Simon Aykut Pleads Guilty to 40 Charges
Israeli property developer Simon Aykut, who is accused of developing and selling €43 million worth of property on Greek Cypriot land in the north, on Monday pled guilty to a total of 40 of the charges he faces, with the remaining 202 having been withdrawn.
The plea was entered after a deal between the prosecution and the defence.
Of the initial 242 charges he faced, 60 are related to “fraudulent real estate transactions”, 60 to being in possession of stolen land, 62 to money laundering, and 60 to conspiracy to commit a crime.
At the beginning of last month, Aykut’s son Yaacov Afik released a statement to mark 500 days since his father was arrested, criticising the Republic of Cyprus for the way he has been treated.
He compared the case being faced by his father to that being faced by the five Greek Cypriots who were arrested in the north, and said that “while political and diplomatic campaigns are being carried out for the Greek Cypriots, silence prevails for 75-year-old cancer patient Simon, who has been imprisoned in the south for 500 days”.
He added that he applied to the European Court of Human Rights over his father’s case six months ago, but that the case is “still pending”.
Source: Cyprus Mail
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