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By Tom Cleaver and Nikolaos Prakas The interior ministry said on Thursday that they agree on the recommendations for stricter checks made in an audit office report on golden visa ...

The Audit Office on Tuesday added fuel to the fire after Paphos mayor Phedonas Phedonos once again criticised the city’s airport, speaking of “unacceptable manipulations” on behalf of the ...

The assignment of army conscripts to ‘easy’ posts appears to be based not on merit, but rather on a soldier’s family background and connections, the auditor-general said in a ...

The building of the legal service of a state is a point of reference in the capital and must have a high aesthetic image and functionality, the architect Eleni Pattichis, ...

Theodosis Tsolias, the finance ministry’s directorate of growth head and former cabinet secretary, has rubbished claims he should quit after taking leave to work in Luxembourg. Tsiolas took leave ...

The audit office is investigating a complaint that claims President Nikos Christodoulides received substantial benefits past his post between 2013 and 2018, while he was working at the presidential palace. Audit office ...

Every single employee at the Presidential palace will have their overtime payments examined by the audit service, following on from recent controversies surrounding payments made to deputy government spokesperson Doxa ...

The auditor office said on Monday that health ministry permanent secretary Christina Yiannaki’s Egyptian dentistry degree is “authentic”, after weeks of speculation over its validity. The speculation reached fever ...

Staffers at the state broadcaster CyBC have been promoted despite not having a recognised university degree or sufficient foreign language fluency, the audit office charged in a letter that went ...

The defence ministry has handed over all the relevant information regarding deferrals of military service, a spokesman has told the Cyprus Mail. The files, which include the details of every ...

The audit service has undertaken an examination of the feasibility of the EuroAsia Interconnector project, it emerged on Thursday. Speaking on CyBC’s morning programme, the spokesman for the audit ...

Failing to stick to criteria in existing legislation has led to varying decisions being made on a case-by-case basis in usage of Turkish Cypriot properties, the audit office said on ...

More than €2 billion in taxes are owed to the state, of which €668 million is at risk of never being received, the Audit Office said in a report released Tuesday. In ...

A large number of Turkish Cypriot properties on the island are currently mismanaged, the audit service said in a special report on Wednesday. The report, available on the audit service’...

The audit service is engaging in character assassination and overstepping the limits of free speech, Attorney-general Giorgos Savvides said on Tuesday, as the two offices continued to exchange barbs. “We ...

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 ...

A team of experts will be flying to Cyprus early in June after the audit service filed a complaint about the defence ministry’s refusal to share documents connected to ...

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 ...

The audit service slammed the environment department in a report on Friday, accusing it of not doing everything it could over the jetty construction at Paralimni marina. The findings detail ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Monday assured that nothing will be done outside the law after the audit office lambasted the deputy tourism minister’s decision to appoint a 19-year-old without ...

At the end of last year, and after the University of Cyprus (UCy) had formally filed its budget request for €81.2 million, it later requested an additional €58.5 million, the Audit Office ...

The audit service on Wednesday said it would report the defence ministry and national guard to the international organisation of supreme audit institutions over its refusal to hand over documents ...

Deputy prison director Athena Demetriou will be seconded to the audit service, it emerged on Wednesday. Spokesman for the audit service Marior Petrides told CNA they were waiting for the ...

There are “omissions and gaps” in the management of Turkish Cypriot properties with only 65 per cent of them have been granted to refugees, data from the audit office reports showed ...