Financial crime is a fast-growing concern nowadays, for both individuals and companies. Financial and investment firms, as well as their directors and officers, may be found liable for a client's financial loss ...

In response to the violence and turbulence of daily life, the family unit can be a safe haven for family members, offering a loving and supportive environment, whilst also ensuring the emotional development of its members.

In tandem with the legal position under English law, albeit with certain structural variations which will be addressed in this article, fraudulent trading in Cyprus is both a civil and criminal concept.

Through money laundering, criminals fund and profit from illicit activity such as arms sales, narcotics, human trafficking, contraband smuggling, embezzlement, insider trading, bribery, and fraud schemes.

She then considers the ‘human rights' implications of tardy investigation processes in respect of two very high-profile cases that occurred in Cyprus in modern times.

The right to silence, for which every suspect is informed immediately after being arrested, is linked to the privilege against self-incrimination.

The Supreme Court has upheld a recent trial Courts decision, in its decision dated 09.10.2019 holding that a private prosecutor is not obligated to grant access to the material evidence ...

The right to pursue a private criminal prosecution is an effective and frequently used weapon in the arsenal for combatting white-collar crime

For years, the word "lobbying" in Cyprus, as in many parts of the world, has carried a cloud of suspicion.

A recent decision from the Cyprus Court of Appeal, issued on 17 November 2025, has drawn a bright red line around how parties may use information obtained through these orders.

There is not a single legal definition of commercial fraud, as this concept covers a wide range of areas.

Computer crime encompasses a wide range of offences. Some of these are the same as non-computer offences, such as fraud or larceny, except that, in the former, a computer or the internet is used to commit the crime.

EU Council Framework 2009/315/JHA of 26 February 2009 regulates the organization and content of the exchange of information from the criminal record between Member States.

We are proud to have turned our clients' trouble into a great litigation success against criminal money launderers and to a substantial one-of-a-kind compensation of over €38 million.

It is therefore reasonable for someone to ask how GRECO examines the compliance process of its members.

Suggestion for passing the law and establishing a clear legal framework for the protection and prevention of school bullying.

The financial services and international business sector in Cyprus is one of the vital pillars of the Cyprus economy.

Money laundering offences usually consist of conduct which seeks to conceal the criminal origin of wealth.

Cyprus has enacted a new sanctions framework that criminalises the violation or circumvention of EU restrictive measures.

The main repositories of digital evidence are computers, storage devices, telephones, networks, cloud servers and emails.