#criminal investigation

An independent criminal investigation has been opened into allegations made by Ioanna Fotiou, known publicly as Annie Alexui, against seven police officers. Fotiou said on Friday that she had been ...

Government defends Mafia State investigators amid conflict claims The government on Friday sought to defend the composition of the criminal investigation team appointed to carry out an inquiry into the ...

A photograph shared by researcher Makarios Drousiotis on Thursday, purporting to depict an injury on the arm of the woman nicknamed ‘Sandy’, appears to have been uploaded to the Internet ...

Police investigations into contested digital evidence in the ‘Sandy’ case continued to widen as forensic findings raised new inconsistencies. Authorities are seeking a secondary mobile phone described after forensic examination ...

Furloughed Paphos mayor Phedonas Phedonos could be formally indicted as early as this week, reports said on Tuesday, while his attorney told the Cyprus Mail they have yet to receive ...

Suspended Paphos mayor Phedonas Phedonos on Wednesday dismissed a blackmail complaint examined by police as a “ridiculous tale”, saying it stemmed from a private family dispute and formed part of ...

A man wanted in Cyprus for alleged participation in a criminal organisation, arson and illegal gains has been arrested in Salonica, Greece, it was made known on Wednesday. The 22-year-old ...

Five men accused of participating in a criminal organisation will remain in custody until the start of their trial, the Larnaca criminal court ruled on Monday, citing a risk of ...

Ten people, accused of being allegedly involved in the attempted murder of Demetris Andronikou, aka Demetroui, who was shot at from a motorbike in broad daylight on April 23, appeared in ...

It is now time for the state to begin preparing criminal prosecutions against those involved in the killing of Thanasis Nicolaou, investigator Savvas Matsas said on Monday. Speaking to the ...

Anthropologist Eleftheria Charilaou testified in the Limassol Court on Thursday during the inquiry into the 2005 death of national guardsman Thanasis Nicolaou. On Monday, the police guard responsible for transporting the ...

National guardsman Thanasis Nicolaou’s family is determined to open private criminal proceedings against those who they deem responsible for covering up his death in 2005, lawyer Christos Triantafyllides told the ...

The mother and father of the national guardsman Thanasis Nicolaou who was found dead in 2005 met with the attorney general on Wednesday – with both parties calling on anyone with information ...

The state pathologist who wrote up the initial report on the death of Thanasis Nicolaou as a suicide has filed a complaint with the police watchdog unit against the police ...