Between 2008 and 2017, a total of 7,500 individuals obtained Cypriot citizenship through the investment programme, with the cabinet first becoming involved in 2021, a senior officer told the Nicosia criminal court on Wednesday.
Of that number 3,250 were investors and the rest members of their families.
Senior administrative officer at the interior ministry Christina Kaoulla had been head of the naturalisation control unit until the end of 2020. She
