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Lack of overseas sales slowing market recovery

Figures released by the Department of Lands and Surveys earlier today reveal that the lack of property sales to...
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Golden passports inquiry’s report published

Cyprus' Law Office has released the final report of the Inquiry Committee probe into the issuing of passports under...
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Punish golden passports crime

Last October, the international broadcaster Al Jazeera released a damning investigative report on how a convicted criminal can obtain...
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Cypriots believe their country most corrupt in EU

More Cypriots believe that corruption has increased in their country over the past year than their fellow European citizens. According...
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Cyprus files first golden passport prosecution

Cyprus has filed its first criminal prosecution in a disgraced citizenship by investment (aka golden passport) scheme abolished last...
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How Golden Passport providers cheated the system

The 515-page interim report into the disgraced Cyprus Citizenship by Investment (aka Golden Passport) scheme revealed that more than...
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Al Jazeera ‘Cyprus Papers’ up for BAFTA award

The Al Jazeera undercover documentary The Cyprus Papers that exposed some of the players involved in the island’s citizenship...
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Building violations linked to citizenship scheme

The audit service said Thursday state and local authorities had violated national and EU laws in allowing the construction...
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Damning citizenship by investment scheme report

More than half of about 3,000 citizenships granted by the state between 2007 and August 2020 as part of...
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Silver medal for residence permits

Cyprus finished in the silver medal position for issuing the second highest number of first residence permits to non-EU...
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Golden passports scheme ‘irrevocably terminated’

The controversial Citizenship-by-Investment (CBI) scheme is "definitively and irrevocably terminated", Interior Minister Nicos Nouris assured MPs on Monday, but...
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Investors rush to meet citizenship deadline

Days before Cyprus' Citizenship by Investment Programme is set to go offline, interior ministry officials and paralegals kicked things...
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EU citizenship must not be for sale

EU citizenship must not be for sale was the key message from European Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders, speaking...
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EC opens infringement for “selling” citizenship

Today, the European Commission is launching infringement procedures against Cyprus and Malta by issuing letters of formal notice regarding...
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Cypriot minister has one regret over passport scheme

Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides, who oversaw Cyprus' disgraced golden passport scheme while he was serving as interior minister, says...
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Cyprus ditches ‘golden passport’ scheme

Cyprus has announced it will abolish a controversial passport scheme following an investigation by Al Jazeera that revealed how...
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Al Jazeera in Cyprus passports ‘gotcha’ video

Cypriot parliament speaker Demetris Syllouris has lashed out at the Al Jazeera network, saying it tried to snare him...
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New storm brewing over ‘golden passports’

Cyprus Citizenship for Investment Scheme is under scrutiny once more following revelations the cabinet approved the naturalisation of 42...
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Passport revocation inquiries move forward

Cypriot authorities have identified seven individuals or foreign investors who could potentially be stripped of their Cypriot citizenship, after...
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EU vows to take aim at ‘golden visa’ programmes

For years, wealthy Chinese have made investments in Cyprus and Malta in exchange for European Union passports – so-called...
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