Pafos Live 23 April 2025
The Police are investigating cases related to the offenses of conspiracy to commit a felony, burglary of a residence at night, theft, detection of a stolen motorcycle, as well as other offenses.
Specifically, on April 22, 2025, a burglary of a house in Nicosia was reported to the Police, from which a number of objects were stolen, with a total value of more than €5,000.
In the context of the investigation of the case, a testimony emerged against a 33-year-old resident of the Larnaca district. In a search carried out on the same day at his home, part of the stolen property was found, resulting in his arrest for the flagrant offense of illegal possession of property.
In addition, during the investigations, a second suspect, aged 28, was found in the area driving a motorcycle.
During the subsequent check, it was found that the motorcycle had been declared as stolen on April 18, 2025, from an area of Nicosia, resulting in the arrest of the 28-year-old for flagrant offenses.
Subsequently, the two suspects pointed to a storage area near the house where the 33-year-old lives, where various objects, which are believed to come from burglaries, as well as several keys to vehicles and houses, were found and received as evidence.
During the interrogation, the two arrested allegedly admitted to the burglary of the house in question in Nicosia. In addition, the 33-year-old admitted the theft of a car in Limassol, which was later found in the Larnaca district.
The 28-year-old also admitted to stealing the motorcycle, as well as another vehicle, which he abandoned a few days later and was located by the Police.
The two arrested will appear today before the Nicosia District Court for the issuance of their detention orders.
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The Police made 18 arrests and confiscated more than 4,000 firecrackers in the last fortnight until the peak of the Easter celebrations last Sunday, as part of checks throughout the country.
According to a spokesperson for the Police Communications Branch, between April 7 and 21, the corps carried out 2,334 checks in parks, church grounds and other open spaces frequented by young people and 1,120 people were checked.
He added that within the framework of the above controls, the Police made 18 arrests for possession of firecrackers and related offenses.
As he said, most of those arrested were charged with offenses of rioting, illegal assembly, possession and use of firecrackers, possession of offensive instruments, theft of tires, etc., while among them were minors.
Regarding the seizures of illegal material, the representative of the Branch said that more than 4,000 firecrackers have been confiscated, citing the case of a 45-year-old man in Paphos on Holy Saturday, where 55 factory firecrackers and 4 fireworks were found after a search of his car.
Also asked about the progress of the investigations regarding the case of a 22-year-old man who lost his life in Strovolos, he said that from the examinations it seems that it is an accident, adding that testimonies will be taken from all those present at the scene of the accident.
Asked if there were other attacks against members of the Police, he said that apart from what happened in Livadia and Latsia, there were no other incidents, with the situation normalizing after Holy Saturday.
CNA
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The case regarding the incident at the prison is becoming much more serious with the classified and unclassified documents that were found in the house of a prison guard of the Central Prison during the investigation into another case.
Information from "F" states that among the hundreds of documents received from members of the Police, there are also documents that are classified and concern internal issues of the Police, most of them on the security of persons, or on the handling of an issue, or other issues that were of concern to the Corps from time to time and contained confidential information.
As it emerges from the study of the evidence, apart from documents concerning the Prisons, internal documents sent within the Police have also been identified. In fact, in some cases, classified documents sent by directors or commanders to the Chief of Police were also notified to the Minister of Justice.
All this changes the flow of investigations, which go back to the period before 2018, in order to determine how they came into possession of the prison guard. Already, according to our information, persons from the Police who are alleged to be the senders of the documents have begun to be called, in order to identify them and declare whether they had indeed sent them and whether they had also communicated them to the Prisons.
The most remarkable thing, and this is where the investigations are focused, concerns the documents themselves, many of which are the originals and bear the signature of the sender. In other words, they are not the copies. This is also the "key" for the investigations, in order to identify the person who had access to them and why they are not in the relevant files and were finally found by chance in the possession of a member of the staff of the Central Prisons, placed in boxes in his residence.
Following these findings, it is expected that the former Police Chiefs to whom the letters were addressed will be sought, among others, in order to indicate whether they became aware of these documents and why their originals were not archived, with the key importance of showing who else had access to them.
The investigators of the TAE Police Headquarters are slowly looking to find the connection between all these and how the documents ended up having a common denominator: To reach, that is, to the possession of a prison guard.
Testimonies are taken from persons inside the Prison on how the documents that arrived there were archived and whether those found in the possession of a prison guard are in a file within the penitentiary.
What is considered certain is that the Police have never been reported or even reported to the Police for the theft of documents concerning the Central Prisons, at any time of the many changes in the address.
Meanwhile, yesterday the detention decree for the prison guard expired with the investigators not asking for his renewal, since he is already in custody until his trial on June 24, for the case with the allegedly kiosk operated inside a wing by a convict, under his tolerance.
The Police, as reported to the Court where the prison guard was brought as a suspect, are investigating against him offences concerning: Abuse of power, violation of official secrecy, offences of the "Personal Data Protection Law", theft by a public official and illegal possession of property.
The investigations are proceeding normally as we are informed and it was not considered appropriate to bring the prison guard into Court again, since he is already under trial and on three-month availability.
