https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/it-s-raining-money-hallelujah
Whoever said it never rains in Southern California didn't expect a shower of money to rain down on a California highway....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/brutal-poacher-attack-heads-to-house-committee
A reported attack in rural Famagusta against a conservation activist, who told police he was assaulted by suspected illegal poachers in the dead of night, caught the attention of a House member who says she will raise the issue before the internal affairs committee...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cops-bust-marijuana-grow-in-limassol
Three persons in Limassol have been arrested following a raid at an abandoned shop where drug squad officers uncovered an elaborate grow operation of illegal marijuana...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/sneaky-accountant-admits-draining-company-funds
A woman in Limassol is promising to return stolen money after she was arrested on suspicion of forging company checks and signing them over to herself for a total over €315,000...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/reporter-says-low-wanted-to-buy-a-cypriot-bank
A British investigative journalist told an audience in Nicosia that Cypriot-naturalized financier Jho Low had tried to use contacts with Kuwaitis to buy a bank on the island where the Malaysian fugitive could launder stolen money...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/teens-wreak-havoc-on-holy-thursday
Four teenagers were arrested on Friday morning in connection with a group delinquency incident in Limassol, where youths started fires near a local church and then attacked fire fighters and police officers who rushed to the scene...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/emails-from-cyprus-connect-dots-on-jho-low
New information published by OCCRP suggests that Henley & Partners identified Jho Low as a high-risk client but worked with him anyway through a Cypriot company to get him a golden passport...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cypriot-hacker-pleads-guilty-in-atlanta
A Filipino-Cypriot young man who was extradited to the United States last year on cyber crime charges has pleaded guilty after reaching a plea agreement with federal prosecutors...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/man-accused-of-stealing-dying-patient-s-credit-card
A hospital employee was arrested on Sunday after the wife a male patient, who died recently in Limassol’s Intensive Care Unit, told police her husband’s credit card had been stolen...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/foreign-dwellers-cramped-in-5x5-units-in-paphos
Paphos Mayor Phedonas Phedonos has pointed the finger at white collar crimes after a “shocking experience” Monday night when he saw first-hand foreign nationals living in poor conditions in violation of city ordinances...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/purse-snatcher-in-paphos-faces-judge
A young man suspected of snatching a woman’s purse at a bus stop and running away in Paphos is expected to appear before a judge for a remand hearing...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/woman-in-white-collar-scheme-not-talking
Police investigators are fishing out more details in a while collar crime in Limassol, where a woman accused of embezzling over €1 million was said not to be cooperating with police...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/police-seize-scrap-wood-for-easter-bonfires
Local crews in Nicosia’s Strovolos municipality have been busy removing scrap wood stashed away in abandoned buildings in an effort to crack down on illegal lambradjia bonfires on upcoming Holy Saturday...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/police-catch-man-who-stole-from-victim-of-sunday-s-fatal-stabbing
Following the arrest of one of the two assailants who fatally stabbed Ahmed Bin Talib, 24, on Sunday in downtown Nicosia, police have reportedly arrested a second man who was captured by camera footable stealing a €50 note from the dead man’s pocket....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/government-ups-the-ante-on-spiftire-impasse
The Republic of Cyprus has already decided on measures to be taken in the event that the UN fails to resolve the Spitfire Café impasse between the Nicosia Municipality and the Turkish military....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/man-gets-20-years-for-killing-grandpa-kokos
The man who was convicted for killing beloved Grandpa Kokos in Larnaca last year has been sentenced to 20 years in prison...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/north-cries-foul-over-spitfire-operation
Turkish Cypriot officials in north Nicosia are accusing city crew maintenance in the south of sneaking into the buffer and stealing a number of items with UNFICYP weighing in and calling on involved parties to back away from the iconic Spitfire Cafe...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/pensioner-suing-convicted-‘fixer-lawyer
A female pensioner, who was swindled out of 350 grand while seeking promotion in the civil service through a back-channel, is suing her former lawyer after he was sentenced to two years for defrauding her...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/nicosia-s-yazuz-suspicions-point-to-online-leak
Cypriot officials at the Department of Environment say an entire study, which was inadvertently posted online in 2017, might have given Ankara a leg-up in the search for gas off the coast of Limassol...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/drugs-behind-ugly-beat-down-in-ayia-napa
A suspected drug dealer who was arrested Thursday in Ayia Napa reportedly had locked two younger men in an apartment and gave them a beat-down for failing to pay up...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/trump-s-yuan-move-makes-a-china-deal-much-harder
The decision to label China a currency manipulator boxes in Donald Trump and Xi Jinping. The U.S. Treasury Department made the move after Beijing allowed the yuan to slide below the key level of 7 to the dollar. It’s the first such designation for the People’s Republic since 1994. The sudden escalation will make it harder for both sides to reach a trade truce...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/two-arrested-in-food-stamp-scam
A civil servant and another person were remanded in custody on Thursday, in connection with a suspected scam over food stamps and rent vouchers destined for foreign low-income beneficiaries...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/bank-employee-arrested-for-stealing-€185-000
A former bank employee has been arrested by Limassol police after an internal audit reportedly discovered suspicious patterns and anomalies in connection with customers’ bank accounts...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/woman-accused-of-stealing-from-employer
A former employee at a company in Paphos has been arrested on fraud charges, accused of issuing fake receipts and pocketing over 10 grand...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cypriots-prepare-for-easter
Easter may be a thing from last week in some parts of the world, but it is almost the end of Holy Week in the Republic Cyprus where people get ready for Saturday midnight mass and Easter Sunday celebrations...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cop-arrested-for-stealing-money-from-returned-wallet
A police officer was detained over the weekend suspected of stealing money from a lost-and-found wallet after a Good Samaritan had turned it in...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/limassol-woman-arrested-for-cooking-the-books
A woman in Limassol has been arrested on embezzlement charges in connection with document fraud and money theft from a company...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/officer-caught-with-items-seized-by-airport-security
A police officer en route to Kenya was detained at Larnaca International Airport, after colleagues from internal affairs suspected he was pocketing items confiscated from passengers...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/indian-housemaid-in-nicosia-hung-out-to-dry
A female housemaid from India was ordered to pay a €500 fine after a judge found her guilty of stealing €20 from her employers, a charge she vehemently denies to this day...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/bad-samaritan-arrested-in-paphos
A Bulgarian male has been arrested on theft charges after police received a complaint from a man who lost three grand at a bakery in Paphos....
