#Court case

The two Avakoum monks, Nektarios and Porphyrios, have pleaded not guilty to the 24 charges brought against them including misappropriation and theft of church funds before Nicosia court on Wednesday. The ...

The high-profile trial into Cyprus’ controversial citizenship-by-investment programme resumed on Monday with testimony from two key witnesses before the permanent criminal court in Nicosia. The case centres on allegations of ...

An officer present at the arrest of the German ‘real estate agent’ currently on trial for allegedly usurping Greek Cypriot properties in the north was heard as a witness before ...

The Nicosia criminal court on Tuesday morning postponed proceedings in the financial case involving the monastery of Saint Avakoum, after defence lawyers argued that key evidence had not been handed ...

The trial of Yiannakis Yiannaki, former volunteer commissioner, continued on Wednesday in Nicosia with a key issue raised being the defence’s objection to two new witnesses and recent comments ...

Seven individuals are now the focus of legal action in the long-running murder case of Thanasis Nicolaou, as the victim’s family presses ahead with private criminal prosecutions over what ...

The 34-year-old man appeared before the Larnaca Criminal Court on Wednesday for kidnapping a woman, causing malicious damage and assaulting a police officer. His detention order was requested, and he ...

The Nicosia criminal court has rescheduled the “trial within a trial” procedure of the German real estate agent accused of usurping Greek Cypriot properties in the north to May 2 after ...

Two men, aged 35 years old and 31 years old, were on Monday released on bail following their latest court hearing into their parts in the violent evictions which occurred in the ...

Part of the document giving consent to inspect a German real estate agent’s luggage had been forged, her defence lawyer told the court on Friday, accusing police of attempting ...

A Hungarian woman on Wednesday admitted to illegally advertising Greek Cypriot-owned properties for sale in northern Cyprus, marking the first guilty plea in the high-profile case. The admission was made ...

Eight officials from the Apoel sports club pleaded guilty on Wednesday in a high-profile case involving unpaid social security contributions totalling €2.3 million. The case, which centres on financial irregularities between 2020 ...

Former volunteer commissioner Yiannakis Yiannaki was remanded in custody until his new court hearing that was rescheduled to April 2 after he claimed sickness and did not appear in court on ...

The trial of a 49-year-old German woman who stands accused of having sold Greek Cypriot property in the north began on Wednesday, nine months after her initial arrest. The Nicosia ...

The appeal court has unanimously rejected the attorney-general’s appeal against the acquittal of ten defendants in the high-profile cooperative bank case, it was reported on Wednesday. The ruling confirms ...

Metadata from photographs and videos taken on former Akel MP Christakis Giovanis’ mobile phone was the focus in Monday’s hearing of the court case regarding the three people facing ...

Criminal prosecutions are currently underway for debts owed by football clubs to the social insurance fund, Minister of Labour Yiannis Panayiotou said on Wednesday. Speaking after a cabinet meeting on ...

A 48-year-old man was on Tuesday found guilty in the north of having fatally stabbed 40-year-old Vietnamese national Dam Thi Hop 33 times. Later on Tuesday afternoon, he was sentenced to 39 ...

Paphos criminal court set the next hearing in the case of escaped convict Doros Theofanous for May 14. The two men, who became friends serving their sentences in prison, appeared before ...

Nicosia criminal court on Monday agreed to hear by videoconference the testimony of a key prosecution witness in the ongoing trial relating to Cyprus’ now-defunct citizenship-by-investment programme. In the case ...

Monday’s court hearing regarding the three people facing criminal charges over a report by news company Al Jazeera into the alleged illegal naturalisations of people as citizens of the ...

A Nicosia football club will be facing trial this week over the non-payment of €2.3 million in social insurance contributions, it emerged on Monday. It is apparently the first such trial ...

Former volunteer commissioner Yiannakis Yiannaki appeared in Nicosia District Court on Wednesday with a new lawyer, having failed to find one since Yiannis Polychronis walked out on November 28 following a ...

The Nicosia court on Wednesday postponed until March next year, the case brought against a German real estate agent charged on 44 counts related to the usurpation of Greek Cypriot property ...