Kittis rushed to hospital
STATHIS Kittis, the incarcerated ex-boss of the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority, was rushed from his prison cell to hospital yesterday afternoon after complaining of chest pains....
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Sentences of three and a half to nine years in Dromolaxia case (Update 2: adds judge’s comments)
By Constantinos Psillides THE Larnaca Criminal Court issued a final verdict on the Dromolaxia scandal on Monday, jailing all five guilty parties on various charges...
Ruling expected in Dromolaxia land scandal
Larnaca criminal court is expected to rule later Monday on the Dromolaxia land deal scandal, the first of many scandals that emerged over the last...
Kittis claims envelope had Man Utd T-shirt, not bribe
By Elias Hazou STATHIS Kittis, former chairman of state telecoms company CyTA, on Thursday again denied taking kickbacks in a multi-million land deal financed through...
Kickback claims ‘baseless’ Kittis tells court
By Angelos Anastasiou FORMER CyTA chairman Stathis Kittis, one of the accused in the ‘Dromolaxia scandal’, in which a plot of land was bought illegally...
CyTA advisory committee had reservations about suspect deal
By Elias Hazou FORMER chairman of the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (CyTA) Stathis Kittis sat on the panel that ultimately approved investing over €21m in a...
CyTA trial takes a twist as defence challenges witness
By George Psyllides THE defence in the trial concerning a suspicious land deal involving the pension fund of state telecoms company CyTA sought to hurt...
Lillis tells all in latest round of Dromolaxia scandal hearings
By Angelos Anastasiou IT WAS entrepreneur Nikos Lillis’ turn to testify for the prosecution at the Larnaca Assize court yesterday in the controversial CyTA land...
Defendants in CyTA land scandal plead not guilty
By Angelos Anastasiou EIGHT defendants – seven persons and a legal entity – implicated in the CyTA land scandal yesterday pleaded not guilty to all...
CyTA: how the suspect deal was made possible
By Elias Hazou THE report into the Dromolaxia investment hints at a network of personal connections which made the deal possible. In late 2009 Christakis...
Stathis Kittis resigns
Cyta chairman Stathis Kittis resigned. Related story here...
New arrests in CyTA scandal
By George Psyllides POLICE yesterday arrested three suspects, two of whom were members of former ruling party AKEL, in connection with a suspicious land deal...
Kittis declared unwelcome at CyTA
By Poly Pantelides The chairman of state telecommunications CyTA, who is under a graft investigation over a dodgy land deal, was prevented from entering the...
Fourth land deal suspect arrested at airport (updated)
Orestis Vassiliou, state telecoms company CYTA’s union representative who was wanted in connection with a dodgy land deal in Larnaca involving the organisation’s pension fund,...
A litany of dirty dealings
By George Psyllides THE CHAIRMAN of state telecommunications company CyTA and an AKEL MP allegedly received €1.0 million each in kickbacks in connection with a...
Police arrest CyTA chairman, two others in connection with land deal
Police on Tuesday arrested the chairman of the island’s state telecommunications company CyTA and two others – a CyTA employee and land registry official –...
Tug-of-war over CyTA chair as Kittis hits back
By Stefanos Evripidou Embattled telecoms chief Stathis Kittis said yesterday he did not intend on staying at the CyTA helm for ever but that his...
Kittis: deal was legitimate and sound
THE CHAIRMAN of the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (CyTA) wrapped up his defence yesterday of a 2011 pension fund investment, which is under investigation by a...
Kittis will have to appear a third time before panel
By Peter Stevenson CYPRUS Telecommunications Authority (CyTA) chairman Stathis Kittis will be called to testify for a third time before a panel investigating the purchase...
CyTA boss talks of ‘hidden agendas’ in land deal slurs
By Elias Hazou THE CHAIRMAN of the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (CyTA) stuck to his guns yesterday, reiterating that the pension fund’s investments were sound and...
