Pafos Live 21 September 2024
A new fatal traffic accident, with victim 16-year-old Charalambos Pissarides, occurred yesterday, in the area of Pano Polemidia in Limassol.
According to police, under circumstances that are being investigated, the 16-year-old lost control of the motorcycle he was driving, causing it to overturn and crash into a tree.
The minor was taken by ambulance to Limassol General Hospital, where doctors on duty pronounced him dead.
According to police, the motorcycle was not found at the scene and investigations are underway to locate it.
Update - Filenews
Police are asking the public for information about the new fatality that occurred on Friday.
In the fatal collision that occurred at noon in Limassol, Charalambos Pissarides, aged 16.5 years, formerly from Limassol, lost his life.
The police appeal to anyone who knows anything about this to contact the Traffic Police at 25805252, 25805591 or the Citizen's Line 1460 or the nearest Police Station.
According to the evidence under examination, at around 2.30pm, a large displacement motorcycle, driven by Pissarides on Famagusta Street, in Pano Polemidia, under circumstances that are being investigated, deviated from its course, climbed a pavement, first collided with a traffic sign pole and then with a tree, where it was immobilized.
Filenews reports that the police have obtained testimonies that people with a double-cab vehicle loaded the large displacement motorcycle driven by the minor victim and moved it.
Besides, as the assistant officer of the Limassol Traffic Police, Emilios Kafas, stated earlier from the scene, "we are at an early stage of investigations and all possibilities are being investigated as to how the accident took place".
From preliminary examinations made at the scene, the motorcycle appears to have moved to an unknown place and efforts are being made to locate it.
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Filenews
A firecracker explosion occurred at dawn outside a residential garage in Limassol, causing no damage as its owner extinguished the fire caused by the explosion before it spread. Police are looking for one person.
The explosion occurred a few minutes after two in the morning, outside the garage of a 48-year-old residence in the area of Agia Fyla.
Members of the Police went to the scene and the investigations found that the explosion was due to the detonation of a firecracker which was reinforced with flammable material. Despite the fact that a fire was caused after the explosion, however, no damage was caused as the owner managed to extinguish the fire before it spread.
From the CCTV images of the complainant's premises, it was found that the firecracker was thrown by a person who was riding a large motorcycle. In his testimony, the complainant expressed suspicions against a 57-year-old man with whom he has financial differences.
An arrest warrant has been issued against him and he is wanted, while police investigations continue intensively.
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A serious case of fraud by a Greek Cypriot businessman with activities in the real estate sector is being examined by the Cyprus Police. The complainants in this case are Israeli investors.
The complaint, according to "F's" information, was officially made in the first week of September through an Israeli lawyer on our island and alleges that the Greek Cypriot businessman defrauded persons from the neighbouring country, in the context of a real estate investment.
In particular, they accuse him of fraudulently obtaining large sums of money from investors. More specifically, always on the basis of the allegations against him, the Greek Cypriot presented false receipts concerning actions through the Larnaka Land Registry, so that the funds of the Israeli investors were released and came into his possession.
However, as the complainants allege, not only was the money not available for the purpose of the investment, but it was used by the entrepreneur for other projects.
The investors who raised the above positions through their lawyer before the Larnaca Crime Detection Department at the beginning of the month, accompany their complaint with a large number of documents to substantiate their claims. There are four complainants, while the total amount they claim was obtained by false representations reaches €3 million.
Our information indicates that the offences being investigated are the following:
> Securing money by false representations.
> Forgery.
> Circulation of forged documents.
> Money laundering.
The complaint, as we are aware, includes specific references to the agreement and its alleged violation by forgery and other unlawful practices by the complainant.
An Israeli lawyer who filed the complaint on behalf of the complainants gave details of how the businessman and his associates acted.
According to him, the investors had agreed with the businessman that the money for the investment in Larnaca would initially be deposited in an escrow account in Israel.
When the investors' lawyer received from the Greek Cypriot land developer necessary attestation documents from the Larnaca Land Registry, then he released the amounts and sent them to him in the form of a remittance and more specifically to the "selling company".
According to the complaint, two employees of the businessman from Cyprus, who are named, also participated in this process, while at the same time their exact role in the case is determined.
However, the Israelis' lawyer suspected that something was wrong, as the Cypriot businessman did not send the necessary certificates that the land on which the development would take place had been purchased on behalf of the investors. It should be noted that a company had been established that was going to buy the plot and implement the project.
Following this, a person representing the Israeli investors and after many months of pending the issue, travelled to Cyprus and through a Cypriot law firm searched the land registry.
He discovered, according to the allegation, that 10 purchase and sale documents presented to him as valid had no substance, while in the whole process false documents were presented by the Greek Cypriot.
Among other things, the complaint alleges that the businessman in at least two cases of investors forged a purchase contract and forged signatures.
In another case, he is accused of having submitted a purchase document to the land registry in order to obtain a relevant receipt and that then, after presenting it to a representative of the investors in order to receive money, he made a cancellation act asking the Land Registry to delete the purchase document from the Land Registers. In this way, as the complainants claim, they were left completely in limbo.
It is also alleged that in a number of cases he falsified documents for tax and other reasons.
"F" reports that the case is already being examined by the Police, while due to its nature it is not excluded that other departments of the Corps may be involved in the investigation beyond the Larnaca ICF. In addition, the investigation will also examine the precise role of complainants.
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A gratuitous attack by a group of 10 people, who beat and stoned them, claimed a father and his two children from Paphos. The incident reportedly took place on September 8 outside a mosque and a person arrested on suspicion of involvement in the incident was placed in three-day detention today by decision of the Pafos District Court.
According to the Pafos Assistant Police Director, Michalis Nicolaou, the 51-year-old father and his two sons, aged 22 and 20, of Arab origin, complained that while leaving the mosque in Kato Paphos and heading to their car on the afternoon of the 8th of this year, they were unnecessarily attacked by 10 people, their compatriots, who beat them with their hands and aggressive instruments and threw stones at them.
The 51-year-old suffered two head injuries and was held at Paphos Hospital for treatment for three days, while his two sons simply had abrasions and were discharged after first aid.
From the investigations, Nicolaou said, police were yesterday led to the arrest of a 51-year-old man, against whom cases of conspiracy to commit a felony and misdemeanor, rioting, injury, assault with actual bodily harm, stabbing and illegal possession of offensive organs are being examined.
Investigations to identify other people allegedly involved in the incident are ongoing, he said.
