Andreas Neocleous, the founder of a Cypriot law firm which was found guilty of bribing a former deputy attorney general, acquired a stake in the Cyprus Mail, one of the few remaining independent media on the island. Almost immediately, the paper deleted its coverage of the bribery conviction from its website.
![The Neocleous House, headquarters of the Neocleous law firm, in Limassol, Cyprus (Photo by OCCRP)](/images/stories/CCWatch/daily/image1.jpeg)