{"id":10041,"date":"2024-06-11T16:58:36","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T13:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vrikislegal.com\/?p=10041"},"modified":"2024-06-12T17:00:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T14:00:20","slug":"legal-update-for-criminal-code-cap-154","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrikislegal.com\/sv\/legal-update-for-criminal-code-cap-154\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Update for Criminal Code, Cap. 154"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cyprus Parliament has proceeded with an amendment to the Criminal Code, Cap. 154 on the 31\/05\/2024, effectively expanding the criminal offence of \u201cPublic Mischief\u201d and updating the applicable monetary penalty under this. As such, the new Section 115 of the Criminal Code now provides that:<\/p>\n

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  1. Any person who knowingly makes to any police officer or to a person who is authorized to undertake <\/u><\/strong>interrogations, in connection to the performance of a criminal office under the Criminal Code or any other law<\/u><\/strong>, a false statement concerning an imaginary offence, shall be guilty of the offence of effecting a public mischief and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two thousand euros<\/u><\/strong> or imprisonment for up to one year.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    (the underlined text being the additions\/amendments to the Law).<\/p>\n

    The above is now more expansive the its application encompasses offences which are included in any other law of the Republic of Cyprus.<\/p>\n

    For any further guidance regarding this procedure or if you require an initial consultation, please do not hesitate to contact our Law Firm at info@vrikislegal.com<\/a>, +357 22 251 777 or +357 25 261 777 or please visit our office in Nicosia or Limassol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Cyprus Parliament has proceeded with an amendment to the Criminal Code, Cap. 154 on the 31\/05\/2024, effectively expanding the criminal offence of \u201cPublic Mischief\u201d and updating the applicable monetary penalty under this. As such, the new Section 115 of the Criminal Code now provides that: Any person who knowingly makes to any police officer or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10042,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,166],"tags":[171],"class_list":["post-10041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-criminal-law","category-cyprus-law","tag-criminal-offences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrikislegal.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrikislegal.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrikislegal.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrikislegal.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrikislegal.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrikislegal.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrikislegal.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrikislegal.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrikislegal.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrikislegal.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}