Baby scam

A CHOULOU man has been given a three-day remand for his alleged part in scamming a childless couple out of £8,000 to allegedly speed up their adoption of a Romanian child.

Paphos district court remanded Andreas Chrysostomou, 48, on Sunday following a short man-hunt when the couple went to the police with their story.

The police yesterday said that the couple would not be named at this stage and that Chrysostomou was married to a Rumanian national. He was not a government official, the police said and seemed to have allegedly offered to help the couple for payment because of his connections to the country.

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