Pafos Live 25 January 2025
YKAN reportedly arrested a 25-year-old man who was found to be in possession of 905 grams of cocaine.
The cocaine was found following a targeted check carried out on his vehicle yesterday afternoon in Paphos.
The examinations are continued by the YKAN.
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Pafos Press
The Police Authorities in Limassol were mobilized at dawn following information about the identification of vital organs on Anexartisias Street in Limassol.
The instruments were discovered in a bag on the sidewalk by a citizen, who informed the police.
According to information from the RIK, these are lungs. Authorities are conducting tests to determine whether the vital organs belong to a human or an animal.
Update - Filenews - As shown by preliminary examinations, the organs found in the centre of Limassol do not belong to a human.
Specifically, according to the Police, from the preliminary tests performed on the found vital organs and specifically on the lung part, they are not human. The exams are ongoing...
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Filenews
A case of robbery of a kiosk at dawn is being investigated by the Police in Limassol, where, according to the complaint made, two masked men, at the threat of a bat, snatched two days' proceeds from the employee.
According to the police, the robbery was committed shortly after three in the morning and the target was a kiosk in the area of Agios Athanasios in Limassol.
The assailants, two masked men, threatened the 23-year-old employee with a bat and immobilized him.
Then they seized the proceeds of two days, a number of cigarettes and other products of the kiosk, of unknown value so far and disappeared.
The Police were informed, members of which went to the area for investigations and interrogations.
The movements of the perpetrators were recorded by closed-circuit surveillance, the images of which are being evaluated by investigators.
CNA
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An assault and robbery involving a 50-year-old foreign woman is being investigated by police in Limassol. The incident took place late Thursday night while the woman was cycling on an electric scooter on a main street in the city.
The robbery took place shortly after 11 p.m. on Makarios III Avenue, in the area of Mesa Geitonia. According to police information, two youths, who were riding a motorcycle, approached the woman and grabbed the purse she was holding. During the attack, the woman lost her balance and fell to the ground, as a result of which she was injured.
The attackers fled the scene, leaving the woman helpless. The 50-year-old was taken by ambulance to Limassol General Hospital, where she received first aid and was subsequently dismissed. In the purse that was stolen were her mobile phone and a sum of money.
Authorities are conducting intensive investigations to identify and arrest the perpetrators.
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One of the most serious crimes ever committed in Cyprus, which occurred in 2004, was to be solved in Russia two decades later. With the authorities of the vast country, in fact, having concluded the investigation.
The reason is the former deputy of the Duma, Mikhail Glushenko. Last Thursday he was sentenced to several years in prison, after he was judged after a trial to be the instigator of the crime on our island.
Glushenko, who is already serving a prison sentence for another serious crime, "was sentenced to 18 years in prison, or a total of 24 years in a maximum security prison, as well as a fine of 300,000 rubles," according to a ruling by the District Court of St. Petersburg's Primorsky district.
The unprecedented crime was committed in a villa in Peyia. According to the data we found, on 24/3/2004 51-year-old Vyacheslav Shevchenko, 25-year-old Valentina Tretyakova and 56-year-old Yuri Zorin were found murdered in this house.
The bodies of the aforementioned were found by members of the Cyprus Police wrapped and taped in black garbage bags in the bathtub. According to police, the men were found partially dressed, while the woman was naked.
An autopsy had determined that the three had died from multiple head injuries caused by a sharp object. The forensic pathologist who handled the case for democracy at the time, Sophocles Sophocleous, concluded that the three died of "severe head injuries". He had ruled out any form of sexual assault on any of the victims.
According to a well-known Russian news agency (Interfax), the case against Glushenko was tried by a jury, who in late November issued a verdict, finding him guilty and not worthy of clemency.
As emerged from the investigation of the Russian authorities and the Court's decision, in the early 2000s the former deputy of the State Duma promised the businessmen, the Shevchenko brothers, to ensure the protection of their business from criminal organizations. The fee amounted to $50,000 per month in early 2004.
The investigators, based on the case as presented to the Court, concluded that when one of the Shevchenko brothers informed Glushenko of the termination of cooperation, the latter decided to blackmail one of them by demanding $ 10 million or shares of the company JSC Metropol. The businessman refused, and then Glushenko, to intimidate Shevchenko, He organized the murder of his brother.
According to the court ruling, Glushenko recruited an acquaintance and other accomplices to commit the crime in exchange for $70,000. In March 2004, at the home of 51-year-old Vyacheslav Shevchenko in Cyprus, accomplices murdered the owner, his business partner Yuri Zorin and their translator. Victoria Tretyakova."
Glushenko is already serving a sentence for previous convictions. In 2013, the District Court of St. Petersburg's Kuibyshevsky district sentenced him to eight years in prison with a fine of about €3,000 on large-scale extortion charges. In 2015, the Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg found him guilty of murdering MP Galina Starovoitova in 1998. In total, he was sentenced to 17 years in prison.
According to what we found on the Russian-language television network, RTVI, which is mainly aimed at the Russian-speaking diaspora around the world, Glushenko had tried on several occasions to be released due to unacceptable damage to his health. I have been in prison for more than 15 years, I am already 67 years old, I suffer from serious chronic diseases. I ask for love and gratitude," he was quoted as saying in one of his requests.
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Next Wednesday, January 29, 2025, it is expected that the court will issue its final decision in the case of the murder of two dogs committed in 2018 in Paphos, while the trial had begun on February 21, 2020.
In a statement, the Party for the Animals of Cyprus said that "as usual, it has been monitoring this case since February 2020. The cold-blooded murder of two innocent dogs in Paphos was brought (then) to court."
The Party for the Animals of Cyprus has been informed that on 29 January 2025 (5 years after that trial began) the Pafos District Court will issue its final decision.
The Party for the Animals of Cyprus adds that "it will anxiously await the decision of the court and we hope that, if and when the perpetrator is guilty (no one is guilty until proven otherwise) he will be taken where and where he deserves".
It is recalled that the incident took place on December 29, 2018 in the village of Timi in the Paphos district, when two Malinois dogs, a male and a female, were shot dead. Police then arrested the perpetrator following a complaint by the dogs' owner.
