Anti-corruption report recommends prosecution of former minister over state land allocation

A report by the Independent Authority Against Corruption has recommended the criminal prosecution of a former minister, according to findings described as highly critical, over a series of state land management decisions and related transactions that it says may have caused significant losses to public assets.

At the centre of the investigation is the allocation of valuable state land in Ayia Napa to the Church of Cyprus as compensation for expropriated ecclesiastical land in Engomi. The...