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By Stelios Orphanides
Attorney-general Costas Clerides said on Monday he decided to transfer senior attorney Eleni Loizidou from the Law Office’s department
By Stelios Orphanides
The Cypriot government objected to a request filed by Hermitage Capital’s founder Bill Browder for an emergency injunction barring Cyprus from cooperating with Russia in a probe against him, citing also
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By Stelios Orphanides
Hellenic Bank, Cyprus’s third largest lender, is offering its workers a voluntary retirement scheme in an attempt to cut cost which could have an
By Stelios Orphanides
Nine months after the government and the unions agreed that Cyprus Tourism Organisation (CTO) workers will not see their benefits affected after being transformed from a semi-governmental office into a junior
By Stelios Orphanides
Bank of Cyprus’s former vice president Wilbur Ross, appointed secretary of commerce by US President Donald Trump earlier this year, may not be as wealthy as initially thought, a report on
By Stelios Orphanides
The Paradise Papers, the new data leaked from the Bermuda-based Appleby law firm, so far show that Cyprus has played only a limited role in the efforts by world politicians, celebrities,
By Stelios Orphanides
The Nicosia District Court on Monday extended the Law Office’s deadline to file a complementary objection to Hermitage Capital founder Bill Browder’s request for an emergency injunction.
Judge Ioannes Ioannides decided
By Stelios Orphanides
A new major leak of documents, dubbed the ‘Paradise Papers’, show how politicians, including heads of governments and states and their family members, entrepreneurs, companies and celebrities set up offshore companies
By Stelios Orphanides
US authorities have informally told Cyprus they are interested in sending officials to the island to conduct investigations into Paul Manafort’s case as part of a third request for legal assistance,
By Stelios Orphanides
Justice and Public Order Minister Ionas Nicolaou said that an increase in convictions for cases concerning money laundering proves that Cyprus’ framework for the problem is improving.
“From 2011 to 2015,
By Stelios Orphanides
The chairman of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Cyprus (ICPAC) said that competing financial sectors were behind reports in international media linking the island to money laundering.
By Stelios Orphanides
A US appeals court rejected the application of the owners of Tanzania’s FBME Bank for a rehearing of their rejected appeal on Tuesday.
“Upon consideration of the appellant’s petition for panel
By Stelios Orphanides
Cypriot authorities are not involved in any current investigation although they have aided the US in their investigation into Paul Manafort, US President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, the attorney general
By Stelios Orphanides
The former head of the University of Cyprus’s Economic Research Centre (ERC), Panos Pashardes, passed away on Sunday at the age of 68.
The late professor who acquired his degree in
By Stelios Orphanides
George Papadopoulos, one of Donald Trump’s campaign advisers during last year’s presidential campaign, who has pleaded guilty to charges of lying to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), is not
By Stelios Orphanides
Three days after Interpol dismissed for the fifth time a Russian arrest warrant against Hermitage Capital founder Bill Browder, a group of European Parliament deputies urged Cyprus, the single EU state
By Stelios Orphanides
The owners of the Tanzania-based FBME Bank filed a petition at a US court requesting a fresh hearing of an appeal, which was rejected because the holding company, FBME Ltd, could
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By Stelios Orphanides
A British lawmaker’s allegations that Cyprus “actively” obstructs a global money laundering investigation involving Russia, and the UK
