#fraud

A company in Limassol has reported the loss of €11,362.50, claiming it was scammed through an email regarding a deposit for machinery ordered from abroad. According to the complaint filed on ...

The fisheries department hit back on Saturday against an audit office report suggesting it may have squandered public funds as a result of an “unacceptable” tender process. A report has ...

The EU’s anti-fraud office (Olaf) is investigating Cyprus’ fisheries department over a tender which the audit office on Friday said contained “unacceptable” conditions and cost €1.5 million more that the ...

Companies registered in Cyprus are part of an ongoing probe led by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) into a €30 million VAT fraud and money-laundering scheme, it emerged on ...

A doctor was on Tuesday sentenced to 32 months in prison for fraud that also involved his wife, who was sentenced to two years in jail. The Nicosia District Court found ...

Close to a hundred people have complained they were victims of the pyramid scheme Metamax, Limassol police said on Tuesday. According to deputy police spokesman Marinos Vasiliou, 90 people have been ...

The U.S. Justice Department has charged 193 people, including 76 doctors, nurses and other medical professionals, with participating in health care fraud schemes worth $2.75 billion, the agency said on Thursday. The ...

People continue to receive fraudulent emails impersonating the police, authorities warned on Friday. These deceptive emails, sent from fake email addresses, incorporate logos of both the Cyprus Police and Interpol. ...

A 48-year-old man was remanded for eight days on Thursday by the Nicosia district court for being allegedly involved in a case of phone fraud involving individuals impersonating doctors. The ...

The health insurance organisation (HIO) on Wednesday suspended a doctor after patients alleged that he was registering their names on Gesy for services he never provided to them. As a ...

A company in Limassol lost over €17,000 after erroneously paying an invoice after it was requested via email, police said on Thursday. The company’s accountant reportedly told police he had ...

Man who faked suicide after scamming millions now the subject of a documentary Rural Paphos is an unlikely location for the effective headquarters of a search for an international fraudster ...

A Greek Cypriot who was arrested by Turkish Cypriot police after presenting them with forged car insurance documents was sentenced to six months in prison on Wednesday. The man, named ...

Cyprus may be embroiled in a €15 million international fraud and money laundering scheme, suspected of obtaining EU funds for IT projects with false invoices, two EU bodies revealed on Thursday. ...

Police on Saturday said they are investigating a new case of electronic fraud, against an investment services company in Limassol. The case was reported by a 40-year-old company executive, who ...

Turkish Cypriot police have arrested seven more people in connection with a n investigation to the forgery of medical prescriptions, reports from the north said on Sunday. The seven arrests ...

A man in northern Nicosia has been arrested after fraudulently obtaining a total of 3,617,166TL (€121,653) in the space of a week in July. According to the Turkish Cypriot police, the ...

Police are investigating an alleged scam in which a woman from Nicosia lost over €77,000. The woman, aged 49, was allegedly persuaded by an unknown person via social media to invest money ...

A British foreign exchange company boss who used investors’ cash to fund his luxury lifestyle was sentenced in his absence to 14 years in jail on Friday over a 70 million pound ($88 ...

A 41-year-old Cypriot born boss of an investment company was found guilty of fraud by a London court jury earlier this week. Anthony Constantinou is estimated to have defrauded clients ...

The Cyprus police on Wednesday has issued a statement alerting people to the circulation of fraudulent email messages falsely claiming to originate from the force. The statement urged individuals to ...

Police on Saturday said a 42-year-old man had been arrested and remanded in connection with a case of extortion through false representation and money laundering. They said that in October 2019, ...

Police on Wednesday arrested a 69-year-old man for alleged fraud by false representation and money laundering in an operation carried out with the help of Greek authorities. The man, who ...

Police on Monday arrested a suspect in a case of securing credit with false representation. According to police spokesman and head of Paphos CID Michalis Nicolaou, on Friday night police ...