Coronavirus: govt issues guidelines for betting shops due to reopen on Saturday
Betting shops, which are due to reopen on Saturday must only serve customers on a ‘take away’ system, as people cannot sit inside the shops...
OPAP
Heated exchanges over Opap affair
Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides and private data commissioner Irini Loizidou Nicolaidou resumed their very public spat on Thursday over the former’s refusal to divulge to the...
Data watchdog ‘duty-bound to report audit boss’ over whistleblower
Private data commissioner Irini Loizidou Nicolaidou said Friday she was duty-bound to report the auditor-general’s failure to furnish her with information concerning a whistleblower,...
Auditor-general defends whistleblower’s identity in Opap probe
THE private data commissioner has reported the auditor-general to the attorney-general after he refused to provide her with the name of a whistleblower, sparking a...
Eighth Opap All Star game to be held on December 15
The top basketball players of our teams that will participate in the Opap Basket League will be doing two separate things! The Opap All Star...
Parliament ends Opap monopoly
By Evie Andreou The House plenum on Friday passed a law which puts an end to the monopoly of Opap Cyprus in lottery games and...
Auditor-general says Opap owes state over €50m
To date, the state’s financial claims against Opap Cyprus Ltd, a subsidiary of the Greek gambling giant, amount to ‘well over’ €50 million, the auditor-general...
Betting giant given go-ahead to try and stop police probe
The supreme court on Monday gave the green light to betting giant Opap Cyprus to file for a second injunction to stop police investigations into...
Audit chief cites suspicious wire transfers by Opap
Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides on Thursday denied that his office unlawfully obtained financial information relating to Opap Cyprus Ltd, a subsidiary of the Greek gambling giant....
AG, audit boss in war of words with Opap
By Peter Michael BOTH the attorney-general and the auditor-general faced-off with Opap on Wednesday, slamming as ‘offensive’ accusations by the Greek lottery giant that the...
Opap reiterates it is paying its dues
Opap Cyprus Ltd, a subsidiary of the Greek gambling giant, reiterated on Tuesday that the annual dues it pays to the government are in line...
Government seeks further legal advice on Opap issue (Update)
FINANCE Minister Harris Georgiades has asked Attorney-general Costas Clerides for guidance on the next steps in connection with an agreement between Cyprus and Greece governing...
Audit chief tells president finance ministry failed the state in Opap case
By Angelos Anastasiou Finance Minister Harris Georgiades has failed to safeguard the interests of the Republic of Cyprus in connection with the interstate agreement between...
State losing €12m in revenues from ‘bad’ Opap deal
THE Treasury said on Friday it would seek the advice of the Attorney-general over an agreement between the state and betting giant Opap, which the...
AG censures state’s loss of revenue from Opap contract
The attorney-general has censured the way the finance ministry was interpreting an agreement with betting giant Opap, which apparently cost the state up to €12m...
Once a fixture of Cyprus life
By Annette Chrysostomou From the peddlars who sold the tickets to the glamorous Irene Charalambidou who announced the winning numbers every Saturday night on TV,...
Limassol resident wins 3 million in Lotto draw
A person in Cyprus has won over 3 million euros on the Lotto, it was reported on Sunday. The ticket had been purchased for 14...
The ‘Neophytos Chandriotis’ library was inaugurated in Paphos
It has its own history… The ‘Neophytos Chandriotis’ library, which was inaugurated last month, at the Panayia Theoskepasti high school by Paphos Bishop Georgios, has...
Scrappy piece of land transformed into Paphos park
The Paphos mayor officially inaugurated on Wednesday evening an upgraded park area in the centre of Paphos, the result of a joint project between...
Betting giant Opap refuses to hand over its books
Attorney-general Costas Clerides has ordered a police investigation into betting giant Opap after it refused to hand over its accounts to the state treasurer without...
