Pafos Live 17 September 2024
On 14/9/2024, officers of the Department of Customs and Excise at the Ayios Dometios roadblock, during the inspection of a Turkish Cypriot vehicle, traveling from the occupied to the free areas of the Republic, found a quantity of pharmaceutical substances for horses.
Specifically, in the vehicle of the Turkish Cypriot driver, 118 bottles of 100ml each, intended for various pharmaceutical uses on racehorses, were found and confiscated, in violation of the Green Line Regulation.
The driver paid €1,500 for the out-of-court settlement of the offence.
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Filenews
A 42-year-old resident of Paphos, who had been wanted since July for burglary and theft cases between May and July, fell into the hands of the police at dawn. The 42-year-old was found during a traffic stop and burglary tools and drugs were found in his car, while he resisted arrest.
The suspect was located and arrested at 1.00 am today by members of the Police when he was stopped on a road in Paphos as part of traffic checks. Burglary tools and a small quantity of drugs were found in his vehicle, while the identification of the evidence revealed that a judicial arrest warrant was pending against him since the beginning of last July for burglaries of business premises and vehicles.
He was arrested and detained, while it is expected that the police will immediately register the case against him in court.
According to the evidence under investigation, the offences were committed between May 19, 2024 and July 07, 2024, in the Paphos district.
On July 8, Nicolaou added, a 25-year-old man reported that property worth a total of about €3,510, such as building power tools, had been stolen from a construction site of his company located in the Geroskipou area.
A car registered with a 42-year-old permanent resident of Cyprus was found at the scene. The search of the car in question, which had been abandoned at the scene, identified electrical building tools that were reasonably suspected to be stolen.
An arrest warrant was obtained against the 42-year-old for theft from a locked box for illegal possession of property, illegal possession of burglary tools found inside the vehicle and he was wanted.
Nicolaou went on to say that at one o'clock in the morning on Tuesday, following information that the man was travelling by vehicle on Evagorou Street in Paphos, police patrols rushed to the area. They spotted the vehicle and its driver allegedly tried to flee and crashed into a tree, bringing it to a standstill.
According to Mr. Nikolaou, the 42-year-old fled, was pursued, intercepted, resisted, but his arrest was achieved.
He also said he was found in possession of a small quantity of drugs resembling heroin weighing 1.5 grams as well as a substance resembling methamphetamine weighing 1.4 grams. In addition, two knives of a prohibited type and burglary tools were also found in his possession. A drug test he underwent also showed a positive indication.
The examinations are continued by the Paphos Police.
Pafos Live Update - The 42-year-old was wanted for two previously reported theft cases. For theft from a car and for theft of building tools. The Pafos district court issued a three-day detention order against him, and at its expiration he is expected to appear again in order to register the case for trial.
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New evidence comes to light following the dismantling of a large ring of illegal prescriptions of medicines in Greece involving doctors working in public hospitals and pharmacists.
As early as yesterday, the Greek police made arrests. But new revelations about this ring are coming to light. A general practitioner who should normally be at his post to examine patients at a health center in Boeotia where he was appointed was not there with patients looking for him and not finding him. According to a report in the Greek newspaper "Kathimerini", he not only lived in Cyprus but also worked as a doctor and travelled to Greece only to perform his monthly on-call duties.
At the same time, he is accused of issuing a number of false prescriptions, even to family members, or using AMKA of migrants, who had either been deported or were in detention centers. This doctor, according to the report, is alleged to be the main member of the criminal organization of fake prescriptions, dismantled by the Greek Financial Police.
The fraud lasted at least four years and EOPYY's damage is estimated to exceed €3.5 million.
How did they choose their victims?
As Konstantina Dimoglidou, spokeswoman of the Hellenic Police, told ERTNews, "the complaint came from the audit organization of EOPYY, as the members of the ring selected victims, in many quotation marks, such as citizens who were uninsured, had declared false information in their AMKA or were foreigners in structures."
The ring was committing fictitious prescriptions of pharmaceuticals, even medicines that were in short supply, denying access to citizens in real need. "Some of our fellow citizens, who really should have access to these preparations, could not obtain them because they were used in another way, making them available for a fee to citizens who had no right to take them," Demoglidou said. Their action even included drugs falling under the Narcotics Act, which increased the risk to the health of people who obtained them without a legal prescription. Unmute
A total of 17 people have been arrested, who have already been taken to the prosecutor and are expected to appear before the investigating judge tomorrow and the day after. The circuit is estimated to have been active for the past 4.5 years, with profits estimated at over €3.5 million." Enough money, more than €450,000, as well as gold bars and gold sovereigns were found among the members of the ring," Demoglidou said, noting that the ring was trying to hide its illegal profits in warehouses, pharmacies and homes.
The Financial Police do not stop the investigation here, as they are looking for additional evidence on the duration and extent of the ring's activity. At least 10 pharmacists and pharmacy employees have already been identified, as well as 4 doctors from public structures in Attica and Viotia, who appear to have participated in the network. The public officials involved have been informed of their services and the normal procedure is being followed against them.
The success of this dismantling is due, according to Ms Dimoglidou, to the excellent cooperation of the Hellenic Police. with other public organizations, such as the Municipality of Athens, the Ministry of Health and EOPYY. "The Financial Police managed to gather a wealth of investigative material, which proves the actions of the members of the ring for each one individually," he stressed.
kathimerini.gr, ertnews.gr
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Cyprus Mail
A 27-year-old man was arrested on Sunday after having reportedly drunkenly assaulted a female flight attendant on a flight bound for Cyprus.
The aircraft had departed the Turkish Aegean city of Izmir for the north’s Ercan (Tymbou) airport on Sunday morning.
The man reportedly “did not like the service” offered by the flight attendant and began swearing at her, before grabbing her right hand, squeezing it, and then hitting her.
He was then arrested upon arrival at Ercan (Tymbou) airport, where, it is reported, he continued to shout and cause a disturbance to those around him, while also “waving his arms about randomly”.
An alcohol test found his blood alcohol content level to be 277 milligrams per decilitre.
He appeared in court in northern Nicosia on Tuesday clutching a water bottle. There, a police representative explained that the man is a citizen of Turkey and has no ties to Cyprus.
Judge Nurary Necdet ordered that he be held in custody for a period not exceeding 20 days pending a trial.
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