The Central of Cyprus (CBC) informed last week the commercial banks of the island that it will amend the Anti Money Laundering Directive to include a new definition of shell companies. The aim of the CBC is “force” commercial banks to cease any business relationship with companies coming from zero tax jurisdictions like Seychelles, Belize and the BVI and introduce… Read More
The School of Law of UClan Cyprus organised a very interesting AML Seminar last Saturday 19/05/2018. The seminar entitled “How to Structure an Anti-Money Laundering/Counter-Terrorist Financing Compliance Manual” was presented by the experts in the field Mr. George Chr. Pelaghias (lawyer and certified anti-money laundering specialist, founding member of ACAMS and member of its board of directors an
It is a general principle of company law that an individual shareholder cannot sue for wrongs done to a company or complain of any internal irregularities. This principle is widely known as the rule in Foss v Harbottle. The rule in Foss v Harbottle In Foss v Harbottle (1842), two shareholders commenced legal action against the… Read More
According to EU Regulation no. 600/2014, banking and financial institutions must present to their supervising authorities reports containing complete and accurate details of executed transactions. This starts from the 3rd of January 2018. In order to achieve this reporting, the identification of the legal entities (companies) involved in the transactions is done through the Legal Entity Identifier
VAT introduced on the supply of building land and business. On 3 November 2017, the Cyprus Parliament voted the amendments in the Cyprus VAT legislation fulfilling its obligation to the EU to subject the supply of building land to VAT. Cyprus had received a derogation (Article 383 of the VAT Directive) to continue exempting building… Read More
Το πρόσφατο περιστατικό με το σεξιστικό δημοσίευμα υπαλλήλου του Δημοκρατικού Συναγερμού (ΔΗΣΥ), κατά της βουλευτού κ. Ειρήνης Χαραλαμπίδου και στη συνέχεια η απόλυση του, εγείρει, μεταξύ άλλων, ενδιαφέρουσες πτυχές που άπτονται του εργατικού δικαίου και της νομιμότητας της απόλυσης. Ειδικότερα, τίθεται το ζήτημα κατά πόσο είναι δικαιολογημένη (και άρα νόμιμη) η απόλυση υπαλλήλου ο οποίος… Read Mo