Cyprus suspends cooperation with Russia in Browder case
Cyprus has again suspended cooperation with Russia, which has been seeking assistance from the government in Moscow’s alleged case of tax evasion against Hermitage...
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Helping Russia against Browder will be costly for Cyprus, lawyer says
By Stelios Orphanides The Cypriot lawyer of William Browder said that he has appealed against the Nicosia District Court’s decision dismissing a request for an...
Court says Cyprus can help Russia in Browder case (Update 2)
The Nicosia district court on Friday denied a request by Hermitage Capital founder Bill Browder for an order banning Cypriot authorities from cooperating with Russia in a probe...
Kremlin foe Browder to West: Russian money Putin’s Achilles heel
Once the biggest foreign money manager in Russia, Bill Browder has some advice for the West: If you want to counter Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin, then go...
Documents link Klyuev to FBME accounts of Altem and Zibar (Updated)
Dmitry Klyuev, the sanctioned Russian bank owner considered by the US as the mastermind of a tax fraud uncovered by Sergei Magnitsky, had indeed banked...
MEP raises Magnitsky case with AG as Cyprus launches PR crusade
By Stelios Orphanides As Cyprus launches a public relations campaign abroad to improve its reputation as a regional financial centre, focusing on its activities in...
AG objects Browder’s request to cancel cooperation with Russia
By Stelios Orphanides The Cypriot government objected to a request filed by Hermitage Capital’s founder Bill Browder for an emergency injunction barring Cyprus from cooperating...
UK MP blasts Cyprus for co-operating with Russia, MoJ insulted (Update 1)
A British lawmaker claimed Cyprus “actively” obstructs a global money laundering investigation involving Russia and the UK should therefore seek to downgrade it to non-compliant...
Russian ambassador says Browder’s court case hurt ties to Russia
Russian ambassador to Nicosia Stanislav Osadchiy said that Cyprus’s relations to Russia, one of its major commercial partners, suffered after Hermitage Capital founder Bill Browder...
Justice Minister Nicolaou says Cyprus to object to Browder’s application
The Republic of Cyprus will object to the application of Hermitage Capital founder Bill Browder for an emergency injunction filed at the Nicosia District Court...
Court gives AG a month’s time to file objection against Browder’s request
Nicosia District Court judge Ioannis Ioannides gave the defence time until November 6 to consider whether they will file a complementary objection to the application for an...
Cyprus acting like a ‘Russian colony’
By Stelios Orphanides HERMITAGE Capital founder Bill Browder said Cyprus should stop cooperating with Moscow in Russian “politically motivated” criminal proceeding against him and his partner Ivan Cherkasov...
FBME: Assad’s WMD front company implicated in Magnitsky case
A report drafted by the accounting firm Ernst & Young (EY) on FBME Bank (Cyprus) in 2014 appears to implicate Balec Ventures Inc, a front company linked...
Russian request to Cyprus for documents was Magnitsky-related
By Elias Hazou CONTRARY to government claims, a Russian mutual legal assistance (MLA) request to Cypriot authorities does appear to be directly related to the...
Our View: And we wonder why Cyprus is still linked to money-laundering
WHEN Cyprus had sought financial assistance from the EU in 2012, during the bailout talks there were many reports in the German media labelling the...
Cyprus link to ‘universally condemned’ Russia tax fraud case
By Elias Hazou Police last week raided the Nicosia offices of the law firm representing the Hermitage Fund, embroiled in the largest fraudulent tax rebate...