A 47-year-old lawyer will stand trial before the Limassol Criminal Court on 14 charges of theft by an agent and money laundering involving 185,000 euros. She is accused of taking the money from the estate of a deceased man from Russia.
According to the complaint made to police, the lawyer had been appointed by the Limassol District Court as co-administrator of the estate and was acting as its agent when she allegedly took the money on various dates around mid-2023. The money formed part of the heirs’ inheritance and was held in a bank account. She allegedly transferred it online to her company’s account without any legal right to do so.
The case was filed on Tuesday, September 29, and referred for trial on the instructions of the Law Office of the Republic, which were given only recently although the complaint dates from 2023. The lawyer appeared before the District Court for the referral and remains free under restrictive terms, but must sign a bond of 100,000 euros. The hearing has been set for November.
In recent years she has been the subject of theft cases handled by the courts and by Limassol CID’s Economic Crime Investigation Office. She previously faced a case before the Criminal Court for offences of a similar nature, but that case was suspended after she paid off all the complainants’ claims.
