#Mafia State

The government has called for patience while independent criminal investigators complete their work in the so-called Mafia State case, insisting that the investigation must proceed free from political interference. Speaking ...

Government sources on Friday evening told the Cyprus News Agency (CNA) that the five-member independent investigative team appointed by the Council of Ministers would “immediately” begin its investigation into the ...

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 ...

The government on Thursday named the team of five criminal investigators it is to appoint to examine the findings reached by the anti-corruption authority during its own probe into the ...

The government will announce the appointment of criminal investigators to examine the findings of the Mafia State affair as soon as possible, possible after Wednesday’s cabinet meeting, government spokesman ...

The government decision to appoint independent criminal investigators, to look into the possible offences listed in the report by the anti-corruption authority about the allegations made in Mafia State, does ...

The government search for independent criminal investigators to examine the findings of the anti-corruption authority’s Mafia State report are continuing after several lawyers reportedly declined to take part, citing ...

Direct Democracy has submitted a parliamentary resolution calling for the resignation of attorney-general George Savvides and his deputy, Savvas Angelides, on Thursday. The proposal was announced before the House by ...

Alma has called for criminal investigators examining the findings of the Mafia State report to be selected by the independent anti-corruption authority rather than by the cabinet, arguing that the ...

The government intends to appoint not just one, but multiple independent investigators to evaluate the findings reached by the anti-corruption authority during its own probe into the book, Mafia State, ...

Disy on Tuesday reacted to former party leader and president Nicos Anastasiades’ hour-long oral defence against allegations of abuse of power levelled against him by the anti-corruption authority by renewing ...

Answers for every accusation levelled at him in the anti-corruption authority’s Mafia State report were offered by former president Nicos Anastasiades on Tuesday, in an hour-long address. Regarding the ...

The full findings of the anti-corruption authority’s investigation into the Mafia State book were handed to the police and the cabinet on Tuesday for a criminal investigation to begin. ...

Former president Nicos Anastasiades went on the defensive on Tuesday, speaking for over an hour at journalists’ house in Nicosia fighting against allegations levelled at him in the anti-corruption authority’...

Archbishop Georgios insisted on Monday that the church had no involvement in the state land exchanges examined by the anti-corruption authority’s probe into the findings of the book Mafia ...

The full 3,000-page report of an investigation conducted by the anti-corruption authority into allegations made against former president Nicos Anastasiades and others by his former aide and journalist Makarios Drousiotis ...

Former president Nicos Anastasiades will hold a press conference next week regarding the anti-corruption authority’s findings in relation to their investigation into the book Mafia State. Earlier this week, ...

Journalist Makarios Drousiotis said on Thursday that the findings of the anti-corruption authority’s investigation into allegations contained in his book Mafia State had vindicated years of reporting, after the ...

Akel have demanded the immediate resignation of attorney-general George Savvides and his deputy Savvas Angelides despite their decision to recuse themselves from any involvement in the case. In secretary-general Stefanos ...

Eva Rossidou-Papakyriakou, the former head of Mokas, the police’s anti-money laundering unit, on Thursday denied all accusations made against her in the anti-corruption authority’s Mafia State report, saying ...

President Nikos Christodoulides is facing renewed pressure to demonstrate his independence from former president Nicos Anastasiades after the anti-corruption authority’s findings in the Mafia State case were formally expanded ...

Disy on Thursday called for the independent investigator who will be tasked with probing allegations of abuse of power made against former president Nicos Anastasiades in a report released by ...

Lawyer Achilleas Demetriades called for sweeping reforms to Cyprus’ anti-corruption framework, arguing that the independent anti-corruption authority must be given greater powers to act. Speaking on Wednesday, he further stressed ...

The government intends to appoint an independent investigator to probe allegations of abuse of power made against former president Nicos Anastasiades in a report released by the anti-corruption authority, its ...