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Corruption news in Cyprus and abroad, covering investigations, allegations, court cases and reform, including transparency, oversight and public accountability.

Economy

Politician helped ineligible people get POW allowance, MPs told

The head of the Pancyprian Association of 1974 Prisoners of War has told parliament that a politician helped people...
Local

Ex-minister Demetriades faces 84 charges as ‘golden passports’ trial opens

The trial of former transport minister Marios Demetriades and nine other defendants in the ‘golden passports’ case opened at...
Local

‘Black van’ businessmen held roles in same company, records show

Company records show that Israeli businessman Tal Dilian and Avraham Shahak Avni both held roles in the same Cyprus-registered...
Local

Cyprus democracy vulnerable to backsliding as trust in institutions erodes

Public confidence in the independence of Cyprus’s judiciary has fallen markedly in recent years, while distrust in institutions and...
Politics

Presidency says Cyprus has implemented around 80% of GRECO recommendations

Cyprus has fully or partly implemented around eight in 10 of the GRECO recommendations currently under review, a Presidency...
Local

Executed Chinese official held Cypriot passport, inquiry never mentioned him

The inquiry into Cyprus's exceptional naturalisation of investors and businesspeople made no mention of Li Jianping, a Chinese Communist...
Local

Naturalised Cypriot executed in China, son faces laundering probe

Cyprus police are investigating the son of an executed Chinese Communist Party official and two family friends of the...
Local

Anastasiades’s law firm: no chance to respond to money laundering, influence-trading findings

The law firm Nicos Chr. Anastasiades & Partners LLC and two lawyers have filed an appeal at the Administrative...
Local

Drousiotis faces 73 charges as ‘Sandy’ case reaches Criminal Court

The long-running "Sandy" case reached court for the first time yesterday, with investigative journalist and author Makarios Drousiotis the...
Local

Anti-corruption chief says ‘black van’ case still open

The "black van" case, and the wider surveillance affair, should not be considered closed. That is what Transparency Commissioner...
Local

Anastasiades’s law firm sues anti-corruption authority over ‘Mafia State’ report

Nicos Chr. Anastasiades and Partners LLC, the law firm of former President Nicos Anastasiades, has filed a court appeal...
Opinion

Savvides and Angelidis should have been the first to demand the investigation

It took us back to the days when the Attorney General and the Auditor General traded public statements on...
Local

“Sandy case”: Drousiotis, Kyriakou referred to December criminal trial

Makarios Drousiotis and Kyriaki Kyriakou made their first court appearance on Wednesday over the high-profile "Sandy" case, with the...
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