Filenews 17 January 2025
A 35-year-old foreigner who was arrested in France last month on a European warrant issued by Cypriot authorities in a fraud case is expected to be brought before the Larnaca District Court on Friday.
The 35-year-old was arrested for facilitating police investigations into an ongoing case of conspiracy to commit a felony, obtaining goods by false representations, computer fraud and money laundering.
According to police, the 35-year-old, a permanent resident of Britain, was arrested in France on December 26, under a European arrest warrant pending against him and members of the Larnaca ICF went to the country to transfer him to Cyprus.
The suspect was transferred last night through Larnaka airport and today he is expected to appear before the city's District Court for a detention order.
The offences allegedly faced by the 35-year-old were committed in 2016 in Cyprus, involve a sum of approximately €31,000 and the complaint against him was made by a company based in Larnaca.
The case is being investigated by the ICF of Larnaca.
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Extensive damage was caused to a vehicle in a parking lot in Emba by a fire that broke out in the early hours of Friday.
According to a spokesperson for the Press Office of the Police Headquarters, at around 02:20 in the morning a report was received in a parking lot in an apartment building in Emba that a fire had occurred in a vehicle.
The vehicle, owned by a 27-year-old man, was extensively damaged.
The scene was placed under guard for further examinations.
The case is being examined by the ICF of Pafos.
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The Police arrested a 19-year-old man in connection with an investigated case of burglary of a building and theft of a sum of money, amounting to €10,000, offences committed yesterday afternoon in Nicosia. The case is being investigated by the ICF of Nicosia.
According to the evidence under investigation and the complaint submitted to the Police, a 50-year-old man, at around 6.00 pm on Thursday, stole from an office in a building in Nicosia, where the 50-year-old works, a bag containing a sum of money, amounting to €10,000. Shortly after 8.00 pm on Thursday, the 50-year-old himself spotted in an area in Engomi, an unknown man, who was in possession of the stolen bag and after intercepting him, alerted the police.
Members of the Police rushed for examinations at the scene, where it was found that the bag in the possession of the suspect, a 19-year-old man, was the bag of the 50-year-old who had earlier been stolen. Police found a sum of €5,100 in the bag, but under questioning, the 19-year-old made tent suggestions and handed over to the police a sum of €4,600, which appears to be part of the 50-year-old's stolen property.
The 19-year-old was arrested and taken into custody for the purpose of investigating a case of burglary of a building, theft, and illegal possession of property. Another case of burglary, committed at a residence in Nicosia between 04 and 05 January, is being investigated against him, which he confessed to members of the Police yesterday.
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The dance of arrests continues in relation to a large quantity of drugs seized on August 21, 2024 in Limassol, which had been stored in a vehicle parked in the area of Monovoliko and had been converted into a warehouse. For the case, YKAN Limassol proceeded yesterday to 3 more new arrests of persons, including a 23-year-old woman.
The 3 suspects were brought before the Limassol District Court today at noon, with the examiner of the case requesting their detention for a period of 5 days. The lawyers for the three did not object to their clients' detention request and the court ordered that they be detained.
The three arrests, according to information provided by Filenews, emerged from the evidence of the case. Specifically, from the scientific tests carried out on the evidence, genetic material of the 23-year-old was found in the gummies containing the substance HHC and in packages with biscuits containing the same substance that were stored in a bag inside the vehicle.
The other two suspects, aged 26 and 20 respectively, had their fingerprints found on both biscuit packaging and nylon bags of drugs. The same information states that the 3 suspects, after their arrest yesterday, under interrogation, denied guilt and declared ignorance about the case.
During the search of the vehicle, approximately 10 kilograms of cannabis, 50 kilograms of King Gummies (lozenges that appear to contain narcotics), 40 grams of king cookies, half a kilogram of cannabis resin, 200 ecstasy pills, about 150 grams of cocaine and other small amounts of narcotics were found.
In the previous period, 4 persons had been arrested for the case, who were brought to trial before the Permanent Assize Court of Limassol. 3 are in custody as undertrials in the Central Prison, while the fourth remains free on parole. The investigators of YKAN Limassol are looking for another person.
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The authorities of the Republic requested through the Bicommunal Committee on Crime that the four Turkish Cypriots allegedly involved in the Potamia incident be handed over to it.
A request was initially made for 62-year-old Khalil Alaslan and his two sons, while today a new request was made for Mehmet Ali Uluchai, who was arrested while attempting to board a ship with a double cab bearing a bullet mark.
Uluchai reportedly confessed to the authorities of the pseudo-state that he was involved in the Potamia case. He faces charges in a false court involving migrant smuggling and entering a military zone.
The request was forwarded, according to Filenews, to the bi-communal office so that if the regime in the occupied areas responds, then the United Nations will be informed.
It is estimated that the three of the Alaslan family will not be given to the authorities of the Republic because of their ties to the pseudo-state. As for the fourth wanted person, the outcome of the proceedings initiated against him in the occupied territories is awaited.
Bullet marks covered in paint on Uluchai's vehicle
Meanwhile, as reported in the occupied territories, the detention order against Mehmet Ali Uluchai was renewed for another 6 days, so that the "police" could search his mobile phone and carry out further investigations. Uluchai faces charges of "trafficking in persons" and "violation of military zone A".
In the Nicosia "district court", the "sergeant" of the "special investigation department" of the "police", Cemil Basri reported that bullet marks covered with paint were found in the suspect's vehicle.
In his statement to the police, the suspect said that he threw away the mobile phone he was using on the day of the incident in Potamia and did not give the password of the new phone in his possession at the time of the arrest.
Basri also explained that after being informed by the Greek Cypriot side through the Information Exchange Office (the Technical Committee on Crime and Criminality) they found that the deceased Pakistani national was 24-year-old Soib Khan and that he had entered the pseudo-state "legally" on November 29, 2021 with a 60-day residence permit, but there was no "legal exit".
