Paphos council removes ‘offensive’ corruption sign
Paphos’ municipal council decided on Monday to remove a sign with mayors’ names after certain political parties objected to the fact that two were accompanied...
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Ex-sewerage board head pleads guilty to taking bribes (Updated)
Former head of the Paphos Sewerage Board (Sapa) Eftychios Malekides pleaded guilty in court on Monday to the charge of being bribed by the company running...
Convicted former mayor injured in prison football game
Jailed former Paphos mayor Savvas Vergas was injured on Sunday while playing football at the Nicosia Central Prisons, and was taken to hospital for treatment,...
Waste management defendant gets 18-month suspended sentence
The former director of a company at the centre of a waste management scandal on Friday was given a suspended 18-month jail sentence after he...
New sentence to be announced for Vergas next month
The Nicosia criminal court will next month announce the sentence of former Paphos mayor Savvas Vergas over bribery charges he pled guilty to in connection...
Vergas pleads guilty to corruption charges, again
Jailed former Paphos mayor Savvas Vergas on Wednesday pleaded guilty to corruption charges relating to overcharging at waste-management plants in Paphos and Koshi, Larnaca. Vergas,...
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...
AG drops private criminal prosecution against Phedonos
The attorney-general has decided to suspend a private criminal prosecution brought against Paphos mayor Phedonas Phedonos, having found no evidence of wrongdoing on the mayor’s...
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....
Paphos hearing into threatening SMS adjourned until next January
A hearing in the trial of former Paphos mayor Savvas Vergas and three others over the sending of threatening text messages to various individuals was postponed on Wednesday after he...
Case to answer for Sapa officials
The Paphos Criminal Court on Tuesday found that prosecutors had proven their case against five former and current state officials accused of corruption relating to...
Audit boss says corruption was worse than he expected it to be
Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides said when he took over two and a half years ago, the corruption in public life was worse than he expected it...
Sapa hearing postponed until end of the month
Following a brief cross-examination of disgraced Paphos mayor Savvas Vergas on Wednesday, the court set the next hearing concerning the Paphos Sewerage Board (SAPA) corruption...
And Vergas played the bouzouki…
Disgraced former Paphos mayor and fraudster, Savvas Vergas played bouzouki, and ex TV presenter Elena Skordelli, jailed for her part in the murder of Sigma...
Facing cash delays, contractor gave in to SAPA blackmail
THE chief executive of Atlas Pantou Constructions was being blackmailed by former Paphos Sewerage Board (SAPA) director Eftychios Malekkides into paying kickbacks under threat of...
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...
Vergas to be transferred to prison
Disgraced former Paphos mayor Savvas Vergas was on Tuesday evening expected to be transferred to the central prisons in Nicosia. Vergas is serving a six-year...
Forty fake invoices worth €200,000 found at Helector offices, Paphos court hears
Ioannis Kokotsis, the sixth suspect in the case of alleged overcharging related to the Marathounda waste management plant in Paphos, was remanded for eight days on...
Vergas pays back €0.5m in kickbacks
Incarcerated former Paphos mayor Savvas Vergas received around €0.5m in kickbacks from sewerage board (SAPA) project contractors, which he has paid back to the state,...
Witness in sewerage board trial gives details on kickbacks (Updated)
By Angelos Anastasiou Over €200,000 in kickbacks were paid by Envitec, a Greek company commissioned to upgrade and operate the waste-management plant of the Paphos...