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Our Firm provides focused legal services to criminal related practice areas, as well as criminal advisory to corporations and individuals.

Practice Areas

Bribery & Corruption

Corruption is basically the abuse of power for private gain. Corruption may take many forms, such as bribery, trading in influence, abuse of functions, but can also hide behind nepotism, conflicts of interest, or revolving doors between the public and the private sectors.

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Sexual Offences

Rape and sexual violence are among the most severely underreported forms of violence in Cyprus, as elsewhere in Europe. Rape, including marital rape, is punishable by law with a maximum sentence of life in prison and for attempted rape 10 years in prison.

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Drug Offences

Pursuant to Cyprus Law, drugs are classified as A, B or C according to their level of harm, with class A drugs causing the most. Penalties for drug use in Cyprus extend to life imprisonment for all classes, but until today a life term has never been imposed.

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Special Criminal Procedures

The Cyprus Criminal Justice System also includes a number of Courts procedures dealing exclusively with violations of the provisions of Income Tax Law, Social Insurance regulation, uncovered cheques, cases concerning Municipalities and Community Authorities, and other cases of a private nature, such a Private Prosecution.

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Impaired Driving

The main law was updated on the 5th November 2010. An addendum regarding speeding and drink driving was made on the 15th June 2012. It should be noted that Municipalities and similar entity’s are able enact laws and impose fines.

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Disciplinary Procedure

A disciplinary procedure is a process for dealing with perceived employee misconduct both at the public and private sector. Especially the public sector, such as the Police, the National Guard, the Medical or the Bar Association, is governed by rules of conduct and ethics of which may lead to a number of penalties

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Death Inquest

Either by natural causes or by medical or other negligence, sudden deaths are a common occurrence. Death inquest procedure provides the framework through which the family members of the deceased are in search of the cause of death.

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Crimes Against Persons

The term “crimes against the person” refers to a broad array of criminal offenses which usually involve bodily harm or such threat, or other actions committed against the will of an individual, such as manslaughter, murder, infanticide, causing death by want of precaution or by carelessness, assault and kidnapping etc.

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International & European arrest warrant

The European arrest warrant (“EAW”) is a simplified cross-border judicial surrender procedure – for the purpose of prosecuting or executing a custodial sentence or detention order. A warrant issued by one EU country’s judicial authority is valid in the entire territory of the EU. It has replaced the lengthy extradition procedures that used to exist between EU countries.

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Criminal Advisory

Business Crime

Nowadays, the regulatory challenges faced by businesses in all industries are significant and sometimes may be difficult for the companies to catch up with the continuous production of laws that may lay criminal liability. These risks will only increase in the following years given an growing interest on anti-money laundry regulation, data protection law,  corporate responsibility and the appetite of and far reaching powers granted to the regulatory authorities and law enforcement bodies across the globe in response to the series of high profile scandals that have emerged both inside and outside the financial sector in recent times.

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Corporate Crime

Strictly speaking, corporate crime is essentially the organizational crime, type of white-collar crime committed by individuals within their legitimate occupations, for the benefit of their employing organization. In general, the schemes associated with the corporate crime may take so many forms that is impossible to list them all and may include actions or negligence of the company, its directors, its employees or its customers.

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Financial Services

Due to the often complex nature of financial services, detecting and preventing fraud within the financial sector poses an almost insurmountable challenge. The threats are both domestic and international. hey may come from within the organisation or outside it. Increasingly, internal and external fraudsters combine to commit significant fraudulent acts.

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Financial institutions

Financial institutions are regulated by a plethora of laws and shall seek criminal support, for example, in cases where a corporate customer, a member of its management or a representative of the customer is the subject of an investigation by a law enforcement agency or regulatory body. Financial Institutions must also consider any obligations they might have to report suspicions of money laundering (including any successful fraud). 

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Technology, Media and Telecom Sector

Acted as defense – The Cyprus University of Technology (“CUT”) concerns the actions of the former director of finance at CUT and the head of the university’s property management service, who have been charged with offences including conspiracy to commit a felony, receiving bribes, forgery

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Real Estate

Head of ENT General Hospital of Nicosia and Larnaka, who had been facing 188 counts in connection with bribery, money-laundering, corruption, and conspiracy, over the period from 2008-2016.

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