https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/president-defends-block-on-audit-office
President Nicos Anastasiades invoked the Constitution during a televised interview, saying the job description of the auditor general, who is currently seeking information on foreign nationals linked to a casino project, does not authorize him to 'have a say in everything'...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/police-get-to-work-on-passport-scandal
Cypriot police appear to have their plate full with three different probes into alleged corruption in the golden passport scheme, with investigators facing their biggest challenge by a shocking Al Jazeera video that dealt the fatal blow in the country’s Citizenship by Investment Programme...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cypriot-minister-has-one-regret-over-passports
Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides, who oversaw Cyprus' disgraced golden passport scheme while he was serving as interior minister, says he should have pushed harder to end the program much sooner...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/father-of-the-house-calls-for-calm
AKEL MP Adamos Adamou became the Republic of Cyprus’ new House Speaker on Friday, as well as acting president, following the resignation of Demetris Syllouris amid a passport scandal and a pending investigation...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/game-plan-to-circumvent-passport-rules
Meme culture enthusiasts in Cyprus upped their game this week following a passport scandal reported by Al Jazeera, with catchphrases such as “this is Cyprus” and name dodging tricks seen in a secret video prompting media to spot five ways a lawyer could circumvent the system in the golden passport scheme...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/ag-recent-revelations-shameful-for-cyprus
Everything we’ve witnessed, regardless of their legal dimensions, bring shame to Cyprus, attorney general George Savvides said Thursday....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/house-speaker-resigns-over-passport-scandal
House Speaker Demetris Syllouris resigned on Thursday following public outcry over his involvement in a golden passport scandal exposed by Al Jazeera...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cypriots-rise-up-against-corruption
A crowd of protesters gathered outside Filoxenia Conference Centre in Nicosia on Wednesday evening, calling on House Speaker Demitris Syllouris to resign after he was featured in an Al Jazeera undercover story on corruption...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/syllouris-accepts-waiving-of-his-parliamentary-immunity
President of the Cyprus Parliament Demetris Syllouris said Wednesday that he won’t stand in the way of his parliamentary immunity being waved to accommodate a probe launched by local police after a fresh batch of Al Jazeera allegations situated him at the epicentre of a massive corruption scandal involving the island’s golden passports scheme....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/judge-in-cypriot-passport-probe-resigns
Retired Supreme Court Judge Costas Pampallis has resigned from his position as a member of an indepednent investigative committee, a team that was tasked to sift through Cyprus’ golden passport scheme in the wake of corruption scandals and systemic failures...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/mokas-refutes-lawyer-s-claim-in-passport-scandal
The Republic of Cyprus’ Unit for Combating Money Laundering (MOKAS) has weighed in on the passport scandal following Al Jazeera’s earth-shuttering investigative report on corruption in the island’s Citizenship by Investment programme...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/police-launch-probe-against-al-jazeera-operation
The state attorney ordered a probe following a complaint filed by high-profile Cypriot officials targeted by an Al Jazeera secret investigation on corruption, with members of the public outraged as more shocking revelations emerged in a new Cyprus Papers video...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/passport-revocation-inquiries-move-forward
Cypriot authorities have identified seven individuals or foreign investors who could potentially be stripped of their Cypriot citizenship, after an internal probe pointed to forged documents or misleading information during the golden passport application process...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/passports-under-the-watchful-eye-of-the-commission
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/politics-turn-ugly-over-cyprus-papers
The main left party opposition in the Republic of Cyprus is firing back at the government, after reports emerged over threats and a confidential letter about Cypriot golden passports a decade earlier...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/opinion/curtain-rising-for-citizenship-by-investment-program
The Presidency has before it four scenarios for dealing with the issue of purchased citizenships. The most likely possibility is that of suspending the investment program for a short period, as revealed by Kathimerini on Sunday....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/north-uneasy-as-coronavirus-cases-spiral-in-turkey
After easing restriction measures on June 1, Turkey appears to be once again faced with the nightmare of soaring numbers of new coronavirus cases....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/jho-low-reportedly-spotted-in-wuhan
Malaysian fugitive financier Jho Low, whose Cypriot passport came under scrutiny last year, has been spotted in China’s Wuhan, a city under lockdown due to the Coronavirus...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-police-weighs-in-on-match-fixing
Cypriot police say they knew last year about a possible involvement of specific individuals rigging the Beautiful Game but could not act citing phone privacy concerns...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/jho-low-denies-central-role-in-1mdb-scandal
Malaysian fugitive financier Jho Low, whose Cypriot passport came under scrutiny last year, says he was not the mastermind of the 1MDB scandal while confirming rumours he was offered asylum in an unnamed country...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/jho-low-movie-gaining-popularity
A film about Malaysian financier and Cypriot passport holder Jho Low has been steadily gaining popularity, despite legal challenges over copyright infringement and potential defamation lawsuits...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/trump-impeachment-inquiry-begins
Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday launched a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, accusing him of seeking foreign help to smear Democratic rival Joe Biden ahead of next year’s election...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/two-women-at-the-top-of-eu-decision-making
Under the deal, Ursula von der Leyen, a close ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, will replace Jean-Claude Juncker as president of the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/opinion/the-liberal-narrative-and-the-risks
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/genius-or-joker
Loose cannon or influential statesman - what kind of British prime minister would Boris Johnson make on the world stage? Judging by his time as foreign secretary, possibly both...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/johnson-and-hunt-fight-for-british-pm-job
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/facebook-to-launch-cryptocurrency-called-libra
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/ahrweiler-history-that-teaches-only-one-solution-is-a-dangerous-thing
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/eu-vote-across-europe
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/agia-fyla-co-op-scandal-ends-with-acquittals
Four defendants in the Agia Fyla credit union scandal have been acquitted on all charges, with criminal judges citing failure on the part of the police to prosecute the case...