Costas Clerides

Cyprus' top lawyer said Tuesday he has ordered a criminal probe into how police handled the country's first serial killer investigation, which led to the conviction of an army officer for the murders of seven foreign women and girls.

Attorney General Costas Clerides said in a statement that 15 members of the force may have breached the law or been negligent in their duty.

Two overseas Cypriot students are challenging a ban on incoming flights from 28 countries imposed by the government in Nicosia on March 21 in response to the coronavirus epidemic, as they try to get back home, Cyprus media reported on Thursday.

Cyprus' attorney general says he's found no indication that a senior Orthodox Christian cleric broke the law by making widely-condemned remarks about homosexuality.

Cyprus's attorney general has weighed into a growing feud with supreme court judges, backing his lawyer brother who alleged that the judges' familial and professional links to a law firm that handled cases involving the country's biggest bank may have led to favorable rulings.

One of Cyprus?s most senior prosecutors is under investigation for graft based on the findings of an independent criminal investigator, the island?s attorney-general said on Tuesday.

Attorney-General Costas Clerides said an independent probe suggested his deputy, Rikkos Erotocritou, was liable to have accepted bribes in 2013.

[Reuters]

Two former chairmen and three other one-time top executives of the Bank of Cyprus are being charged in connection with the economic meltdown that forced Nicosia to seek a painful international bailout.