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The Limassol bishopric said Wednesday it knew nothing of the illegal activities of a man it had tried to help secure a Cypriot passport through the citizenship by investment programme. ...

Lawyer Andreas Pittadjis on Friday called on Al Jazeera to release the unedited videos of their undercover documentary that exposed the island’s citizenship by investment scheme, and reiterated that ...

Attorney-general Giorgos Savvides has filed an appeal at the supreme court against a resolution passed by parliament calling on him and his deputy Savvas Angelides to recuse themselves from the ...

A recently published interim report into the citizenship-by-investment programme by a government-appointed panel fully vindicates earlier findings by the Audit Office, it said on Tuesday after reviewing the report. In ...

The interior ministry said Wednesday it would comment on the damning findings of an inquiry into the citizenship to investment programme after an in-depth study of the hefty report that ...

The interim findings of an investigation into the citizenship-by-investment scheme were released Tuesday, recording a litany of irregularities and outright unlawful practices in the granting of Cypriot passports down the ...

A panel investigating the controversial citizenship by investment programme said Friday its interim findings reports would be published after personal data and certain other data were redacted for public interest ...

Parliament on Thursday called for the immediate release of an interim report on the controversial passports scheme that was recently completely and delivered to the attorney-general. In a resolution, the ...

The three high profile individuals who appeared in the al Jazeera network expose will be the next to testify before the panel investigating passports granted under the now-defunct citizenship-by-investment (CBI) ...

The government on Monday sought to play down the findings of an inquiry into the controversial citizenship by investment programme, which found problems with close to 52 per cent of the ...

In a fiery session in parliament on Thursday, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris conceded that the five foreign nationals linked to the Ayia Napa marina project and granted Cypriot passports, strictly ...

The auditor-general needs to realise that Cyprus is governed by a legally elected president, government spokesman Kyriakos Koushos said on Saturday after the audit office doubled down on its probe ...

The audit office on Friday said it would further investigate the naturalisation of foreign investors approved by the cabinet after last August when stricter regulations had been passed by parliament. ...

The government granted citizenships to 221 foreign investors without applying regulations passed by parliament in August 2020, MPs heard on Thursday. According to the auditor-general, between August 2020 and February 2021, the government granted 221 ...

Former interior minister Neoclis Sylikiotis defended the decision to grant citizenship to individuals who ran into problems later on, saying they fulfilled the criteria at the time. “We couldn’t ...

Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides suggested that 18 citizenships granted to people linked to the company that won the casino resort concession in 2019 had been based on false data supplied by the finance ...

Opposition parties went on the counterattack on Friday, saying President Nicos Anastasiades’ claims that he was a victim of a smear attack over Cyprus’ now defunct golden passport scheme were ...

Lawyer Andreas Pittadjis, who was exposed in Al Jazeera’s ‘The Cyprus Papers’ documentary on Thursday called out the international news network to state its stance on human trafficking after ...

As President Nicos Anastasiades is scheduled to address the nation on Thursday night about anti-corruption measures, opposition parties have taken shots from the sidelines. The stage is set for a ...

Service providers were the main problem of the citizenship by investment programme, a finance ministry official told an investigative committee on Friday. Financial director Kyriacos Kakouris told the four-member panel ...

The members of a panel tasked with probing the island’s controversial citizenship by investment (CBI) scheme said Thursday they are waiving any and all remuneration for their services, seeking ...

President Nicos Anastasiades in an interview published on Sunday rejected opposition allegations of an explosion of corruption during his terms in office but did concede there had been some irregularities ...