#Odysseas Michaelides

In a courtroom that was packed to the brim, an audible sob followed the news that Auditor-General Odysseas Michaelides was fired on Wednesday. The hearing lasted two hours and at ...

The Supreme Constitutional Court’s decision to sack Auditor-General Odysseas Michaelides “essentially abolishes the audit service and democracy”, he told audit office staff on Wednesday. In farewell remarks to his ...

The presidential palace on Wednesday hit back against allegations that President Nikos Christodoulides was behind efforts to have Auditor-General Odysseas Michaelides fired. In a fiery statement outside the Supreme Court ...

Dismissed Auditor-General Odysseas Michaelides said on Wednesday the system has “successfully beheaded me”. Speaking after the Supreme Constitutional Court’s decision to relieve him of his duties was handed down, ...

Auditor-General Odysseas Michaelides was fired on Wednesday following a Supreme Constitutional Court decision, as he called the outcome a “black day for Cyprus.” In a unanimous ruling, a panel of ...

The big decision over the fate of Auditor General Odysseas Michaelides’ job is expected to be announced today at the Supreme Constitutional Court. Inevitably a high-stakes case, the hearing is ...

The Supreme Constitutional Court will be announcing its ruling on September 18 on the attorney-general’s request for the dismissal of the auditor-general on the grounds of inappropriate conduct. In a ...

Five high-profile court cases are set to dominate the headlines in the upcoming weeks, ranging from the contentious golden passports trial, the fate of the auditor-general’s job and Thanasis ...

Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides’ cross examination was adjourned on Thursday at the Supreme Constitutional Court, as one of the judges had a medical issue and was unable to attend the hearing. ...

Attorney General George Savvides would be happy to see Auditor General Odysseas Michaelides “completely annihilated,” the Supreme Constitutional Court heard on Tuesday. The statement was made by Michaelides as he ...

There has been a ‘systemic issue’ in not granting auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides access to key data, the Supreme Constitutional Court heard on Monday, as the case filed for his dismissal ...

The cross examination of Attorney-General George Savvides became heated on Thursday before the Supreme Constitutional Court, as accusations of ineptitude and inappropriate conduct were flung about rampantly in raised tones. ...

Conflicts of interest and an adjournment marked the beginning of the first court proceedings on Thursday, for the attorney-general’s motion to have the auditor-general removed from his post. The ...

Auditor General Odysseas Michaelides on Friday morning filed opposition proceedings against the legal service’s motion to have him suspended from his post. The first hearing will take place on ...

Bearing placards expressing support to Auditor General Odysseas Michaelides, hundreds of people protested outside the legal service on Sunday. They then marched to the presidential palace, where they called on ...

The legal service on Friday filed a case to suspend Auditor-General Odysseas Michaelides. Legal service spokeswoman Maria Lantidou confirmed the case’s filing to the Cyprus Mail, with the case ...

The ‘war’ between the legal service and audit office is creating a climate of intimidation, the latter charged on Wednesday, as steps to remove auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides from his post ...

The Internal Audit Service chief Anna Zavou-Christoforou said on Wednesday she had “no other choice” but to report auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides for “inappropriate behaviour”. Her statements on the state broadcaster ...

The Audit Office on Monday moved to report the Legal Service to the European Commission and the International Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions (Intosai) amid allegations of threats, revenge, and ...

MPs called for more transparency over the social support fund managed by the First Lady during Wednesday’s House ethics committee. The bill was tabled by Disy MPs Nikos Georgiou ...

MPs piled on the pressure to Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou on Wednesday to come clean over the contentious investigation on the Akamas road works. The topic has been cause for ...

Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides is the most popular individual of all independent institutions, with 71 per cent of the public having a positive view of him, it emerged on Monday. The findings ...

Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides on Wednesday described a planned separation of his powers set out by President Nikos Christodoulides as “legally impossible”. In a post on X, he said the Audit ...

THERE is no controlling the Odysseas-general when his super-sized ego has been wounded by suggestions that his oft-repeated claims of infallibility might be on shaky ground. He just cannot cope ...