#Odysseas Michaelides

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 ...

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 ...