Sarikas pleads not guilty in SAPA scandal (Updated)
By Angelos Anastasiou EDEK MP Fidias Sarikas and AKEL municipal councillor Yiorgos Shailis pleaded not guilty on Tuesday, after their request to be charged and...
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Iraqi family detained with fake EU IDs (Updated: 5-day remand)
An Iraqi family of four – parents with two adult children – were detained at Larnaca airport on Saturday afternoon for attempting to board a...
Remand for latest arrest in co-op scandal
Iordanis Kostekoglou, suspected of being implicated in the Ayia Fyla co-op dodgy loans scandal was remanded on Wednesday for eight days. His lawyer raised no...
Woman arrested in car ownership wrangle
A 47-year-old woman from Paphos, who had reported her car stolen, was arrested on Saturday for allegedly lying to the police about the theft. According...
Man on trial for fatal accident seeks travel permission
Attorney-general Costas Clerides on Tuesday received a request to allow a high ranking official from the European Space Agency (ESA), Julio Monreal, who is due...
Eight-day remand for shooting suspect
A 34-year-old man was remanded on Tuesday for eight days in connection with attempting to shoot another man, aged 52 in Limassol. According to police,...
Larnaca man remanded over possession of child pornography
A 41-year-old Larnaca man was remanded in custody for six days on Monday in connection with possession of child pornography, police said. The man, a...
New court to speed up justice should be operational by year’s end
By George Psyllides An administrative court expected to lighten the Supreme Court’s workload and help speed up dispensation of justice will be up and running...
Charge sheet on police officers filed at Paphos court
Charges against the two policemen who were caught on CCTV cameras brutally beating a 26-year-old man with a baton at the Polis Chrysochous police station...
Rowdy ex boyfriend held over for trial on assault charges
A man, aged 31, was in custody on Tuesday, held over for trial until September 1, in connection with allegations of domestic violence, illegal entry...
Jewel thieves referred for trial
Three men have been referred to trial before the Limassol Criminal Court in connection with the theft in Limassol of a briefcase containing jewellery and...
Mother charged with kidnapping her son
The 35-year-old woman from the UK who was arrested on Wednesday after being reported by her former partner for taking their eight-year-old child out of...
Remand for mother after child-kidnap allegation
A 35-year-old woman from the UK was remanded in custody for one day on Thursday for allegedly taking her eight-year old son out of the...
Four days remand in connection with arson attack
By George Psyllides A 27-year-old was on Thursday remanded in custody for four days by a Larnaca court in connection with an arson attack perpetrated...
Six day remand for suspected co-op embezzler
By Evie Andreou A 46-year-old employee of the Famagusta-Larnaca co-op bank was remanded on Thursday for six days in connection to the suspected embezzlement of...
Thirteen people jailed for trafficking and sexual exploitation
Thirteen people received sentences ranging from nine months to three years by the Limassol district court on Wednesday after being found guilty of human trafficking...
Court told of bungled attempt to rob elderly jewellery shop owner
By Angelos Anastasiou After extracting confessions from two of the three suspects arrested in connection with the theft of a 70-year-old jeweller’s briefcase, which contained...
Questions asked over protection of children ‘forced to beg’
By Andria Kades AUTHORITIES were slammed on Saturday for not acting quickly to protect two minor siblings allegedly forced to beg outside a supermarket for...
Remand for truck driver in fatal accident
A truck driver aged 53 who collided with a car on the Limassol to Paphos motorway was remanded on Friday for three days by Paphos district court....
No sign yet of extradition order from Russia
By Elias Hazou Cypriot authorities have yet to receive an official extradition request from Russia for Andrey Nekrasov, a journalist and political activist currently being...
