#corruption

The phenomenon broadly referred to as corruption has existed for over 2,000 years. And throughout history accusations of corruption have caused governments to fall and prominent politicians, including presidents and prime ...

A police officer in Larnaca was placed under arrest on Thursday on suspicion of aiding a suspect connected to a violent incident occurring in the town earlier this month. The ...

Footage recorded by a hidden camera surfaces on X and spreads rapidly. It shows three Cypriot men discussing campaign financing and the alleged evasion of sanctions with apparent ease: a ...

The resignation of President Nikos Christodoulides’ chief of staff and brother-in-law, Charalambos Charalambous, was a necessary response to the video accusing him and others of corruption, Disy president Annita Demetriou ...

From the moment the eight-minute video about the suspect fundraising methods used by President Nikos Chrisodoulides’ entourage for the election campaign appeared on the ‘X’ platform the government has been ...

Limassol-based generics company Remedica on Friday dismissed corruption allegations linking it to the government following the circulation of a video on X, stressing that it has not made political donations ...

The anti-corruption authority’s report, flagging possible criminal liability over water extraction and an illegal fish farm near Trimiklini, had been referred to the attorney-general last month and is now ...

Giorgos Chrysochos, the chief executive officer of construction company Cyfield, denied speaking about President Nikos Christodoulides in a video which alleged campaign finance lawbreaking on the part of Christodoulides and ...

The police have launched an investigation into a video which alleged campaign finance lawbreaking on the part of President Nikos Christodoulides and his associates which was widely shared on social ...

The government on Thursday seemed to reel from the release of a video posted online purporting to reveal how President Nikos Christodoulides and associates engaged in illicit methods to bypass ...

The Law Office has handled three cases referred to it by the authority against corruption and, apart from the latest on the Trimiklini fish farm, there was nothing else pending, ...

The investigation into Mafia State, the controversial book by investigative journalist Makarios Drousiotis, has cost the state more than €1 million to date, according to the president of the independent authority ...

The Anti-Corruption Authority issued a damning report about the way state services completely disregarded the rules and lawful procedures in issuing permits to the Land of Dreams development in Trimiklini. ...

By Emilios Charalambous, Maria Aristidou and Anastasios Kostekoglou Cyprus is possibly heading towards comprehensive anti-corruption legislation aimed at establishing unprecedented transparency in public sector financing. The first version of the ...

Cyprus was ranked 30th out of 143 countries in this year’s edition of the World Justice Project (WJP)’s annual rule of law index, moving up a single place since ...

Nil Pinar Gokmen, the woman who appeared on a webcam video with former Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Ersan Saner in which he performed sexual acts on himself, was on Wednesday ...

Anti-corruption champion Andreas Hasapopoulos has reproved former auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides, saying he has allowed “corrupt individuals who should be jailed” positions in his Alma movement leadership. Hasapopoulos, the administrator of ...

President Nikos Christodoulides focused on legal reform and the fight against corruption in his opening address at the opening of the annual Cyprus Forum on Wednesday night. “The effort for ...

The way in which the education ministry hierarchy protected one of their officials accused by two female subordinates of sexual harassment is scandalous. The first complaint was submitted in May 2023, ...

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Nicosia is running an investigation into the project for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal in Vasiliko, on suspicion of procurement ...

A disagreement between President Nikos Christodoulides and the municipality of Famagusta has led to political tension, following comments made at a recent anti-occupation event, it was reported on Tuesday. The ...

While everyone claims to want corruption eliminated, nothing is done even when it is staring them in the face. The case of Cyprus-registered Blue Ocean, the company that was managing ...

Former Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, who served under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, decried the “quagmire” of corruption, money laundering, and mafia activities in northern Cyprus, describing that quagmire as “...

Former Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, who served under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, called for charges of treason to be brought against those suspected of having been involved in a ...