#fraud

A 40-year-old was remanded for eight days on Monday for his alleged involvement in a €411,000 fraud case, securing goods under false premises and forgery, police said on Tuesday. The complaint ...

Two company directors behind a fraudulent green investment scheme in Brazil were convicted on Tuesday by a London jury of defrauding about 2,000 investors out of around 37 million pounds. Andrew Skeene ...

Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides on Friday denied that a suspect currently on remand by the courts for allegedly offering families army exemptions for their sons for a hefty fee, was ...

Police on Wednesday warned the public against disclosing their bank data after a 23-year-old was allegedly scammed out of €4,000 in Limassol. The young woman received a phone call from an ...

Limassol police on Wednesday arrested one of two suspects in a case of fraud involving a chain of restaurants. The 38-year-old man, together with a 27-year-old woman who is still ...

A 47-year-old Ukrainian man with Russian citizenship whom the Cypriot courts agreed to extradite to Russia has had the process postponed, due to the “force majeure” of the invasion. The ...

A 43-year-old man arrested in Greece on a European arrest warrant issued for cheque fraud by authorities in the Republic has been brought back to Cyprus to be remanded, police ...

Police in Cyprus have arrested a so-called high value suspect as part of a European operation against an organised crime group involved in binary fraud, Europol said on Monday. The 54...

A 27-year-old Limassol man reported to police that he was apparently defrauded of €38,000 after he transferred the money to someone he had met online in July. According to police, the ...

Limassol police are investigating an email fraud case after a 41-year-old businessman reported he lost more than €38,000. The case was reported to the police on September 14, with the complainant claiming ...

Α 57-year-old woman was remanded in custody by the Paphos court for three days on Tuesday on suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice in a case involving her ...

A 37-year-old man arrested for bank fraud will be extradited to Romania within 10 days, police said on Tuesday. The man was arrested in Paphos on Sunday, in connection to a ...

Telephony providers Primetel are advising subscribers to exercise caution with an ongoing phone scam with calls made from unknown numbers, particularly overseas numbers. In a press release, the company said ...

Medical professionals are being dropped from the general health system (Gesy) for trying to cheat the system through fictitious claims, the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) revealed on Tuesday. Reports place ...

The Supreme Court has set aside a two-year suspended jail sentence for forgery and money laundering as inadequate and ordered the defendant be jailed for four years, the Cyprus News ...

The health ministry said on Thursday it had filed a complaint with police following suspicions that a company it contracts with for its free rapid testing programme had submitted duplicate ...

Police warned the public to be aware of Internet fraudsters after a Limassol resident paid close to €21,000 for an excavator he never received. Police said the man filed a complaint ...

Hellenic Bank on Tuesday warned clients about an upsurge in electronic fraud and urged them not to share any of their details. In an announcement, the bank said that in ...

After saying 10 per cent of the estimated 3,000 fraud investigations it would be dealing with each year would involve Cyprus, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) said its figures had ...