The Supreme Court, after an appeal, reduced to two years the prison sentence imposed on CUT professor Kostas Kostas, for offences committed in the context of funding from the European Union for the implementation of European programmes in which Cyprus, through the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT), participated as a partner.
For the same offences the Court of Cassation had imposed a four-year prison sentence for money laundering offences and also a concurrent nine-month prison sentence for the offence of abuse of power on Rosita Pavlidou.
According to the court's decision, Kostas, with the above illegal acts, for the period 2011-2016, through 7 European programmes, helped to extract the total amount of €197,311. Part of the above amount, namely, €22,500, went to the
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