Pafos Live 20 September 2025
The revelation yesterday on the show FROM DAY TO DAY of RIK information about an attempt to sell drugs to a 14-year-old high school student by a classmate at the school caused a sensation.
The information of RIK was confirmed by the representative of the Paphos police, assistant police director of Paphos, Michalis Nikolaou, who stated that indeed a few days ago a father accompanied his 14-year-old son to the police, who reported that a foreign peer tried to sell him drugs inside the school.
On the same day, the residence of the foreigner's family was searched by members of the force. No drugs were found, but stolen property was found.
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Pafos Press
The Cybercrime Unit (KDIE) of the Hellenic Police Headquarters received information via Europol, according to which in May 2025, a user of an online platform uploaded a total of 140 video and image files containing material of sexual abuse of minors to his account. Subsequent examinations revealed that the owner/user of this account is a 30-year-old man, who was arrested yesterday pursuant to a court order. During his arrest, a mobile phone was found in his possession, which was seized as evidence to be subjected to forensic examinations. A preliminary check carried out revealed that the phone contained two files containing material of sexual abuse of minors. In a subsequent investigation, in the presence of the suspect, at his place of residence, two laptops and a data storage unit (USB) were located and seized as evidence. Members of the Hellenic State Police were also called to the scene, after narcotics were found, resulting in the 30-year-old being arrested for the flagrant offense of drug possession. The case is being investigated by the Electronic Crime Prosecution Branch.
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Filenews
The Police arrested a 21-year-old man, in connection with a case of breaking into a house and stealing a shotgun and an air pistol, committed in early August in the province of Larnaca.
The 21-year-old was arrested on a court warrant and taken into custody.
Today he is expected to be brought before the Larnaca District Court for the issuance of a detention order.
After coordinated investigations, the two weapons were found hidden in an abandoned car and received as evidence.
The case is being investigated by the Aradippou Police Station.
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The Police arrested a 16-year-old, to facilitate the investigations regarding an investigated case of assault causing actual bodily harm.
Specifically, around 9 p.m. yesterday, information was received by the Police, to locate an injured person, in an apartment building in Larnaca. Members of the Police went to the scene, where they found a 41-year-old man with a head injury.
The 41-year-old reportedly told the police that he was attacked by a number of people, who beat him. He was then taken to the Larnaca General Hospital, where he was given first aid and discharged.
As part of the Police examinations, testimony was secured against a 16-year-old, who was arrested under a court warrant to facilitate investigations. This morning, the 16-year-old was brought before the Larnaca District Court, which issued a four-day detention order against him.
The Larnaca Minor Offences Department is investigating the case.
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Two men, aged 31 and 45, were arrested yesterday by the Police, to facilitate investigations into an investigated case of burglary of a residence, causing malicious damage, assault causing grievous bodily harm and possession and transport of an offensive instrument.
Testimony emerged against the 31-year-old and the 45-year-old during the police examinations, on the basis of which arrest warrants were issued against them.
According to the details of the case, shortly after midnight on September 17, 2025, a number of persons breached the entrances and entered a house in Nicosia, holding bats and large knives. The perpetrators allegedly caused damage to the house and vehicles parked in the yard, while they also allegedly attacked and injured one of the tenants.
The two arrested were brought before the Nicosia District Court today, which issued a five-day detention order against them.
The TAE of Nicosia continues the examinations.
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The Police arrested a second person yesterday, to facilitate the investigations into a case of locating and confiscating a large amount of drugs, in Limassol, last Thursday, September 18.
He is a 47-year-old resident of Limassol, who was arrested by virtue of a court warrant, issued on the basis of testimony, that arose against him. The arrest of the 47-year-old was followed by a search of his home and car, during which various items were received.
It is recalled that for the same case, a 35-year-old resident of Nicosia was arrested and is in seven-day detention. The 35-year-old was arrested last Thursday, when in a search of his home and vehicles, quantities of cocaine, total, gross weight of 977 grams, MDMA "Ecstasy", gross weight of 40 grams and cannabis, gross weight of 176 grams, were found and received as evidence.
YKAN (Limassol District Unit) continues the examinations.
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An alarm was sounded by the Police around 22:00 in the evening when shots were reported in the parking lot of a businessman's residence in the community of Finikaria in the Limassol district.
A witness testified that he saw around 18:30, a large motorcycle approaching the parked vehicle and the occupants opening fire.
The businessman, a Colombian citizen and owner of a company, no longer resides permanently in Cyprus.
The scene has been cordoned off and remains under guard by the Police, while investigators are collecting evidence and taking statements with the aim of clarifying the case.
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A 21-year-old foreigner from India, who is accused of raping and stealing a 32-year-old domestic worker from Nepal, was taken to the Central Prison today (19/9). The case was reported last week to the Limassol Police Department and the investigators immediately proceeded to arrest him.
The decree of his seven-day detention expired today and the Police requested that the case be referred to the Permanent Criminal Court of Limassol. The young man faces the offenses of rape and theft, which were committed, according to the complaint, in the early hours of Friday, September 12.
According to the 32-year-old complainant, who works as a domestic worker, the incident happened when she accepted an invitation to visit the 21-year-old at his home. During her stay there, the two allegedly consumed alcohol and the accused allegedly - according to the complaint - raped her. Subsequently, the alleged perpetrator allegedly took her bag, in which there was a sum of €400 and her residence permit in Cyprus.
The 32-year-old left his house and asked for help from neighbours, one of whom called the Police. The woman was taken to the Limassol Police Department, where she filed a complaint.
The 21-year-old was arrested and questioned by the authorities. During his interrogation, he denied committing the rape, claiming that the sexual intercourse took place with the consent of the 32-year-old woman. The case has now been referred to the Limassol Criminal Court, with the 21-year-old being in custody until the start of his trial.
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A mobile phone with its charger was found today in the possession of a 34-year-old defendant, who appeared today at the Limassol District Court.
Specifically, during the receipt of convicts / undertrials by the Limassol District Court, a search was carried out on the 34-year-old, where the above items were found hidden in his underwear, which were taken for further examination.
During the investigation that followed and on the basis of an evaluation of evidence, testimony emerged against a 42-year-old lawyer, who had previously met with the defendant in court, in the context of her capacity. She was arrested on the basis of a court warrant and taken into custody to facilitate investigations.
The TAE Limassol continues the examinations.
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The Larnaca District Court imposed a suspended prison sentence and a fine of €14.000 on the owner of a metal recycling company, where three weeks ago there was an explosion resulting in serious injuries to three people (employee and visitors). The conviction concerns, however, the injury of another employee of the company, which has previously engaged the authorities for illegalities.
Specifically, the Larnaca District Court imposed a fine of €14,000 on a specific company, while sentencing a natural person to a four-month prison sentence with a three-year suspension, for violations of the Minimum Safety and Health Standards.
In a statement from the Department of Labour Inspection of the Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance, it is stated that it promoted the criminal prosecution of employers who violated the provisions of the Legislation on Safety and Health at Work.
As a result of "the prosecution concerning a serious accident at work, the Larnaca District Court sentenced the company that operates, among other things, with the collection and recycling of metals, to a fine of €14,000 for violations of the Minimum Safety and Health Standards (Use of Work Equipment at Work) Regulations of 2001 and 2004, the Management of Safety and Health Issues at Work Regulations of 2021 and the Safety and Health at Work Regulations of 2021 and the Safety and Health at Work Work of Laws of 1996 to 2020, which caused the serious injury to her employee and endangered her employees and other persons".
Specifically, the company failed to apply "a working method during the cable stripping process using a cable stripping machine, as a result of which one of its employees, who was engaged in feeding / placing the cables in the machine, was seriously injured in the fingers and palm of her left hand, when it was trapped between the rotating rollers".
Furthermore, the company failed to take the necessary measures "so that the cable stripping machine made available to its employees is suitable for the work to be performed, as a result of which one of its employees suffered a serious injury to the fingers and palm of her left hand, when it was trapped between the two rotating rollers of the machine".
The Court also condemned the company for failing to equip the "cable stripping machine, with guards or systems, which prevent access to the danger zone, i.e. the rotating rollers of the machine, and for failing to supply the cable stripping machine with an emergency shutdown device".
The company was also convicted of "failure to provide its employees with the appropriate information and in understandable language instructions for use, regarding the cleaning of the cylinders of the cable stripping machine, so that the employees are sufficiently aware of the risks involved in the use/maintenance of the machine. Also for failing to determine the preventive and protective measures that must be taken on the basis of the written assessment of the existing risks at work and especially the work related to the use and operation of the cable stripping machine".
According to the announcement of the Department of Labour Inspection, the company failed to provide "surveillance during the feeding / laying of the cables in the cable stripping machine".
The Larnaca District Court "sentenced a natural person to a fine of four months imprisonment with a three-year suspension, for violations of the Minimum Safety and Health Standards (Use of Work Equipment at Work) Regulations of 2001 and 2004, the Management of Safety and Health at Work Regulations 2021 and the Safety and Health at Work Laws of 1996 to 2020, that caused serious injury to one of its employees and endangered its employees."
Previous convictions
According to sources from the Department of Environment, "in 2019 and after out-of-court settlements and letters of compliance for the cessation of work on the illegal unlicensed facility, a detailed report was sent to the Attorney General for the issuance of a temporary decree (ex parte) to cease work on the installation". Three years later (2022), after being informed by the Attorney General, the Department of Environment, as reported to us, stressed in a letter "that it stands by its original view of closing the facility". In 2023, moreover, a court issued an out-of-court order of €600 for this space.
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Bulgarian authorities confirmed on Tuesday that they have arrested a Russian shipowner wanted in Lebanon whose vessel is linked to the ammonium nitrate cargo that was at the center of the devastating explosion in the port of Beirut in 2020.
Igor Grechushkin, 48, was arrested at Sofia International Airport on September 6 when he arrived from Paphos, according to Zdravko Samuilov, head of the border guard at the Bulgarian capital's airport.
Grechushkin, who has dual citizenship, Russian and Cypriot, "did not resist arrest, cooperated and nothing suspicious was found in his luggage," the police chief said.
The arrest, first announced by Lebanese officials on Tuesday, was based on information from Interpol. Following a court order, Grechushkin was detained for up to 40 days, according to Samuilov.
Bulgaria has also requested the necessary documents for Grechushkin before he can be extradited to Lebanon. A Lebanese investigator had issued two arrest warrants through Interpol five years ago, one for Grechushkin and one for the ship's captain, Boris Prokoshev, also a Russian national.
The explosion of August 4, 2020 killed at least 218 people, injured more than 6.000, destroyed much of Beirut and caused billions of dollars in damage
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The 44-year-old Azeri, holder of a British passport, who is accused and on trial for espionage, appeared before the new composition of the Limassol Permanent Criminal Court. The case was scheduled today to be charged with the charges included in the indictment, however, he was once again postponed.
As Filenews is informed, the defense attorney requested that a translator be appointed to provide a translation of the proceedings into Azeri so that the defendant fully understands his trial. He also requested that additional witness material in the case file be handed over to him.
It is noteworthy that from the day of the arrest until today, the translation to the 44-year-old was in Russian, a language that, as he initially stated, he understood. Following the above requests, the Court postponed the case and set a new hearing for the beginning of October.
The charges facing the Azeri are a total of five and concern offenses of espionage, publishing news related to the defense of the Republic, illegal recording of images from a prohibited area and money laundering.
As we had revealed in previous publications, the offenses were allegedly committed during the period from April to June 21, 2025, in the Republic of Cyprus. The accused allegedly used an advanced technology camera and mobile phones, through which he obtained visual material from the British Akrotiri (RAF) and the "Andreas Papandreou" air base, during the period when air and missile strikes between Israel and Iran were in progress.
The 44-year-old, according to information cited by the Police, was allegedly in contact with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC). From surveillance, he allegedly moved on foot almost every day near the British Bases, holding a camera with a magnifying glass and three mobile phones. He was recorded taking photos with both his mobile phones and other electronic devices and his camera, as well as chatting via mobile phones and taking printed notes.
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Cyprus Mail 19 September 2025
Nine people were remanded for eight days after they helped 16 irregular migrants into the country in the Peristerona area of Nicosia, police said on Friday.
At around 9.30pm on Thursday, members of the buffer zone surveillance unit located the 16 irregular migrants on the main road of Peristerona, eight of whom were minors.
In addition to that, three vehicles were seen moving suspiciously in the area, in which a total of nine people were travelling.
They were arrested for the evident offences of aiding the smuggling of irregular migrants and appeared before the Nicosia district court on Friday, where an eight-day remand order was issued.
The 16 migrants were taken to the Pournara reception centre in Kokkinotrimithia.
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A 35-year-old man was arrested in Limassol late on Thursday after police seized nearly one kilogram of cocaine, along with MDMA and cannabis, during a targeted drug trafficking operation.
Shortly before 6.30pm, officers from the drug squad (YKAN) stopped the suspect’s car and found 60 packets of white powder identified as cocaine, weighing 910g, inside a cardboard box.
Police also confiscated €140 and two mobile phones from the vehicle as evidence for further examination.
Following the arrest, officers searched the man’s home and second car.
They found a further 67g of cocaine and around 60g of dried cannabis in the apartment.
In the second vehicle, they seized approximately 116g of dried cannabis and 40g of MDMA (Ecstasy).
The suspect remains in custody on suspicion of possession with intent to supply.
The Limassol YKAN continues its investigation.
