Pafos Live 1 July 2026
The Police arrested a 31-year-old man yesterday, to facilitate investigations into an investigated case of illegal possession of explosives and property.
In a search carried out yesterday at the house, the vehicle and container of the 31-year-old, by virtue of court warrants, a grenade which at first glance appears to be educational, electronic devices, various power tools and a small amount of cannabis were located and confiscated, as a result of which he was arrested for flagrant offenses.
An arrest warrant was then issued against him under which he was arrested and taken into custody to facilitate investigations.
The 31-year-old is expected to appear today before the Famagusta District Court for the issuance of a pre-trial detention order.
The T.A.E. and the Y.K.A.N of Famagusta continue examinations
The presence and action of the Police last night was intense, throughout Cyprus, with organized patrols in key points of urban areas, with the aim of preventing serious criminal acts, ensuring public order and increasing the sense of security of the public.
As a result of the preventive policing operations, six persons were arrested for various offenses, such as, among others, illegal possession of drugs, violence in the family, and illegal stay on the territory of the Republic.
As part of these operations, during the night, 358 vehicles were stopped for inspection and 440 persons on board were checked. At the same time, 46 inspections of premises were carried out, with the aim of dealing with phenomena of delinquency, from which three complaints emerged.
During traffic checks carried out, 234 complaints were made, concerning various traffic violations, while 19 investigated cases of traffic violations also emerged. As part of the police examinations, 13 vehicles were detained.
Of the complaints made for traffic violations, 38 complaints concerned exceeding the speed limit and five (5) complaints concerned driving under the influence of alcohol. Two (2) cases of driving under the influence of drugs also emerged, after preliminary drug tests. For driving under the influence of alcohol, 58 vehicle driver checks were carried out, while for driving under the influence of drugs, five (5) driver checks were carried out.
Policing operations, for the prevention and suppression of crime, continue every day, with an enhanced police presence, targeted controls and immediate operational action, in order to protect citizens and ensure public order.
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They denied the charges faced by the two defendants, who are said to be related to the wanted man who lives in Dubai. Yesterday (30/6), the two defendants appeared before the Limassol Permanent Criminal Court, where they were charged with the charges included in the multi-page indictment.
They face charges related to money laundering in the amount of €400,000, false tax income declaration and false declaration. It is noted that, during the process of their detention, the crime of participation in a criminal organization was also investigated, which, however, is not included in the indictment. Following yesterday's development, the case was set for a hearing at a later date.
It is recalled that, when the case was referred to the Criminal Court, the Prosecuting Authority requested and restrictive conditions were imposed, in order to ensure the presence of the accused at the trial. Specifically, they were ordered to hand over their travel documents, to be registered on the stop list, to be present daily at a police station for signing, as well as to provide a creditable guarantor.
The authorities investigated the financial data of the two defendants and, according to the data so far, although they present themselves as low-earners, credits exceeding €480.000 euros were recorded in their bank accounts during the period 2020-2026.
Based on the data of the Social Insurance Services, the declared incomes of the 50-year-old woman and her 49-year-old husband do not seem to justify the property and banking transactions identified. The analysis of bank accounts revealed, among other things, significant movements through Revolut accounts, as well as purchases of high-value vehicles.
According to the Police, the 50-year-old is the cousin of a known wanted person who lives in Dubai. Photos of herself, members of her family with the wanted man were found in her home.
From the examinations of the Authorities, it emerges, according to the Police, that the couple's lifestyle is not consistent with their declared financial data, as property was identified which, according to the data under investigation, does not seem to be justified by their declared income and banking transactions.
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The confessed perpetrator of the brutal murder of 22-year-old student Shahruar Ahmed Emon from Bangladesh has been referred to a direct trial before the Permanent Criminal Court of Larnaca that will meet on September 24. The 22-year-old faces 7 very serious charges, including premeditated murder punishable by life imprisonment. The remaining six charges concern abduction or abduction or deprivation of liberty of a person with the intention of premeditated murder, abduction or abduction or deprivation of liberty of a person for the purpose of secretly and unjustly restricting him, blackmail, claiming property with threats and illegal stay in the territory of the Republic.
The details of the indictment state that the accused on 11/6/2026 in the Kofinou area of Larnaca province, caused the death of Shahryar Ahmed Emon from Bangladesh with a knife, causing him three incisions in the right scapular area and one left cervical incision, while then strangling him.
It is recalled that the student had met the alleged perpetrator on a bus on June 7. During a conversation they had, the victim allegedly asked the suspect for help to find a job and they exchanged phone numbers. The confessed perpetrator then said that he asked the victim to provide him with a wifi hotspot, with the victim refusing and insulting him by telling him "no you are poor, you came from the occupied territories".
This angered the 22-year-old who allegedly started organizing a plan to assassinate Shahruar, who came to our country three months ago to study at a private university. Two days after the meeting, the suspect, as he said, went to a supermarket and bought a knife to kill the victim. On June 11, he contacted the victim and allegedly said that he had found him a job for €50 a day. The appointment was made for the same night, with the confessed perpetrator meeting the victim near the Migrant Accommodation Center in Kofinou, where he was staying.
According to what the perpetrator allegedly confessed, as he was heading on foot to the Kofinos Slaughterhouse, he took the knife he bought and started hitting the victim. Then, as he said, he tried to strangle him with the use of clothing. He then took him to the place where he was found and because he was still alive, he strangled him. He then covered him with straw and threw away his backpack, knife, and the bloody jacket he was wearing.
Along the way, he grabbed the student's mobile phone and set up a whole plot in order to extort money from the 22-year-old's relatives, from whom he demanded €35.000 as a ransom, supposedly to free him.
The defendant's lawyer is Evangelia Lazaridou.
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Another attempt to recover Turkish Cypriot properties in the free areas from heirs and administrator fell on deaf ears. The three-member Court of Appeal rejected the appeal of the administrator of the property of a Turkish Cypriot couple who died and two of their heirs, who requested the recovery of the property, compensation of €40 million. for illegal loss of property and other matters.
In fact, in this case, the case of Titina Loizidou was invoked, with the Court of Appeal vertically separating the case of Ms. Loizidou from the present one, since the heirs "never asked an occupying power, such as Turkey, to settle or grant them their property for use, but, through a proxy representative, they asked for permission to sell their property, which was managed by law (by the Guardian), an issue that was being examined".
As mentioned at first instance in their lawsuit that was dismissed and the decision was also adopted by the Court of Appeal, in the Loizidou case it was held that the applicant's rights were violated by a UN member state (Turkey) which by military occupation, by force, deprived her of the enjoyment of her property and not that the rights of a state recognized by the UN (Republic of Cyprus) were violated under the applicable legislation, as is the case with the application of Cypriot legislation (Law 139/1991 as amended).
The administrator of the property of the Turkish Cypriots and two of their heirs had filed a lawsuit claiming a series of treatments as well as compensation of more than €40 million for illegal intervention in their property consisting of 125 properties. As stated in a decision of the Court of Appeal, some of their properties are used (a) for agricultural purposes by third parties and, (b) some are inhabited by third parties, without these persons, who use or reside in their property, being included in the lawsuit.
According to the claim report, the Turkish Cypriot couple who died were Cypriot citizens, belonging to the Turkish Cypriot community and their property is managed by the administrator, and the heirs, daughter and granddaughter. The Turkish Cypriot couple lived in Paphos until August 1974, and their daughter lived in Episkopi Limassol until 1975, when they moved, against their will, to an area of Famagusta. Also, that the daughter, who is a Cypriot citizen, also belonging to the Turkish Cypriot community, now resides permanently outside the Republic of Cyprus, and the granddaughter has been a permanent resident of the USA since 1969. All of the above were forced in 1974, as they claim, to give up their property, and they did not abandon it on their own.
The core of the written allegations, as stated in the decision of the Court of Appeal, is that the Guardian of the Turkish Cypriots after August 1974 took control and possession of the property in question and uses it without the permission and/or consent of the aforementioned persons, while no amount was paid to them as compensation or rent. Although the owners of the disputed property requested, through their lawyer, the return of their property plus relevant compensation, they did not receive a reply.
On the other hand, the positions put forward, at first instance, by the Attorney General and the Guardian (Minister of the Interior) consist in the fact that the Republic of Cyprus never forced the deceased persons and appellants 3 and 4 (mother and daughter) to leave their property. Also, that they did not use the property in question illegally, or without any approval, but their actions were carried out in accordance with the laws of the Republic of Cyprus. They also say that since appellants 3 and 4 state in their statement of claim that they do not intend to return to the Republic of Cyprus, and therefore not to their immovable property, the Guardian does not prevent them from enjoying it.
The three appellate judges rejected the claim that the deceased persons and appellants 3 and 4 were evicted in 1974 or 1975 from their disputed property. "In 1974, as it is well known, there was an arrangement where movement was not mandatory for everyone, but at the choice of each citizen, hence some Turkish Cypriots live after 1974 in the free areas, without having been expelled or forced by the Republic of Cyprus to leave their properties or residence from the non-occupied part of the country."
In addition, it was found that the Court of First Instance correctly ruled that the appellants failed to prove that respondent 2 – Minister of Interior – Guardian of Turkish Cypriot Properties – is illegally interfering with their disputed property. Although there is an intervention in the occupation, the unsettled situation, declared by the Republic of Cyprus, continues to exist, therefore the intervention is legal, based on the power granted to the Guardian – respondent 2 – by the provisions of the legislation, namely Law 139/1991, in particular through the provisions of Articles 2, 3 and 5, to the content of which we refer.
It was the conclusion of the Court of Appeal that all the appellants did not reside or still reside in the areas under the control of the Republic. Consequently, their property, as Turkish Cypriot, located in the areas controlled by the Republic was correctly and legally placed under the guardianship of the respondent 2. "Therefore, any complaint of the appellant 3, regarding the non-award of any damages due to, allegedly, violation of her human rights, due to the application of Law 139/1991 (as amended), is considered unrealistic," said the Court of Appeal, which rejected the appeal at costs of €7,400 for the benefit of the Republic.
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Cy Mail
A 23-year-old delivery driver was on Wednesday morning assaulted and robbed by a group of unknown individuals in Limassol.
Police said that the incident occurred around 1.30am, when the delivery driver was riding his bicycle on Omonia Avenue in Limassol and was approached by a group of three people who asked him to hand over the food he was carrying.
When he refused to hand over the food, the group attacked him, beating him and allegedly stabbing him in the abdomen with a knife.
The perpetrators then allegedly stole €150 in cash that the driver was carrying with him and fled the scene.
The delivery driver later went to the Limassol general hospital where he was found to have suffered abrasions on various parts of his body, swelling in his right eye and a superficial wound in his left abdomen.
As part of the investigation into the case, the police found that the 23-year-old was residing illegally in the Republic, resulting in his arrest.
Investigations into the case are ongoing.
