NewZealander joins Limassol fraud list

A 38-year old person from New Zealand has filed a complaint with police claiming that the Limassol lawyer who has defrauded up to nine persons so far also took money from him for investments, which have since disappeared.

The New Zealand citizen said the Limassol lawyer, Marios Shaylis took from him the amount of CYP 205.000 in September 2004 to invest in various investments, but has failed to return the capital and the promised returns. Police are searching for the Limassol lawyer to respond to claims from up to nine other persons in what could become one of the best scam schemes ever made here.

Last week a ninth victim, a Briton accused the Limassol lawyer of stealing CYP 170.000 from him.  Last month, the lawyer went on the run with nearly two million pounds after clearing as many of his client’s accounts as he could over a three-month period. He is also accused of destroying his law office just before he disappeared with his wife and baby girl in mid-September in order to get rid of any evidence along with photographs of himself.
Interpol has issued an international warrant for his arrest, with a sergeant working on the case with Limassol CID telling the Cyprus Mail that he was confident that Shaylis would eventually be brought to justice. “According to confidential information that we have gathered from various sources, he has fled to a non-EU country, possibly somewhere in the Balkans. We are working closely with international law enforcement agencies and I’m sure that he will be caught.”