Filenews 12 March 2024
The case with the transfer of millions of euros to Cyprus by a Ukrainian woman may have been registered with the Court with referral for trial to the Larnaka Assize Court, but the investigations of the authorities have not stopped.
The competent authorities are looking for the source of the money and the final recipient in Cyprus. "F" reports that police know who gave the money to the 31-year-old to transport in instalments to Cyprus, but do not currently know to whom it ended up. According to the same information, the source of the money is not Ukraine but another nearby country and by a person known to the authorities.
According to the same information, a decree has been secured to disclose the Ukrainian woman's telecommunications data in an effort to identify who she was in contact with in Cyprus, in order to form a pattern of how the money was moved until it reached the final recipient.
As "F" wrote, one scenario being considered is that the money ended up in a bank in the occupied areas or was given here to persons connected to the sender. What is certain is that they were not used for the purpose they were declared.
The Unit for Combating Cover-Up Offences is also investigating, where foreign authorities are searching the route of the Ukrainian woman.
The 31-year-old faces a total of 60 charges, three in 20 separate cases, and the offences include conspiracy to defraud, money laundering and false statements.
The offences were allegedly committed between August 2023 and March 1, 2024 and concern the transfer to Cyprus of a total amount of €7,832,400.
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Larnaca district court on Tuesday handed a seven-year prison sentence to a 30-year-old man found guilty of child sexual abuse.
A police report said that “according to the evidence gathered during the investigation of the case, the offence was committed in August 2023, in Larnaca”.
The 30-year-old was found guilty of the crime and jailed for seven years, it added.
The case was investigated by the police force’s vulnerable person task force.
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Police are investigating a fraud case following a 60-year-old man's complaint that a suspicious wife stole a total amount of money of €55,450 online.
According to the complainant, between the years 2020-2021, he received a message on his mobile phone through a specific application from a female resident abroad, who told him that a relative of hers was sick and asked him for money.
According to the 60-year-old, the woman in question managed to extort the above amount of money, which he sent her on 14 different occasions.
The ICF Limassol is investigating the case.
