Filenews 18 May 2023
At midnight on July 15-16, 2022, a foreign resident of the tourist area of Pervolia reported to the Kition Police Station that 100 thousand US dollars in cash, €40 – 50,000 in banknotes and various gold items of a total value of €82,000 had been stolen from his home. According to the complainant and police examinations, suspicions were raised against his 53-year-old Bulgarian cook, who had been hired in early June 2022. Police examinations found that on July 15, the 53-year-old left the house where he was employed at one o'clock in the afternoon while completing his work at seven in the evening.
Police examinations followed to locate the suspect but to no avail, while on July 16 a warrant was secured, his details were placed on the Stop List and his photo was made public. The 53-year-old was found to have passed through the Ayios Dometios barricade in Nicosia at around 2.30pm on July 15. Around seven o'clock in the evening of July 16, in cooperation with the company that had rented the car, the vehicle was located near the barricade of Agios Dometios.
The car was opened with second keys and in a subsequent search, earrings and other jewelry, worth about seven thousand euros, were found, which were identified by the complainant's wife. Police issued a European arrest warrant and on September 2, 2022, the suspect was located and arrested in Tbilisi, Georgia. In April this year, the Georgian authorities notified the Larnaka Police Directorate in order to start the procedures for police officers to travel to the country to pick up the 53-year-old.
At around 9.30 am on Wednesday 17 May, two members of the Larnaca Police arrived at Larnaka airport with the suspect and with evidence that had been found in his possession at the time of his arrest in Tbilisi. Today, the 53-year-old was brought before the Larnaca District Court, which issued a detention order against him for six days. The Kition Police Station continues the examinations.
