Filenews 3 June 2024
The Police arrested two persons, aged 16 and 18, in connection with an investigated case of theft of an amount of money amounting to €6,400, which was reported to the ICF of Larnaka, last Thursday, May 30.
The two suspects were arrested on Sunday, pursuant to court warrants, while they were already in custody, following their arrest last Friday, for a number of other cases of theft, committed in the previous days, in the Famagusta district.
The theft of the large amount of money was reported to the ICF of Larnaka, a 42-year-old man. According to the complaint of the 42-year-old, last Thursday afternoon, the amount of €6,400 was stolen from his car, while the vehicle was parked in a car park, in an apartment building in Larnaca.
Examinations conducted by members of the Police revealed evidence against the 16-year-old and the 18-year-old. Judicial arrest warrants were issued against them, under which they were arrested yesterday and detained for the purpose of investigating the case.
The case is being investigated by the Larnaca ICF, while investigations continue by the Ayia Napa Police Station regarding six more cases of theft of property from parked vehicles, committed between May 25 and 30, in Ayia Napa, for which the 16-year-old and 18-year-old have also been arrested, pursuant to court warrants. In the six cases, two other persons, aged 25 and 17, were also arrested.
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In the context of investigating a case of telephone fraud involving persons pretending to be doctors, the Police proceeded yesterday afternoon to arrest a second person.
This is a 51-year-old man who was arrested on the basis of a court warrant pending against him since May 20, 2024. In relation to the above case, a 48-year-old man who was arrested on May 16, 2024, is in custody until the start of the hearing.
The case had been reported to the Police by a 72-year-old woman on May 8, 2024, according to which she received a call on the landline of her home from an unknown man, who introduced himself to her as a surgeon doctor of Nicosia General Hospital.
The suspect allegedly asked her for €57,000 for surgery, which her son, who was allegedly injured in an accident, needed to undergo, while a second person could be heard on the phone crying and telling her that he was her son and that he had an accident. A short time later, an unknown man went to the 72-year-old's house, where she threw a bag containing the sum of €52,000 from the balcony.
The 51-year-old was brought before the Nicosia District Court today, which issued a four-day detention order. Press Releases no. 1 day May 9, 2024 and no. 1 day May 16, 2024 is relevant.
The ICF Nicosia continues the examinations.
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The 29-year-old suspect ended up in the cell for a period of three days, who was arrested for three cases of obtaining credit from electronic machines issuing PaySafe cards, at kiosks in Limassol.
The suspect was brought before the Court today, which approved the Police's request. As philenews learns, the 29-year-old interrogated after her arrest confessed to committing the offences, giving as the brain behind the offence as her 29-year-old boyfriend.
As she said, the two went to kiosks in Limassol and the 29-year-old Bulgarian invented the codes of the electronic credit engine PaySafe and credited money to his accounts.
It should be noted that the 29-year-old foreigner is wanted by the Germasogeia Police Station.
According to a complaint filed with the police by a company that manages electronic money card issuing machines, last April, at three kiosks in Limassol, a sum of money over €500 was stolen from machines of the credit company (PaySafe).
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Pafos Live 4 June 2024
A young woman from Paphos who has mobility problems was swept away by a car late yesterday afternoon resulting in serious injuries.
The driver of the vehicle fled the scene, but was located in the evening and arrested. He is a 68-year-old Brit [some articles mention the age as 58]. According to police, the accident occurred about 15 minutes after 7 last night on Market Street.
The 28-year-old was attempting to cross the road when, under circumstances being investigated by police, she was swept away by a vehicle driven by the 68-year-old Briton. The 68-year-old left the girl injured and helpless and was transported by ambulance to Paphos hospital where she is being treated.
Her health condition is described as serious. Based on evidence and testimony obtained by the police, they issued a warrant for the arrest of the driver.
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A 40-year-old Greek Cypriot man was arrested last night by police after they spotted him driving after consuming a large amount of alcohol on a street in the Anavargos district.
In an alcohol test he underwent the reading was 152 instead of the 9 milligrams allowed for him. According to police, the driver had committed the same offence several times in the past and had even been given a three-year suspended sentence by the court.
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Driving under the influence of alcohol and / or drugs is the main cause of fatal road collisions in our country over the last four years.
However, despite this tragic finding, which emerges through the statistics of the Traffic Police, every day many drivers are found to be driving either having consumed large quantities of alcohol, or having used drugs, or having used both alcohol and drugs.
Last night, members of the Police made six complaints of drivers, who were found to be driving either under the influence of alcohol or under the influence of drugs. One of them, having in his body many times the amount of alcohol, than the permissible limit, was involved in a road collision, which resulted in a slight injury to a cyclist. A second driver was arrested after he was found to have 16 times the permitted amount of alcohol in his system.
The road collision happened around 8 p.m. yesterday, at the junction of Christodoulou, Sozou and Agiou Andreou streets, in Limassol. A car driven by a 33-year-old man on a one-way street under circumstances that are being investigated collided with a bicycle driven by a 42-year-old.
From the collision, the 42-year-old cyclist was slightly injured. He was taken to a private clinic, where he received first aid and was discharged.
The 33-year-old driver of the car underwent an alcohol test, with a lower final reading of 96μg%, instead of 9μg%, which is the permissible limit. At the same time, the continuation of the examinations revealed that the 33-year-old was driving his vehicle with a deprived student driving license and without being covered by an insurance certificate. Therefore, the 33-year-old was arrested and detained.
The circumstances of the road collision are being investigated by the Limassol Traffic Police.
A short time later, at around 8.50pm, members of Team Z, of the Pafos Traffic Police, stopped a car moving on a Paphos road for inspection. The driver of the vehicle was a 64-year-old resident of Paphos, who tested positive in a preliminary alcohol test.
He was taken to the premises of the Pafos Traffic Police, where he underwent a final alcohol test, with a lower final reading of 152μg%, instead of 9μg%, since three years have not elapsed since the date of deprivation of his driver's license. The 64-year-old was charged in writing and will be summoned to court.
The Paphos Traffic Police is investigating the case.
The consumption of alcoholic beverages or the use of drugs before driving, reduces the driver's ability to concentrate, while increasing his reaction time to any danger that may occur. Thus, the risk of being involved in a road collision increases dramatically, threatening both his own safety and the safety of other road users.
For this reason, the Police continue their daily checks, throughout the road network of Cyprus, to identify drivers under the influence of alcohol or drugs and remove them from the road.
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Last Saturday (1/6), the British Bases Police arrested a person who has been involved with the authorities several times. The 50-year-old's homestead had been turned into a drug processing business.
The operation took place last Saturday and involved about 100 members of the Bases Police. Earlier, the authorities had received relevant information that in certain premises, there were quantities of drugs and weapons.
The members of the Force searched, according to philenews, three premises in Trachoni, an area that falls under the jurisdiction of the British Bases. In one of them, traces of drugs were found, as well as evidence leading to the conclusion that drugs, specifically cocaine, were being processed there.
In addition to narcotics, an old weapon was found in this premises, which was received for examinations and ballistic testing, in order to determine whether it has been used in a criminal act.
The Bases Police proceeded to the arrest of a person who is known and has previously been investigated by the Northern Bases and the Cyprus Police. In fact, the 50-year-old during the investigations and his arrest, became violent, resulting in the Police using a taser to immobilize him.
The 50-year-old, as philenews knows, appeared this morning before the Bases Court where he was released on restrictive conditions and bail. The authorities' investigations are ongoing, while dozens of pieces of evidence have been received for scientific and other examinations.
The case was brought to light by omegalive.
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There are many cases where the Police and by extension the Court have concerned a doctor, a neurosurgeon in the specialty, who seems to have made fraud against his patients and the Health System itself a science.
The Nicosia District Court, after a hearing that lasted for a long time, found the neurosurgeon doctor and his wife guilty on a total of 10 charges relating to abuse of power, deceit and abuse of trust by a public official, obtaining goods by false representations, fraud, obtaining and money laundering.
This is the case that came to light in May 2016 after a complaint by a 70-year-old patient at the time, who was going to undergo surgery for a valve placement in the brain. According to the facts, the accused neurosurgeon at Nicosia General Hospital (1st class emergency medical officer) He persuaded his surgical patient and her relatives to pay €1,500 to buy a specific brain magnetic valve from his wife's company (defendant 2), presenting the valve as better than the one supplied by the hospital free of charge and supposedly used during the patient's operation, due to hydrocephalus. The valve, according to the findings of the Court and the testimonies, was purchased but was never used in the operating room nor was the knowledge of the other doctors that there was a second spare valve.
The case was heard in the Nicosia District Court by the senior district judge, Xenis Xenofontos, concluding through his multi-page decision that the Prosecution proved the case against both defendants, convicting them for the aforementioned serious offences. The case was handled on behalf of the Attorney General by the public prosecutor, Christina Themistokleous.
Among the findings of the Court it is noted that the accused doctor knew and accepted that the valves available at Nicosia General Hospital were among the best and most modern of their kind and were available free of charge. The valves in question are made available by a company other than that of the defendant's wife to the Hospital, through a public contract. In the ruling, the Court said, among other things, that the relatives of the 70-year-old patient gave €1,500 under very strange circumstances, as if it were "drug trafficking" in a parking lot, without issuing a receipt or invoice. The defendant urged relatives to pay in cash and then pleaded with relatives to "show confidentiality." He gave his wife's phone number to arrange the alleged purchase of the valve, but did not inform them.
Among other things, the Court notes that "it was evident that there was full understanding between them. No one saw the purchased valve and no one learned about it at the hospital. I conclude that the fact that it was never given to the defendant since possession of it was not mentioned by him at any time and by any third party."
The Court's reference to the existence of the second valve is characteristic. "How would it be used without anyone knowing of its existence? The defendant would take it out of his pocket as a surprise and suddenly "roll" it to M.K. 19, telling him "here I have a second new valve?!".
The reports of the relatives who filed the complaint with the court when they were giving testimony, the defendant not only accepted them as they were put, but accepted them during his face-to-face testimony. But he claimed to justify it, saying it was aimed at ordinary people who would not understand otherwise. "But if the claim he made during the trial that they needed a second valve for safety purposes is true, why would he present them with anything different? What is the complexity that can exist and not be realized by an ordinary person in that only one valve exists and may need a second one which is not available and must be secured as an alternate immediately, even at the expense of a person? What was such a (seemingly unsubstantiated) scenario incomprehensible and needed to tell the surgeon and her relatives that the hospital did not have a magnetic valve and they had to buy a suitable one from the private sector? So there is no logic in the accused's claim," the judge said.
After the conviction of the doctor and his wife, the case was set for mitigation speeches in the near future.
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An incredible incident took place yesterday morning on the central Makarios Avenue in Limassol, in the well-known lights of the NAAFI, with citizens watching scenes taken from a police movie.
A female eyewitness described what she and her two-year-old child experienced, along with other unsuspecting citizens, while on one of the city's main streets.
According to the complainant, around 10:30 and while waiting at the NAAFI traffic lights, suddenly two motorcycles, food distributors, stopped in the middle of the road, with the passenger of the first motorcycle getting off, opening the food box and retrieving a cleaver, attempting to attack the two foreigners of the second motorcycle.
"What we experienced cannot be described in words. He took the cleaver and began chasing the foreigners in order to injure them in the neck and body. All this is happening inside the main road and with the citizens not knowing what to do," the eyewitness said. At the same time, it raises several questions regarding the safety of citizens when such incidents are recorded on a main street of Limassol.
philenews contacted the Limassol Police Department and as we were told, the incident is under investigation. The two Pakistanis involved went to St. John's Police Station to give a statement. There were no injuries from the incident and the foreigners did not file a complaint, saying they had no complaints.
The Police proceeded to arrest one person for illegal stay in the territory of the Republic. As for the motives of the case, it seems that the Pakistanis have differences on some issues with other groups of their compatriots, since reports indicate that they quarrelled in the previous days.
Investigations into the incident are ongoing and no offensive instrument has been identified for the time being. Investigators in the case are evaluating CCTV in the area to determine exactly what happened and are seeking further testimony. They also call on citizens who became aware of the incident to file a complaint.
