Three jailed in Tepak EU funding racket
The criminal court on Thursday announced jail sentences ranging from two to four years for three people found guilty in a racket involving EU- funded...
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Coronavirus panic is a good time to bury scandals
ONE OF the many negatives of the pandemic is that the deep state in Cyprus will bury the recent scandals more easily and quietly while...
Sex scandal turmoil delays Nobel prize (Update)
The Swedish Academy which decides the Nobel Prize for Literature said on Friday it would not make the award this year because of a sexual misconduct scandal...
Trying to end scandal, May appoints Javid as interior minister
Britain‘s Theresa May appointed Sajid Javid as her new interior minister on Monday, elevating the former banker to try to draw a line under an...
Scandal surrounds Larnaca land registry
Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides suggested criminal offences may have been committed in the process of housing the Larnaca land registry in its current building during discussion...
Shamed by scandal, South Korea’s Park asks for exit plan
South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Tuesday asked parliament to decide how and when she can give up power over an influence-peddling scandal, taking the...
German prosecutors widen market manipulation probe to VW chairman
German carmaker Volkswagen said on Sunday that German prosecutors had widened an investigation into suspected market manipulation to include supervisory board Chairman Hans Dieter Poetsch....
Sarikas: too busy to be bribed
Edek MP and former Paphos mayor Fidias Sarikas told the district’s Criminal Court on Wednesday that he did not take part in discussions about backhanders...
Former municipal councillor cops to tax dodging but not bribery
Although he left some revenues out of his tax returns, he was never bribed, former Paphos municipal councillor Giorgos Michaelides told the court on Wednesday....
Landfill scandal case adjourned until next month
The high-profile waste disposal trial was adjourned until October 5 on Tuesday because one of the judges of the three-member Nicosia Criminal Court was absent....
Our View: Clearly, Akel are not the innocents they claim to be on money matters
WHEN THE Dromolaxia case was being investigated the Akel leader Andros Kyprianou claimed it was all a set-up designed to damage his party. He persisted...
SAPA files suit against private contractors
The Paphos Sewerage Board (SAPA) has filed lawsuits for over €10 million in counter-demands against private contractors who won SAPA contracts, according to Paphos mayor...
Spain’s De Gea denies links to prostitution case, to stay with squad (Update)
De Gea vehemently denies allegations MADRID, June 10 (Reuters) – Spain goalkeeper David de Gea said on Friday that press reports linking him to a...
Process begins to end contract with Enviroplan
Interior Minister Socratis Hasikos said on Sunday the government would be proceeding immediately with cancelling its agreement with waste consultants Enviroplan following an opinion of...
Lolos charged with bribery and corruption
Theofanis Lolos, the director of Enviroplan SA, the company acting as consultant for the state on a number of waste management projects, was on Tuesday...
AKEL chief’s prison visit to Zannetos was lawful ‘but odd’
Incarcerated AKEL cadre Venizelos Zannetos has the right to be visited by anyone at the Central Prisons as he has not been remanded in custody or...
Contractor ‘found himself in a situation of extortion’ during SAPA works
LOIZOS Iordanous, owner of Loizos Iordanous Construction, took the witness stand at the Paphos Criminal Court on Thursday, where the Paphos Sewerage Board (SAPA) trial...
Contractor’s paid kickbacks in sewerage case because they were ‘afraid’
Officials of Medcon Construction Ltd agreed to pay kickbacks to former Paphos Mayor Savvas Vergas and former Paphos Sewerage Board (SAPA) director Eftichios Malekides because...
‘Many crooks will get what’s coming to them’ (updated)
The people who masterminded the scandal hit waste management contracts, to the detriment of taxpayers, will get what they deserve, Paphos Mayor Phedonas Phedonos asserted...
Our View: Anastasiades in court – treading on thin ice?
AKEL and DIKO were correct to question President Anastasiades’ decision to appear as a defence witness in the trial of Rikkos Erotokritou and to urge...