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Trial opens in triple murder case Cyprus

Trial opens in triple murder case

June 30th, 20161226 The trial of 31-year-old Christos Thoma accused of taking the lives of three people in a frenzied knife attack last November in the busy Anexartisias area of Limassol began Thursday. Thoma was brought to Limassol court under tight security, surrounded by heavily armed police, with body searches carried out on all who entered the...
Remand for scam artist promising jobs at Limassol port Cyprus

Remand for scam artist promising jobs at Limassol port

June 30th, 20161712 A 36-year-old woman from Nicosia was remanded on Thursday for four days after she was reported for allegedly taking money from unemployed people with the promise that she would secure them jobs at the Limassol port. Limassol police said they had so far secured four complaints against the woman. According to the Cyprus News Agency...
Iraqi-Kurd sentenced to life for murdering his mother in Dhekelia Cyprus

Iraqi-Kurd sentenced to life for murdering his mother in Dhekelia

June 27th, 20162202 A British bases court in Dhekelia on Monday handed down a life sentence to Amil Aziz, 22, an Iraqi of Kurdish origin for the murder of his mother, 43, in August 2015. Aziz will serve his sentence at Her Majesty's Prison Dhekelia and will be eligible, under British law, to apply for parole after the sixteen years set as a minimum by...
Hijacker pleads against extradition to Egypt Cyprus

Hijacker pleads against extradition to Egypt

June 23rd, 20161335 Seif Eldin Mustafa, the hijacker of an Egyptair plane that was diverted to Larnaca in late March, pleaded with a judge on Thursday to deny the Egyptian government’s request to have him extradited to his home country. Reading out a 20-page statement in Arabic, translated simultaneously in the courtroom, Mustafa said a decision to...
Hijacker made contradictory statements during asylum bid, court hears Cyprus

Hijacker made contradictory statements during asylum bid, court hears

June 22nd, 20161247 The Nicosia court examining Egypt’s extradition request for the hijacker of the Egyptair plane that was diverted to Larnaca in late March, heard Wednesday that he made contradictory statements in the interview part of his asylum bid. Administrative Officer Pantelis Kazantzis of the Asylum Service told the court that he had...
Larnaca man orchestrated murder of Moldovan woman, court hears Cyprus

Larnaca man orchestrated murder of Moldovan woman, court hears

June 21st, 20163194 Panayiotis Alexandrou, 26, from Aradippou, Larnaca, orchestrated the murder of a 36-year-old Moldovan woman, Daniela Rosca, last November, whom he believed to have been involved in the theft of €25,000 from his parents’ house after he ended their romantic affair, lead police investigator Giorgos Charalambous told the Larnaca District...
Erdogan loses appeal to obtain injunction against Springer CEO World

Erdogan loses appeal to obtain injunction against Springer CEO

June 21st, 20161279 A German court on Tuesday rejected an appeal by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan after he was denied an injunction to prevent the chief executive of Europe's largest newspaper publisher Axel Springer from repeating an insulting poem. In an open letter published in April, Mathias Doepfner expressed his support for German comedian Jan...
Egyptian hijacker’s wife tells court he was always in and out of prison featured

Egyptian hijacker’s wife tells court he was always in and out of prison

June 17th, 20161101 The Nicosia court heard Friday that the hijacker of the Egyptair plane that was diverted to Larnaca on March 29 was only out of prison for a total of six months during their nine-year marriage, according to his wife Marina Paraschou. Paraschou from Oroklini, said in her testimony that her ex husband, Seif Eldin Mustafa, 59, had told...
British tourist says she was raped twice in same night in Paphos, one man remanded Cyprus

British tourist says she was raped twice in same night in Paphos, one man remanded

June 12th, 20165396 A 25-year-old man was remanded in Paphos on Sunday after being arrested on suspicion of raping a 21-year-old British tourist on Saturday night. Police are also looking for a second person who allegedly raped the same woman later the same night. According to the woman's complaint, she was raped by the 25-year-old in the toilets of a...
Six years jail for cannabis haul Cyprus

Six years jail for cannabis haul

June 7th, 20161222 The Nicosia Criminal Court sentenced a man to six-years imprisonment on Tuesday in connection with a drug find last October. The 30-year-old Nicosia resident was found guilty of the illegal possession of drugs with intent to supply. He was arrested on October 16 in Nicosia last year after police, acting on a tip-off followed the...
Court of Appeal expected to rule on Monday in Hadjicostis murder case Cyprus

Court of Appeal expected to rule on Monday in Hadjicostis murder case

June 5th, 20161628 The Court of Appeal is on Monday expected to issue its decision on hearing the appeal of four people convicted in the murder of Sigma boss Andis Hadjicostis in January 2010. The appeals have been filed by the lawyers for lifers Elena Skordelli, a former Sigma presenter, her brother Tassos Krasopoulos, plus Gregoris Xenofontos and...
Cabaret runaways were ‘terrorised and frightened’ court hears featured

Cabaret runaways were ‘terrorised and frightened’ court hears

June 3rd, 20163604 CYPRUS’ top Human trafficking officer told a Nicosia court Thursday that young sexually exploited women were terrorised and afraid after running away from a cabaret where they were being sold. The first day of the civil case being brought by a Dominican Republic national against four men has taken since 2009 to be heard after...
Interim decision in BoC trial on June 14 Cyprus

Interim decision in BoC trial on June 14

June 2nd, 20161323 The Nicosia Criminal court will issue its interim ruling on the defence’s request for a Supreme Court referral of the legality of a Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) regulation, on which the market-manipulation charge in the trial of the Bank of Cyprus, as well as five of its former top officials, on June 14, it was...
Former cabaret worker sues in civil case, opening Thursday Cyprus

Former cabaret worker sues in civil case, opening Thursday

June 1st, 20161976 A woman from the Dominican Republic who appeared as witnesses in an unsuccessful sexual trafficking case brought against a cabaret owner and three others some six years ago has returned to Cyprus after registering a private prosecution against the men. Immediately following the acquittal of the group due to the court finding the...
Four-day remand for drugs suspect Cyprus

Four-day remand for drugs suspect

May 28th, 20161140 A 29-year-old man from Dromolaxia was remanded for four days on Saturday by the Larnaca District court, in connection with the illegal possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell. According to the police, drug squad members searched the 29-year-old’s home in Dromolaxia on Friday night. Carefully stashed inside the...
Limassol court issues first five debt relief orders, Business

Limassol court issues first five debt relief orders,

May 27th, 2016154 The Limassol district court issued five debt relief orders, the first out of a total of 40 cases filed last, following the modernisation of the insolvency legislation, the Cyprus News Agency reported on Friday, citing Giorgos Karotsakis, the head of the Insolvency Service. The five orders concern debt of up to €25,000, the Cyprus...
Seven-day remand for two brothers in Limassol shooting and stabbing incident Cyprus

Seven-day remand for two brothers in Limassol shooting and stabbing incident

May 27th, 20161588 By Philip Mark Two brothers were remanded for seven days by the Limassol district Court on Friday in connection with a shooting and stabbing incident that left one man in a critical condition in intensive care and two others injured. Lawyers for the defendants did not object to the remand order though the brothers deny all...
Larnaca municipal secretary remanded for eight days Cyprus

Larnaca municipal secretary remanded for eight days

May 26th, 20161823 The Larnaca District Court on Thursday remanded municipal secretary Lefteris Empedoclis for eight days to facilitate police investigations. The 55-year-old is suspected of being involved in bribery, the illegal acquisition of assets, corruption and money laundering. Empedoclis was arrested on Wednesday after Theodosis Chrysostomou, a...
Egyptian hijacker’s actions had nothing to do with his wife, court hears Cyprus

Egyptian hijacker’s actions had nothing to do with his wife, court hears

May 26th, 20162031 The hearing for the extradition of Seif Eldin Mustafa, the 59-year-old hijacker who forced an Egyptair domestic flight to land in Larnaca last March, to Egyptian authorities, will resume on June 1, the Nicosia district court ruled on Thursday. During Thursday’s hearing, the defendant’s lawyer cross-examined officer Vakis...
Tensions high at Larnaca murder hearing Cyprus

Tensions high at Larnaca murder hearing

May 26th, 20162471 Police clashed with relatives of murder victim Panagiotis Christodoulou, 38 on Thursday when they began attacking suspected killer Giorgos Xiourouppas after he walked into the Larnaca–Famagusta courtroom. Although Xiourouppas, 45 was supposed to answer the charges – a total of nine, which include premeditated murder and illegal...
Court says no to state acquisition for 16 landowners on Aglandjia Avenue Cyprus

Court says no to state acquisition for 16 landowners on Aglandjia Avenue

May 26th, 20161757 A Nicosia court has annulled a government order for private land acquisitions for 16 owners, residents of Aglandjia and Larnaca Avenues, as part a revamp of the road, it was announced on Wednesday. According to the lawyer for the landowners, Michalis Dilinos, who had filed the appeal against the acquisition, the decision means that...
Greens say they lost extra seat due to threshold change, seek legal advice Cyprus

Greens say they lost extra seat due to threshold change, seek legal advice

May 23rd, 20161490 The head of the Green Party-Citizens Cooperation Giorgos Perdikis said on Monday they were contemplating going to court to ask for a change of the electoral threshold because if the bar had not been raised the party would have had a third seat in parliament. Commenting on the percentage the Greens secured in the elections, 4.8 per...
Letters

No justice in this justice system

When will someone investigate the hundreds of backlogged and un-served police warrants stacking up in the police stations? What justice is there for those who have entered the court system, won their cases and come face to face the criminals still walking free? What is the process difference between criminal charge warrants vs minor...
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