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