Civil servant arrested on bribe allegation

AN EMPLOYEE of the Department of Road Transport in Limassol was arrested yesterday, following a complaint that he had asked for a bribe in order to speed up a licensing procedure, police said yesterday.

A 30-year-old third country national reported to police that the 53-year-old civil servant had asked her to give him £200 in cash in order to speed up the process of issuing a usage certificate for her imported left-hand drive car.

The report was made on Monday and at 5pm and on the same day police arrested the 53-year-old man. The amount of £200 in cash was found in his possession, which the woman claims she had given to him previously in exchange for her vehicle documents.

The man was taken before Nicosia Court yesterday where he was remanded in custody for three days.

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