel’s rally ...

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) is in the process of working through another mountain of documents showing how the rich and powerful use the global financial system to ...

The Czech prime minister, the king of Jordan and the chairman of a well-known Indian conglomerate were among global figures denying wrongdoing on Monday after the leak of what major ...

Cyprus has slipped on all governance indicators compiled by the World Bank, particularly when it comes to the rule of law metric. The World Bank has just published its 2020 data ...

After the golden passports exposé there was an outcry against corruption. Citizens held demonstrations, newspapers wrote fiery editorials against sleaze and opposition parties demanded a clean-up. Corruption became the main ...

By Achilleas Demetriades The citizens of Cyprus are living in uncertainty. They bear witness to a governance that has failed them, and which excels in improvisation, in scandals and in ...

A short video released on Friday by a local artist who was injured by a police water cannon during an anti-corruption protest aims to break the silence on the “rotten” ...

Dr Louisa Borg Haviaras According to a new report by Transparency International nearly two-thirds of EU residents believe corruption is a problem in their respective countries. The report, ‘Citizens’ Views ...