Pafos Live 1 October 2025
A new complaint was received yesterday, September 30, by the Police, regarding online fraud, which concerns false messages about an alleged VAT refund.
According to the complaint submitted to the TAE, a citizen received yesterday, September 29, an e-mail message, which falsely appeared to come from the Tax Department and in which reference was made to a VAT tax refund.
The recipient of the message scanned the QR Code that appeared in the message and then opened a corresponding fake website, where she filled in her bank details, such as her passwords in the online application of the bank where she maintains a bank account, and her bank card details.
Then, after receiving a notification from her bank, for debiting her account, she found that, from her bank account, the amount of €878 was stolen.
On the occasion of this new case, the Police urges the public to be especially careful and to follow the following recommendations:
– No tax or other State Authority sends messages requesting the confirmation of bank details through links
– Do not fill in information on websites that are not the official ones of state organizations
– In case you receive a similar message, ignore it and delete it immediately
– Always check the email address of the sender of a message and the electronic links it includes, before selecting the link
– Use two-factor security for your online accounts
– Never share personal or banking information via e-mail or through unknown websites
– Be informed only by official State sources
– In case any banking data was reported to the perpetrators during such fraud, the public should IMMEDIATELY inform their Banking Institution to avoid unwanted use of their data and available funds and submit a relevant complaint to the Police.
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A case of premeditated murder-femicide is being investigated by the TAE Nicosia, with the victim being 58-year-old AFSANEH MOHAMMADI, from Iran.
Around 2:30 in the morning today, information was received about an injured woman in a house in Nicosia.
The woman, who suffered a serious head injury, died while being transported by ambulance to Nicosia General Hospital.
The scene was cordoned off for examinations, while a 62-year-old man was arrested as a suspect.According to information, this is her ex, also from Iran.
The 62-year-old appeared before a court, which issued an eight-day detention order against him.
The TAE of Nicosia is investigating the case.
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Pafos Press
Two people were injured after a fight broke out between them on Tuesday afternoon in Paphos.
According to the Police, around 19:30 on Tuesday afternoon, two people appeared to have gotten into a fight in a common area of a building complex in the Tala community of Paphos district. They are a 63-year-old Greek Cypriot and a 45-year-old Syrian.
Specifically, under circumstances that are being investigated, it is alleged that the following were also injured:two with a knife after a fight between them. According to the Police, at first glance, both the 63-year-old and the 45-year-old have minor injuries and were examined by a government doctor.A deafening noise, accompanied by a large white flash, disturbed the residents of Papageorgiou Christidis Street in Kissonerga, shortly after one in the morning.
According to information, under circumstances that are being investigated by the Pegeia Police Station, a young British driver lost control of her vehicle, which crashed into an EAC pole. The fall of the pole caused a powerful explosion, due to a short circuit in the power cables that touched each other.
The driver was heading towards the center of the community when, at a point on the road, she collided with the pole, causing her vehicle to overturn and come to a standstill in the middle of the road.
Several neighbours immediately rushed to the scene, hearing the deafening noise, and found that the driver had exited the vehicle and was in a state of shock. Luckily for her, the two front airbags deployed during the collision, which prevented her from serious injury.
Police continue to investigate the exact causes of the accident.
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Filenews
A search pursuant to a court warrant was carried out in the apartment of one of the two wanted persons of the attempted murder of the 42-year-old Ukrainian, who had previously been located and placed under guard and surveillance by members of the Police in Limassol.
During the search, two pistol magazines with a number of bullets, burglary tools, mobile phones, as well as documents, including IDs and passports, were found and confiscated.
According to a previous report by Filenews, the investigations of the investigative team of the TAE Limassol for the attempted murder of a 42-year-old Ukrainian businessman, which took place on Monday night (29/9) in the outdoor reception area of a hotel complex on the coastal road of Limassol, are in full swing.
Despite the testimonies so far and the footage from security cameras, the motive behind the crime remains unknown, with the authorities moving – for now – blindly. Information on financial disputes is investigated, but without excluding any possibility.
Investigators are in possession of videos from closed surveillance circuits, which they recorded at the moment of the fight. The incident allegedly developed simultaneously in two places and ended in a bloody end, with the perpetrator shooting the victim at close range in the abdomen.
The two alleged perpetrators of the shooting in Limassol, DAVID GAZZAEV, 44 years old, and STAVROS KRIARIDIS, 39 years old, are persons of Russian and Greek origin, with one having previously engaged the authorities in various cases. The 39-year-old also holds a Cypriot identity card. Arrest warrants have already been issued against them.
Anyone who knows anything that may help in locating them is asked to contact the Limassol Police Station on 25805057, the nearest Police Station or the Citizen's Hotline on 1460.
It is noteworthy that the victim's friends – who took him to the hospital – did not provide substantial information about the attempt or his professional activities, in order to contribute to the clarification of the case. According to information from Filenews, the 42-year-old's friends reported that a meeting was scheduled in the hotel's cafeteria, with them sitting at the next table. They are expected to cross the threshold of the Limassol Police Department within the day, in order to give written statements.
As our website wrote yesterday, the 42-year-old Ukrainian businessman often moved abroad, while he lived in the Neapolis area in Limassol.
The Police have re-released new photos of the two wanted persons, in order to collect information that can help locate them.
The moment of the shooting is on video
Around 19:00, the victim, accompanied by his friends, left the hotel. Outside the reception area, there was tension in two different places, resulting in a fight. According to the same information, the 42-year-old allegedly punched one of the perpetrators, with the latter pulling out a gun from a purse and shooting him in the abdomen. According to the same information, the moment of the shooting has been recorded by a security camera of the area. Immediately afterwards, everyone involved fled, with the victim's friends taking him to the hospital.
A shell casing from a firearm was found at the scene of the incident, as well as other evidence, which were received for scientific and other examinations.
According to the evidence so far, the perpetrators escaped in a luxury vehicle, which was found a little later abandoned in an open area on the coastal road of Zygi. Information in the hands of the investigative team of the TAE Limassol states that the suspects may have fled to the occupied territories. The Police have already informed the roadblocks, as well as the Bicommunal Committee.
The 42-year-old is being treated at the Limassol General Hospital, where he underwent surgery with his health condition being stable and out of danger.
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A case of attempted murder is being investigated by the TAE of Nicosia, regarding the case of injury of a 62-year-old man in the area of Pera Orini.
According to the Police, around 12.20 yesterday afternoon, after information, an unconscious person was found in a car in the province of Nicosia.
As it was established, he is a 62-year-old man, who was transported by ambulance to Nicosia General Hospital.
As part of the examinations, testimony emerged against a 36-year-old resident of Nicosia, who was arrested on the basis of a court warrant, to facilitate the investigations.
The 62-year-old is being treated at the Nicosia General Hospital, with his health condition being judged by the treating doctors as critical.
The TAE of Nicosia continues the examinations.
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The Police arrested a 29-year-old person yesterday, as part of an investigation into a case of locating and seizing methamphetamine with a gross weight of 1.6 kg.
The 29-year-old was arrested by members of YKAN during the receipt of the package containing the drugs, from a courier company in Nicosia. The package contained threads where the drugs were carefully hidden.
YKAN (Nicosia District Unit) is investigating the case.
