#Attorney General

Parliament has released €7 million in state funding to political parties for the upcoming elections in May, clearing a legal hurdle that had blocked the grant amid questions over alleged irregular ...

The House institutions committee concluded its review on Wednesday of the framework governing the post service activities of former officials amid criticism over the government’s refusal to disclose donor ...

The recent leaked video alleging campaign finance violations by President Nikos Christodoulides and his associates has thrust the terms “hybrid warfare”, “hybrid war”, and “hybrid attack” into Cyprus’ public discourse. ...

Attorney-General George Savvides on Wednesday questioned whether the Supreme Court should be assigned the responsibility of reviewing decisions taken by future attorneys-general, as has been provided for in a bill ...

Attorney-general, George Savvides, has assured that the investigation into a recently released controversial video alleging election funding improprieties will be swiftly completed. “From the very beginning, the leadership of the ...

The police are investigating the video which alleges campaign finance lawbreaking on the part of President Nikos Christodoulides and a number of his close associates as a “hybrid” attack on ...

Any more involvement of the attorney general’s (AG) office on the case of Thanasis Nicolaou is unacceptable and unethical, lawyer for the national guardsman’s family Leto Cariolou charged ...

The legal service on Friday filed a case to suspend Auditor-General Odysseas Michaelides. Legal service spokeswoman Maria Lantidou confirmed the case’s filing to the Cyprus Mail, with the case ...

A bill aimed at criminalising ‘reprehensible behaviour’ online has been misunderstood as an attempt to stifle free speech, attorney-general George Savvides said on Wednesday. It targets “threats and obvious fake ...

AS IF HAVING to deal with the unrelenting attacks of Odysseas was not bad enough, attorney-general Giorgos Savvides is also having to cope with old cases, pre-dating his appointment, that ...

Attorney General George Savvides confirmed on Tuesday that his service was reviewing the case details surrounding a 2012 fatal road accident, for which no one has been held accountable for over ...

The mother of the 26-year-old National Guard soldier Thanasis Nicolaou, whose lifeless body was discovered under the Alassa bridge in Limassol in 2005, took to social media on Wednesday to express ...

The attorney-general’s decision to appeal 76-year-old David Hunter’s sentence and verdict has caused surprise and anguish in both his defence team and family, as well as the broader ...

The attorney-general’s office filed an appeal on Thursday over Briton David Hunter’s two-year sentence for killing his wife, who suffered from a form of blood cancer. The appeal ...

The attorney-general’s office on Thursday welcomed as “very important” a recent judgement by the administrative court upholding the action by the parole board to revoke a prior decision of ...

Deputy attorney-general Savvas Angelides on Monday delivered a stinging verbal attack on the auditor-general, whom he accused of a deliberate and concerted campaign to blacken his name, vowing that he ...

The auditor-general and the attorney-general continued to tangle on Thursday over the status of the latter, and what Europe’s premier anti-corruption body has to say on the issue, on ...

A meeting was held at the attorney-general’s office on Monday, after police efforts to locate Angelos Perikleous, missing since April 20, have failed. According to reports, the meeting was held ...

The attorney general’s (AG) office on Thursday put a stop to a private criminal lawsuit that prison director Anna Aristotelous and her deputy filed against drug squad chief Michalis ...

The official launch of the €1.5 million holistic information technology system managing cases, files, and documents (e-Law) took place on Wednesday, aiming to improve the organisation and operation of the legal ...

The attorney-general’s office has stayed the prosecution of a former municipal councilor and one-time Disy candidate for MP who had been charged with rape. Back in April Andreas Ttaouxis ...

Authorities on Tuesday decided to set up a joint working group made up of state attorneys and police officers to review procedures of requesting court warrants after the supreme court ...