'Tis the season to be merciful. Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou announces that more than 40 convicts will receive a presidential pardon this Christmas, but former Central Bank governor Christodoulos Christodoulou, who was found guilty of tax evasion on October 27 and sentenced to five months in prison, will not be among them.
Only inmates who have served at least half of their sentence by December 25, and were not convicted for murder, drugs or sex crimes can be pardoned.
“This year 43 people will receive the pardon; 23 Cypriots sentenced for criminal offences, five Cypriots who were in the open prison for debts and 15 foreign nationals,” Nicolaou says.
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