#Organised crime

Larnaca mayor Andreas Vyras led the outrage on Monday after a mass brawl which saw weapons drawn and shots fired took place in the town’s centre on Saturday, with ...

New details have emerged about the events leading up to Saturday’s violent brawl and gunshots fired outside Larnaca police headquarters, with police issuing four arrest warrants in connection with ...

Justice Minister Costas Fitiris on Sunday stressed the need for close cooperation between the state, local authorities and civil society to address what he described as a “crisis” linked to ...

Europol’s 2025 Serious and Organised Crime Threat Assessment (Socta) has listed seven key types of crime that require law enforcement in Cyprus. The report identifies cyberattacks, online fraud, child sexual ...

Cyprus faces mounting international scrutiny after a global report on organised crime warned that individuals within the Cypriot state are acting in ways that support criminal networks. The global initiative ...

Minister of Justice and Public Order, Marios Hartsiotis, made some astonishing statements about organised crime on Wednesday. Speaking to journalists after a meeting at the legislature, Hartsiotis said that “organised ...

Organised crime in Cyprus is now often imported from abroad, Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis said on Wednesday. Addressing a behind-closed-doors session of the House legal committee held in light of ...

Cyprus has recorded a sharp rise in drug seizures in 2025, with cannabis and cocaine quantities doubling compared to last year. The rise comes amid intensified, targeted operations at the country’...

Brazilian police and tax officials carried out a series of raids early on Thursday across the country targeting multibillion-dollar money laundering and fraud schemes linked to organised crime in the ...

Authorities are investigating a network of around 80 individuals, with three arrest warrants issued and two suspects already in custody as of Wednesday. The Nicosia district court on Tuesday approved an ...

Police carried out a series of raids on Monday in the context of an operation to clamp down on organised crime, including last month’s fire at the Nicosia racecourse. ...

New acting prison director Charis Philippides said on Tuesday that progress is being made towards stamping out organised crime in prisons and corruption among guards. “It is important to bear ...

The eight people who are currently being held in custody in relation to the shooting of Demetris Andronikou in April were to be brought back to court on Wednesday after ...

The police command has put in force an action plan, which is aimed at “prevention and elimination of serious and organised crime.” Details of the plan, which came into force ...

The police branch of the Isotita trade union on Wednesday threatened legal action over plans to extend staff hours in the coming months. The police had on Tuesday announced a ...

Police have launched a two-month clampdown on organised crime, the force’s spokesman Christos Andreou confirmed on Tuesday, while an investigation is underway on how details of the operation got ...

Organised crime has grown to a ‘worrying’ scale, and all elements of society must come together to contain it, speakers said at a workshop held on Monday. The remarks came ...

A member of the Ndrangheta Marando who was living in the north was declared persona non grata by the north’s authorities on Wednesday. The man, named as 76-year-old Sebastiano ...

WEDNESDAY’S trouble at a Limassol football match came as a Godsend to the government, offering it an easy way to show some toughness and decisiveness that have been lacking ...

The batch of measures announced last week by the police to tackle organised crime and football violence either don’t go far enough or will fall flat, an ex-cop tells ...

A relative of one of the members of the independent police complaints authority is “involved in organised crime”, it was heard at the House ethics committee on Wednesday. The committee ...

The 500 “new” police officers joining the force this year announced by Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis are actually just planned hires to fill vacancies, a ministry spokesman clarified on Wednesday. “This ...

Measures announced to tackle organised crime came under fire on Tuesday, while Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis said their immediate introduction would boost effectiveness as holistic improvements to the structure of ...

Police on Monday announced eight measures aimed at tackling organised crime and football violence, including increasing the number of front-line officers, more patrols and inspections on all sports fans attending ...