The investigation, which was launched after Al Jazeera tv revealed that there was corruption inside the scope of the “citizenship in return for funding” (Golden Passport) software, which was carried out as a method out of the financial disaster that Southern Cyprus entered in 2013, was accomplished and went to courtroom final Thursday.
The Greek Cypriot press has introduced the names of 10 people and authorized entities towards whom lawsuits have been filed, together with Marios Dimitriadis, who was the Minister of Public Works and Transport within the authorities of former Greek Cypriot President Nikos Anastasiadis.
Fileleftheros drew consideration to the truth that authorized entities have been included among the many defendants for the primary time within the “golden passport” case, and he gave the names of 10 people and authorized entities accused of corruption, bribery, establishing a company to commit crimes and legitimizing the revenue obtained from unlawful actions:
“Marios Dİmitriadis (eski Bayındırlık ve Ulaştırma Bakını), Andreas Dimitriadis, Dimitris Dimitriadis, Yorgos Dimitriadis, Eleni Simillidi, Jing Wang, Josef Friedrich Santin, Vasiliki Yeorgiu Santin, Andreas Demetriades @ Co LLC, Delsk (Cyprus) Businees Companies Ltd.”
The report famous that the previous Minister of Public Works and Transport, alongside along with his father and brothers, have been additionally on the listing of defendants accused of interfering with the approval of citizenship purposes.
Within the police investigation, knowledge was obtained displaying that the folks towards whom the case was filed have been concerned within the “granting of citizenship to 19 Asian 'traders'” and {that a} civil servant working on the Chinese language embassy in Southern Cyprus and a married man performed a catalyst function in attracting traders. It was additionally decided that among the cash given by those that wished to accumulate citizenship was transferred to 3rd events by way of corporations and {that a} 25 % fee was paid throughout the process.
In his headline “Anastasidais and 5 of His Ministers’ Shut Ties to the Passport Trade… Anastasiadis and His Ministers’ Battle of Curiosity on Golden Passports is Apparent,” Haravgi famous that Nikos Anastasiadis and different members of his authorities have very shut ties to the workplaces that course of purposes for golden passports accredited by the cupboard.
Based on the information, AKEL made a press release yesterday on the event of the lawsuit filed towards the previous Minister of Public Works and Transport, reminding that the present Greek Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides was additionally a cupboard member throughout the Anastasiadis authorities and that he has not but appointed an interrogation officer regardless of promising to take action throughout his election marketing campaign.
AKEL Press Spokesperson Yorgos Kukumas stated yesterday that members of the Anastasiadis authorities “utilized for the golden passport with one hand and accredited these purposes within the Council of Ministers with the opposite hand.” Kukumas
He added that “DISY remains to be defending Anastasiadis in the present day and masking up the discrediting of the nation.”
The newspaper additionally wrote that not solely Anastasiadis and DISI, but in addition 5 ministers of the Anastasiadis authorities had shut ties with the “golden passport sector” and that DISI was concerned within the scandal with all its buildings, “as a result of in lots of instances, the get together acquired giant contributions from individuals who later acquired golden passports with the approval of the cupboard.”
The newspaper wrote that Nikos Anastasiadis was related to the workplace known as “Nikos Hr. Anastasiadis & Companions”, which submitted 57 citizenship purposes to the Greek Cypriot Council of Ministers between 2013 and 2019, which it described as “one of many main gamers”.
Based on the information, former Minister of Public Works and Transport Marios Dimitriadis is related to the workplace known as “Andras Dimitriadis & Sia DEPE”, which belongs to his household and made 272 purposes throughout the identical interval. It was famous that 102 of the 272 purposes have been made and accredited throughout Dimitriadis’ time period as minister.
It was additionally famous that Kyriakos Kusios was related to the workplace of “Kusios, Korfiotis, Papaharalambus”, which submitted 7 purposes, however the purposes have been made earlier than Kusios joined the federal government of Anastasiadis.
Emiliu Yoliti is related to the corporate Harneys (Aristodimu, Loizidis, Yolitis DEPE), which submitted 7 purposes previous to his appointment to the Ministry of Justice.
Natasha Pilidu additionally labored for years at an workplace known as PwC, one of many “large gamers”, which submitted 221 purposes.
The newspaper additionally reported on the assertion by Greek Cypriot Police Press Officer Christos Andreu that 200 bins of proof have been submitted to the courtroom as a part of the applying made on Thursday.
In the meantime, Politis reported in its headline “Dimitriu Responds to Criticism of Masking Up ‘Others’ Scandals… Factors to Nikos Anastasiadis and Intentional Distraction” that Marios Dimitriadis denied the costs towards him, saying that this was an “try and distract the eye from these actually accountable.”
Stating {that a} supply near Dimitriou criticized the Greek Cypriot Authorized Division by speaking concerning the “efforts to cover the scandals” of former Greek Cypriot President Nikos Anastasiadis, the newspaper identified {that a} well-known businessman from Larnaca was introduced from the place of a defendant to the place of a witness to testify towards traders of the A. Dimitriadis Legislation Workplace.