Russian businessman faces US trial for hack-and-trade scheme
A wealthy Russian businessman with ties to the Kremlin faces trial on Monday on U.S. charges that he participated in a vast scheme that generated tens of millions of dollars in illegal trading profits...
View Article‘Golden passport’ case will have to be refiled
Nicosia criminal court threw out the ‘golden passports’ case on Wednesday, citing a change in the court composition. As a result, the case will have to be refiled, but in the meantime, it has left all...
View ArticleUS actor Kevin Spacey is a ‘sexual bully’, London court told
Kevin Spacey is an aggressive “sexual bully” who assaults men and gets turned on when his unwanted advances provoke anger, a British prosecutor said on Friday at the start of the Oscar-winning U.S....
View ArticleKosovo court sentences former spy chief over Turkish arrests
A Kosovo court has sentenced the country’s former secret service chief to four years and eight months in prison for the arrest and extradition to Turkey of six Turkish nationals over a failed 2016 coup...
View ArticleTrial for killing of Turkish Cypriot teen postponed again
The trial of a man accused of killing 16-year-old Turkish Cypriot Zehie Helin Reessur in the north in January has been postponed again, this time until August 11 to facilitate more talks between the...
View ArticleTrial of suspect in Turkish Cypriot girl’s murder begins
The trial of Sefer Bugra Altundag, who stands accused of murdering 16-year-old Turkish Cypriot girl Zehie Helin Reessur in January, began in Trikomo on Wednesday. The trial had been adjourned for...
View ArticleAll charges dropped against lawyer in golden passports case
In a surprising twist on Wednesday, all charges against lawyer Andreas Pittadjis in the golden passports case were dropped at the Nicosia criminal court. He will now take on the role as defence lawyer...
View ArticleTrial of ‘insulting’ Turkish Cypriot journalist postponed for third time
The trial of Turkish Cypriot journalist Ali Kismir, who faces ten years in prison for “insulting” the Turkish Cypriot armed forces, was postponed for the third time on Monday. The trial was initially...
View ArticleTrial begins over hotel collapse that killed 35 Turkish Cypriots (updated)
The trial of 11 suspects held responsible for deaths of 24 Turkish Cypriot children and 11 of their teachers and coaches when a hotel they were staying in collapsed began on Wednesday. The Isias hotel...
View ArticleTrial of deadly New Year’s crash driver postponed
The trial of the driver of a pickup truck which crashed into another vehicle and killed its four occupants on New Year’s Eve was postponed on Thursday. The man’s lawyer requested that time be allowed...
View ArticleTurkish Cypriot conscientious objector trial postponed
The trial of Turkish Cypriot conscientious objector Halil Karapasaoglu, which was due to take place on Thursday, has been postponed to April 18. The north’s military court took the decision in light of...
View ArticleTrump loses bid to delay hush money trial pending gag order appeal
A New York state appeals judge on Tuesday denied Donald Trump’s bid to delay his April 15 trial on criminal charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star while the former U.S. president appeals...
View Article‘Time for criminal prosecutions over Thanasis Nicolaou’s murder’
It is now time for the state to begin preparing criminal prosecutions against those involved in the killing of Thanasis Nicolaou, investigator Savvas Matsas said on Monday. Speaking to the Cyprus News...
View ArticleMonks face ‘parody trial’ in monastery scandal, lawyers say
Lawyer Efstathios Efstathiou has objected to participating in the ecclesiastical trial against two monks, his clients, involved in the Osiou Avakoum monastery scandal, it emerged on Thursday....
View ArticleTrial of suspects in burning car murder case adjourned until December
The trial of the two men who stand accused of having murdered 39-year-old Andreas Kouzoupis and 38-year-old David Chmelar and then putting their bodies in a car which they then set on fire was on...
View ArticleCourt postpones property-usurpation trial yet again
Nicosia Criminal Court postponed the trial of Simon Aykut due to health reasons. The Israeli-Turkish businessman is accused of usurping Greek-Cypriot properties in the north. According to Aykut’s...
View ArticleCourt orders release of official accused of forgery with monetary guarantee
Former volunteer commissioner Yiannakis Yiannaki was released on Wednesday morning after being taken into custody for failing to appear at the Nicosia District Court during his scheduled hearing....
View ArticleSean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ lawyer seeks to undermine star prosecution’s rape claim...
A lawyer representing Sean “Diddy” Combs in the hip-hop mogul’s sex trafficking trial sought on Friday to undercut the claim of the prosecution’s star witness that Combs raped her in 2018. During a...
View ArticleTrial of Greek Cypriots arrested in the north to continue on Tuesday
The five elderly Greek Cypriots who were arrested for alleged espionage in the north on July 19 are due to appear before court in the north for the proceedings of their trial on Tuesday and Wednesday...
View ArticleCourt hears police testimony in trial over teen suicide case
Proceedings continued on Tuesday before the Nicosia district court in the trial concerning the death of 14-year-old Stylianos Konstantinos in 2019, with three police officers giving evidence for the...
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