The case towards Turkish Cypriot lawyer Akan Kürşat, who was arrested in Italy and later extradited to south Cyprus, the place his trial started within the south, has been dropped as a result of a witness died.
Reporter.com.cy, a web site broadcasting in south Cyprus, reported that Turkish Cypriot lawyer Akan Kürşat, who was dropped at court docket once more this morning, was acquitted as a result of the British chief prosecutor’s witness in his case had died just a few days in the past.
Kürşat was being tried for a complete of 20 totally different crimes, together with “conspiracy, conspiracy to commit a criminal offense, buying property via false illustration, illegal possession and use of land registered to another person, making an attempt to amass property by false pretences, fraud in gross sales.”
Akan Kürşat was arrested in Rome on New 12 months’s Eve primarily based on an arrest warrant dated 2007, and was extradited to the Republic of Cyprus on February 2 as a result of “usurpation of Greek Cypriot property” case within the TRNC.
On February 9, the court docket determined to launch Kürşat after paying bail of 10,000 Euros in money and 65,000 Euros in two financial institution checks from Cypriot banks.
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