According to the Bar Association, some of Cyprus’ largest law firms lacked due diligence checks on foreign investors granted a Cypriot passport via the now defunct Citizenship for Investment scheme. In comments
Cyprus police have their hands full with suspect golden passport cases, as the heat is on government officials and politicians who allegedly facilitated dubious foreign investors with Cypriot citizenship. According to reports,
The saga of Cyprus’ defunct Citizenship for Investment scheme is again on the House agenda, following the Auditor General’s report that €220 mln was lost due to a possible criminal lack of
The Citizenship for Investment scheme was “rotten” to its core, while several actions of government officials could constitute criminal acts, said the Audit Office on Monday. Releasing an almost 200-page dossier containing
Cyprus will prosecute four people accused of selling Cypriot passports for cash, exposed by an Al Jazeera sting that ended the island’s lucrative citizenship for investment scheme. On Thursday, Attorney General, George
A prominent Famagusta lawyer, implicated in Al Jazeera’s golden passport scandal expose, which ended the citizenship for investment scheme, was fined €4,000 by the Cyprus Bar Association for demeaning the profession. Andreas
Four dubious Russian oligarchs with close ties to President Vladimir Putin have obtained a Cypriot passport, according to a Cyprus Green MP, calling on authorities to revoke their citizenship. Green MP Alexandra
The case of a Vietnamese who allegedly acquired a Cypriot golden passport while in custody in his home country has authorities in a tangle. Cyprus legal services are investigating allegations that a
Cyprus will revoke the passports of four European Union sanctioned Russians over Ukraine, taking the total to eight who received citizenship under a disgraced investment scheme, Cypriot officials said Wednesday. A cabinet
Some 21 Russians holding a ‘golden passport’ will be stripped of their Cypriot nationality due to sanctions imposed by the European Union on Russia for invading Ukraine. The government has decided to
