72-year-old sentenced to 12 years for cocaine trafficking
A 72-year-old man was sentenced on Friday by the Limassol criminal court of to 12 years in prison for his involvement in two cocaine trafficking cases dating back to May 2022.
The ...
Man who started Cyprus’ worst ever fire jailed for eight years (Updated)
Nearly two years after the catastrophic fires of July 2021, which left four dead and forced the evacuation of ten villages, a 69-year-old man was sentenced to eight years in jail ...
AG appeals lenient sentence for road crash that caused three deaths
Attorney-general Giorgos Savvides on Friday filed an appeal in connection with a sentence imposed for a triple fatal road traffic accident in May 2017 in Pano Polemidia.
Last month, the Limassol ...
Man sentenced to 3.5 years for arson
A 23-year-old man was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison on Tuesday over an arson attack in Larnaca last summer.
The Larnaca-Famagusta criminal court found the man guilty of stealing ...
Russian court upholds US basketball star Griner’s 9-year drug sentence
A Russian court on Tuesday dismissed U.S. WNBA basketball star Brittney Griner‘s appeal against a nine-year sentence for possessing and smuggling vape cartridges containing cannabis oil.
Griner and ...
Court goes easy on corrupt official
Suspended sentence for public employee found guilty in bribery case
A former ministry of interior engineer has avoided jail for the second time after the Supreme Court on Wednesday imposed ...
Man sentenced to two years in jail for starting fire
Limassol criminal court on Wednesday sentenced a 33-year-old man to two years in prison for starting a fire on the edges of a state forest last June.
He was also ...
‘One of the biggest prison sentences for cannabis’
The supreme court upheld one of the biggest sentences handed down for transporting cannabis, as an appellant who received just over ten years imprisonment was unsuccessful in his bid to ...