#pothen esches

Hopefully, we witnessed the last episode of the farce regarding the submission of asset statements by elected officials on Tuesday. For 20 years, within the framework of the so-called ‘pothen esches’ ...

Three party leaders announced on Tuesday they don’t have any personal vehicles in their eyebrow raising wealth declarations (‘pothen esches’) for 2024. The declarations for 2024 were completed under an older ...

After three years of debate in committee, parliament on Thursday voted through tweaks to the legislation governing the wealth declarations, or capital statements filed by state officials and Politically Exposed ...

The House on Thursday postponed for a week a scheduled vote on a bill regulating the submission of capital statements, or wealth declarations by state officials, politically exposed persons and ...

Not a single MP filed their statement of assets by the designated deadline for this year, forcing the parliament secretariat to grant them a one-month extension, it emerged on Thursday. ...

It is apparent that the authors of the legislation lacked the know-how necessary. As has happened in the past, omissions will lead to deadlocks Recently, I had the opportunity to ...

A real scandal: president did not list his pension in wealth declaration By Efi Xanthou The last week saw the pundits debating Cyprus’ latest scandal: namely President Nikos Christodoulides’ omitting ...

President Nikos Christodoulides failed to claim in his capital statement (‘pothen esches’) an early pension he receives from the foreign ministry on top of his presidential salary, it emerged on ...

MPs are desperately trying to fiddle with their proposed statements of wealth On Tuesday, October 25, Andreas Pasiourtides and Pavlos Mylonas, both members of the House of Representatives’ institutions committee, appeared ...

Praise for the candidates who supported the proposal to combat corruption On many occasions recently, I have heard politicians say that we must regain our credibility to find an exodus ...

In the past, I believed that the malaise of Cyprus was primarily caused by the incompetence and frivolousness of its leaders. Recently however, I have embarked on a process of ...

A group of experts on Monday decried the “complete lack of progress” from government and parliament alike in bringing forward new legislation to overhaul the current system – deemed ineffectual – of ...

The people with the power to combat corruption and collusion are the very ones who benefit from perpetuating them The “Pandora Papers” are a cooperative international project of a large ...

The likelihood of seeing meaningful capital statements published in Cyprus is slim On Monday, September 13, the statements of wealth of members of parliament elected in May were uploaded onto the ...

After all the noise made about corruption, which was highlighted by the Al Jazeera investigation into golden passports, the government announced a series of plans to combat it. There is, ...

Every legislative act has four related but distinct dimensions Despite the visible risk of boring you, I beg you to allow me to revert on the subject of my last ...