A trove of emails shows that Deloitte Cyprus helped firms beneficially owned by Roman Abramovich attempt to skirt tax and disclosure obligations by retroactively transferring assets to British Virgin Islands companies using backdated paperwork.

Water use is an environmental issue with high public interest, and the large-scale extraction of water – particularly in a country facing water scarcity – should be subject to public scrutiny. However, despite repeated attempts, CIReN was not able to get information on major water extractors on the island. In withholding the information, relevant authorities cited personal data-protection and commercial confidentiality.

Cyprus regulates tens of thousands of groundwater abstraction points. But incomplete records, limited inspections and patchy meter data mean authorities still cannot reliably determine how much water is actually being pumped. Meanwhile, many of the island’s aquifers remain under severe pressure.

When the commercial surrogacy agency World Center of Baby told clients it was filing for bankruptcy hopeful parents and pregnant surrogates were thrown into chaos. The company’s opaque ownership and operations raise questions over its business practices, and who was responsible for the human suffering left in its wake.

Suspects detained by Cypriot police in murder-for-hire network have criminal histories, including links to organized crime

How Divided Nicosia Is Quietly Addressing a Water Crisis

A hearing regarding the deadly shooting of Cemil Önal today in a Dutch court revealed that a key suspect was arrested in possession of a car with stolen license plates loaded with weapons only five days before the murder.

A year-long investigation by Investigate Europe and media partners in 15 countries uncovers a vast network of black-market betting websites operating throughout the continent and beyond.

A string of criminal investigations – and an Interpol Red Notice – have trailed Turkish online betting magnate Fedlan Kılıçaslan as he expands his business across Europe. Now, reporters have found his Poland-registered company promoted gambling sites despite having no license to do so.

A landmark corruption inquiry recommends criminal charges against the former President, his former law firm, and top associates over an alleged influence-trading scheme linked to Russian billionaires and a massive bank collapse.

Cypriot authorities say alleged 1MDB scandal mastermind’s legal team did not oppose seizure of 6 million euro villa he bought as part of their country’s now-scrapped “golden passport” scheme.

On weekends in a laboratory in Cyprus, long after the experiments themselves had ended, Dr. Andreas Ioannides sat alone analyzing brain data that, in his own words, revealed […]

CIReN has reached out to the source of the photograph of a blindfolded person, presumed to be a Greek Cypriot prisoner of war (POW) from 1974, which has […]

The Republic of Cyprus, which currently holds the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, has slipped three more places in 2026 in the World Press Freedom […]

The Agorà application used by the Cypriot member of the European Parliament, Fidias Panayiotou, and his Direct Democracy Cyprus party does not provide the required personal data protection measures, and publicly exposes almost 40,000 users’ personal information, according to an independent audit confirmed by CIReN. 

A Russian national was arrested last year in the northern part of Cyprus and extradited to Russia via Turkey on fraud charges

The Paris Judicial Tribunal is holding the first hearing on criminal charges of aggravated money laundering against Russian businessman Dmitry Klyuev, the alleged ringleader of a massive tax fraud.

The Cyprus Medical Council drafted alerts in 2019 about two doctors in a European Union warning system but did not share them with other countries until October 2025., shortly after the publication of a cross-border investigation on the subject, records viewed by CIReN show.

Abolfazl Shamkhani, the son of a political adviser to Iran’s slain Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, invested in an investment company in Cyprus with a Dominica passport obtained under an assumed name. Reporters also found millions in luxury Dubai real estate held by Abofazl and his older brother Hossein Shamkhani, a sanctioned oil magnate, under assumed names and Dominica passports.