The Giovani Group on Tuesday said none of its executives have ever had dealings of any sort with persons named in the latest report by the Al Jazeera Investigative Unit ...
The state Legal Service has forwarded the findings of an inquiry into the citizenship by investment programme to police with instructions to investigate whether any criminal offences had been committed ...
A report into the now-defunct citizenship-by-investment (CBI) programme, released on Tuesday, conveys a picture of an almost total system failure – authorities and actors across the board not doing proper background ...
The government may have thought it could ride the storm caused by last year’s revelations about the citizenship scheme by announcing it would stop receiving any more applications from ...
Brussels is taking action against Cyprus for continuing to process pending applications for citizenship even though the passports for investment scheme was axed last November amid a scandal over corruption ...
The 780 pages of findings of the investigative committee set up to look into the citizenship scheme from 2007 to 2020 was given to the attorney-general on Monday and the summary released did ...
Those who exploited the deficiencies of the citizenship by investment programme should not be sleeping at night, President Nicos Anastasiades said Tuesday, a day after a panel handed over the ...
The interior ministry had ignored the opinion of the attorney-general in 2015 and 2016 that granting citizenships to the families of investors was potentially unlawful and the cabinet was committing offences en ...
An inquiry into the island’s controversial citizenship by investment programme is set to recommend rescinding 44 passports, 22 more than in its interim report that was issued in April suggested, it ...
The brother of former Transport Minister Marios Demetriades on Tuesday flatly denied the latter had anything to do with applications filed by their family’s law firm on behalf of ...
The Limassol bishopric said Wednesday it knew nothing of the illegal activities of a man it had tried to help secure a Cypriot passport through the citizenship by investment programme.
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Political meddling aimed at speeding up applications by foreign nationals under the citizenship-by-investment (CBI) scheme was quite commonplace, the former head of the migration department said on Tuesday.
Anni Shakalli, ...
Lawyer Andreas Pittadjis on Friday called on Al Jazeera to release the unedited videos of their undercover documentary that exposed the island’s citizenship by investment scheme, and reiterated that ...
Attorney-general Giorgos Savvides has filed an appeal at the supreme court against a resolution passed by parliament calling on him and his deputy Savvas Angelides to recuse themselves from the ...
Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar said he would return his Cypriot ID and passport if he could after it emerged he too was a registered citizen of the Republic of ...
A recently published interim report into the citizenship-by-investment programme by a government-appointed panel fully vindicates earlier findings by the Audit Office, it said on Tuesday after reviewing the report.
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The interior ministry said Wednesday it would comment on the damning findings of an inquiry into the citizenship to investment programme after an in-depth study of the hefty report that ...
The interim findings of an investigation into the citizenship-by-investment scheme were released Tuesday, recording a litany of irregularities and outright unlawful practices in the granting of Cypriot passports down the ...
A panel investigating the controversial citizenship by investment programme said Friday its interim findings reports would be published after personal data and certain other data were redacted for public interest ...
Parliament on Thursday called for the immediate release of an interim report on the controversial passports scheme that was recently completely and delivered to the attorney-general.
In a resolution, the ...
The Cyprus passport has been ranked 13th in the world in terms of the number of destinations its holders can access without a prior visa, according to the latest Henley ...
The three high profile individuals who appeared in the al Jazeera network expose will be the next to testify before the panel investigating passports granted under the now-defunct citizenship-by-investment (CBI) ...
The government on Monday sought to play down the findings of an inquiry into the controversial citizenship by investment programme, which found problems with close to 52 per cent of the ...
In a fiery session in parliament on Thursday, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris conceded that the five foreign nationals linked to the Ayia Napa marina project and granted Cypriot passports, strictly ...