#Odysseas Michaelides

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 ...

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 ...