Attorney General George Savvides and Assistant Attorney General Savvas Angelides met with police on Friday to discuss cases of alleged illegal naturalisations under the Cyprus Citizenship by Investment programme.
These meetings have been established for the better coordination of the two bodies and according to information, there soon will be developments in some of these cases, daily Phileleftheros explains.
Service providers, as well as politically-connected individuals, will face trial for allegedly illegal provision of Cypriot citizenships to foreign businessmen.
The cases are based on the findings of an ad-hoc enquiry committee tasked to investigate misuse of the controversial Cyprus Citizenship by Investment programme. The defendants face charges of conspiracy and corruption.
Editor’s note: an earlier version of this story mentioned the name of Egyptian businessman Mohammed Salem as a defendant in one of the cases. It is clarified that neither Salem nor members of his family are facing trial for acquiring a Cypriot passport.
