Ukrainian national gets two-and-a-half-year sentence for property usurpation

A 41-year-old man was sentenced to two and a half years in prison by the Nicosia permanent criminal court on Friday after admitting to the exploitation of Greek Cypriot properties in the north.

According to a police statement, the offences centred on the advertising and promotion of properties illegally constructed on land belonging to Greek Cypriot owners in villages in Kyrenia and Famagusta....