Two people aged 22 and 28 have been arrested for trying to leave the country through Paphos airport under false pretences, police said on Wednesday.
On Tuesday a man with a Dutch ...
Four individuals and three legal entities will face charges arising from Cyprus’ discredited citizenship by investment scheme, the attorney general’s office said on Friday, as it announced that a ...
The police have handed over to the attorney-general two cases involving the now-defunct ‘golden passports’ scheme – one of them relating to the reveals made by the al Jazeera network.
Speaking ...
Police investigations into the fallout from the investment for passport scheme are at an advanced stage, top members of a four-hour meeting of the key overseers heard on Friday.
There ...
An unnamed law firm being investigated as part of the investment for passports scandal has had its request to tackle a police search warrant quashed by the supreme court.
According ...
The cabinet proceeded on Wednesday to revoke a further four Cypriot passports from Russians identified within the latest round of EU sanctions against Moscow
The decision also covers the four ...
By Yiannis Seitanides
An Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Cyprus investigation has found that five of its members who provided services for Cyprus’ passport-by-investment scheme committed disciplinary offences as ...
Cyprus will revoke the passports of four sanctioned Russians who had received citizenship under an investment scheme discontinued in late 2020, government sources said on Thursday.
The names of the individuals ...
A woman from Cameroon was arrested at Paphos airport on Tuesday evening for trying to leave the country with a forged Portuguese passport, police said on Wednesday.
According to Paphos ...
The government green-lit close to 400 passports for foreign nationals applying under the now-defunct citizenship-by-investment (CBI) scheme, after the scheme was terminated, MPs heard on Monday.
Interior Minister Nicos Nouris, while ...
Cyprus is one of four countries under consideration for the US visa waiver programme allows citizens to come to America without a visa for a stay of up to 90 days.
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The European Commission has received a response from Cypriot authorities regarding the island’s now- defunct ‘golden passports’ scheme, and will continue dialoguing with Nicosia, a Commission spokesman said on ...
Following reports that the prime minister’s inner circle had acquired Cypriot passports, Cambodia’s parliament on Monday passed constitutional amendments barring holders of the country’s top posts, including ...
The cabinet has decided to rescind the Cypriot citizenship granted to 45 foreign nationals as part of the island’s controversial citizenship by investment programme that was terminated late last year ...
Holders of a Cypriot passport can travel to 176 destinations without a visa, according to the latest Henley Passport Index where the document ranked 15th out of 198 passports, dropping two spots ...
The government has finished examining all pending applications filed under the – now defunct – citizenship-by-investment programme, and has duly briefed the European Union, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said on Tuesday.
The ...
The supreme court has cancelled a search warrant issued in connection with a police probe into a former MP who was caught on camera offering to help secure Cypriot citizenship ...
Two more men aged 21 were arrested at Paphos airport for attempting to fly out of Cyprus using forged or stolen travel documents, police said on Wednesday.
One of the two ...
Was President Anastasiades offering some light relief to lift the gloom caused by the opening of Varosha by proposing a return to the 1960s constitution, or was this another display ...
The back-and-forth between President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar spilled over into the domestic political arena on Thursday, with the administration and the main opposition party trading ...
President Nicos Anastasiades said on Wednesday the Greek Cypriot community was ready to return to the 1960 regime with Turkish Cypriots taking the positions granted to them by the constitution, suggesting ...
Another person, a man of African origin aged 23 has been arrested at Paphos airport with what police believe is a stolen passport.
He was aiming to fly to Berlin in ...
Ruling Disy said on Tuesday it agreed with a government decision to revoke the passports of 14 Turkish Cypriot officials seen as undermining the Republic, saying it was both symbolic and ...
Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said on Tuesday that the Turkish Cypriot ‘officials’ who have had their passports rescinded can seek recourse in the courts of the Republic if they so ...