Feature

Journalists and experts have sounded the alarm over draft legislation in Cyprus that would allow for court-ordered surveillance of journalists and their acquaintances in an attempt to uncover their sources.

Kyriakos Pierides
17.04.2025
Cyprus Seeks to Legalise Spying on Journalists
Investigation

An investigation into leaked data exposes scam call centers whose employees convinced thousands of people to make “investments” on fake trading platforms. A call center in Cyprus was part of an operation based in Israel that appears to have targeted 26,810 individuals around the world.

Andreas Cosma, Christodoulos Mavroudis, Kyriakos Pieridis and Begoña P. Ramírez (InfoLibre)
5.03.2025
Scam Empire: Cyprus Served as a Hub in Alleged Fraud Ring
Investigation

The OCCRP (Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project) team of journalists has uncovered details about the multi-million-dollar betting business of Turkish businessman Halil Falyalı. Falyalı’s former CFO Cemil […]

Edik Baghdasaryan (Hetq)
21.02.2025
Vigen Badalyan’s Turkish “Gambit”
Feature

When an apparent fraudster impersonated a famous football agent and asked FC Barcelona for 1 million euros, sources say the club attempted to send the money. Though the payment was eventually blocked, experts worry the incident is a sign that football remains vulnerable to corruption despite repeated calls for stronger oversight.

Antonio Baquero and Angus Peacock (OCCRP), Andreas Cosma (CIReN) , Sique Rodriguez and Adrià Soldevila (Cadena Ser), Siem Eikelenboom (Follow the Money), Bastian Obermaier (Paper Trail Media)
17.10.2024
FC Barcelona Almost Scores Own Goal in Lewandowski Transfer Scam

For years the absence of transparency in media ownership in the Republic of Cyprus has held the country’s global media pluralism ranking much lower than would be expected of a European Union member state and, more importantly, has tainted the integrity of the journalism produced.

CIReN
23.09.2024
Who Owns the Media?

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