#Odysseas Michaelides

Relations between the government and the audit service are not in crisis, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Friday. Letymbiotis’ comments come after a report by the service on Thursday ...

Taxpayers should brace for a tough 2024, what with the carbon tax slated to kick in early next year while electricity bills will remain high due mainly to the purchase cost ...

Most of the anti-corruption authority’s budget for 2024, around €1.2 million, will be spent on investigating complaints filed before it, officials said on Tuesday. According to the authority, the complaints are ...

The sports ethics committee’s report on the potential squandering of public money by the Olympic Committee (KOE) has been handed over to the attorney general’s office, it emerged ...

THE OTHER day I found myself almost feeling a certain degree of sympathy for our Prez – the sort of sympathy you feel instinctively for someone who is being bullied and ...

Attorney-general Giorgos Savvides on Wednesday sought to set the record straight after auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides slammed the proposed plan for a new legal service building. Earlier in the day, daily ...

A new war of words among institutions has broken out, after the chief of police has refused to provide auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides with data concerning unpaid fines and permits to ...

An interior ministry proposal to tackle land and businesses in Larnaca’s Mackenzie area raised eyebrows during Tuesday’s House refugee committee, after the auditor general said the government cannot ...

Auditor general Odysseas Michaelides on Wednesday slammed the Jho Low parody account on X (formerly Twitter), accusing it of “obscenely slandering” him and “consciously spreading lies against those it wants ...

Facebook has disabled a support group page for auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides, citing violations of its community standards. According to news outlet Stockwatch, the social media platform deactivated the page after ...

The audit service plays a key role in fighting corruption even though this is not under its responsibilities, Auditor General Odysseas Michaelides told university students interning at the parliament on ...

Following heavy criticism in the last few days about people bring given government jobs they were not qualified for, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Wednesday a bill will be drawn ...

Candidates for political office must name their donors, otherwise they have broken the law, Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides has said. He made the comments on Twitter, a day after President Nikos ...

Ombudswoman Maria Stylianou-Lottides on Wednesday said the auditor general had mounted a sexist attack against her for six years. “Today was the pinnacle of a sexist behaviour ongoing for six ...

The biobank.cy centre on Tuesday stressed it was autonomous as it sought to clarify the position of Andrea Christofidou, who became embroiled in the row between the auditor general ...

The Supreme Court on Monday ruled against a petition filed before it by auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides regarding the nomenclature used for the titles of certain public officials – but the ramifications ...

A beach bar in Malama, Protaras has been accused of going rogue and was slammed by the auditor general as being a “monument to illegality”. It is understood that the ...

Police are soon expected to wrap up a criminal investigation into functionaries at the Department of Town Planning and Housing as well as municipal councilors over potentially unlawful property developments, ...

It was evident from the onset that the legal service was going to go out of its way to defend the actions of drug-squad chief Michalis Katsounotos, lawyers for prison ...

Strict scrutiny is welcomed and appreciated, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Wednesday upon receiving the annual report by the Auditor General Odysseas Michaelides. Handing the report for 2021, the AG said ...

Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides said on Wednesday he would file a complaint with police “as a matter of principle” over the publication in Phileleftheros of recent private communications between him and, ...

In a dramatic move on Thursday, Paralimni mayor Theodoros Pyrillis gave the auditor-general a power-of-attorney to access his personal financial information, adding that he’d drive himself to jail if ...

The fight against corruption requires effective monitoring by the supervisory authorities, parliaments and the media, as well as cooperation between them, Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides said on Saturday. He was speaking ...

Strict application of rules and regulations could many times be harmful to public interest, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Monday, a shot at the auditor-general whose annual report he received. ...