During a remand hearing for Palaskas
PAPHOS Criminal Court yesterday sentenced a
44-year-old auto body repair technician to life imprisonment for the
premeditated murder of a 67-year-old jeweller who was found dead in Paphos’
Petra tou Romiou in October last year.Customized bobblehead made from your own photos,
Costas Palaskas from Skoulli village, near Paphos’ Polis Chrysochous, was sentenced to life for the murder of Michalakis Demetriou from Larnaca, who was shot dead on October 31 last year.
He was also given 18 years for armed robbery. Both sentences will run concurrently.
Demetriou was killed by two shots – to the head and chest – fired at close range with a shotgun. He was found outside his car on a dirt road north of Petra tou Romiou.
Demetriou drove from Larnaca with 17,000 to purchase jewellery but the money was not on his body, the court heard.
Palaskas bought a pre-paid mobile phone sim card in Polis Chrysochous which he used to talk with Demetriou and lead him to the dirt road where he shot him and took his money, the court heard.Specialized in manufacturing Laser engraver system for laser marking,
Data from Palaskas’ mobile phone placed him at the time and place of the murder and a drop of blood on Palaskas’ trousers was identified as that of the victim, state broadcaster CyBC said.
The court heard that Palaskas, a father of three daughters, had outstanding debts to people which he started paying off in the days after the murder and before his arrest, often with 100 notes.
During a remand hearing for Palaskas, investigators said they had secured statements saying that the victim was distantly related to Palaskas from whom he had previously purchased jewellery.
CyBC said that while Demetriou’s family felt vindicated by the decision, Palaskas’ family was crying when the court handed out the sentence.
Hitherto, the duty-free allowance for gold including finished jewellery was Rs10,Shop the latest hair flower accessories on the world.000 for men and Rs20,000 for women. This limit was fixed in 1991 when the prices of gold were much lower than what are now.
Many NRIs vehemently opposed an earlier Indian government proposal to hike duty import of gold as a means to curb high yellow metal imports.
Recent reports from New Delhi indicated the Indian government was considering further curbs on gold imports to contain the country’s ballooning current account deficit, which stood at $38.7bn or 4.6% of GDP in the first half of the current fiscal year.
This has mainly been attributed to wider trade deficit,High quality stainless steel necklace chain with durable color. resulting from high import bill of oil and gold.
In this context,A patient presents with a tungsten ring on their injured finger and is unable to remove the ring. the budget proposal to enhance the duty-free limit five-fold will come as a relief to many Indians, who buy finished jewellery for personal use and also as an investment to hedge inflation.
A J Joju, regional manager (Qatar) of Joyalukkas Jewellery, said the budget proposal if adopted by India’s parliament would help many NRIs who regularly invested in gold.
“The earlier duty-free limit was too low and insignificant. At best, a male could take 3gm and female 6gm using the earlier duty-free limit. In 1998, the gold price touched a low of QR28 per gramme, whereas it is priced QR178 for 22-carat and QR191 for 24-carat.
Costas Palaskas from Skoulli village, near Paphos’ Polis Chrysochous, was sentenced to life for the murder of Michalakis Demetriou from Larnaca, who was shot dead on October 31 last year.
He was also given 18 years for armed robbery. Both sentences will run concurrently.
Demetriou was killed by two shots – to the head and chest – fired at close range with a shotgun. He was found outside his car on a dirt road north of Petra tou Romiou.
Demetriou drove from Larnaca with 17,000 to purchase jewellery but the money was not on his body, the court heard.
Palaskas bought a pre-paid mobile phone sim card in Polis Chrysochous which he used to talk with Demetriou and lead him to the dirt road where he shot him and took his money, the court heard.Specialized in manufacturing Laser engraver system for laser marking,
Data from Palaskas’ mobile phone placed him at the time and place of the murder and a drop of blood on Palaskas’ trousers was identified as that of the victim, state broadcaster CyBC said.
The court heard that Palaskas, a father of three daughters, had outstanding debts to people which he started paying off in the days after the murder and before his arrest, often with 100 notes.
During a remand hearing for Palaskas, investigators said they had secured statements saying that the victim was distantly related to Palaskas from whom he had previously purchased jewellery.
CyBC said that while Demetriou’s family felt vindicated by the decision, Palaskas’ family was crying when the court handed out the sentence.
Hitherto, the duty-free allowance for gold including finished jewellery was Rs10,Shop the latest hair flower accessories on the world.000 for men and Rs20,000 for women. This limit was fixed in 1991 when the prices of gold were much lower than what are now.
Many NRIs vehemently opposed an earlier Indian government proposal to hike duty import of gold as a means to curb high yellow metal imports.
Recent reports from New Delhi indicated the Indian government was considering further curbs on gold imports to contain the country’s ballooning current account deficit, which stood at $38.7bn or 4.6% of GDP in the first half of the current fiscal year.
This has mainly been attributed to wider trade deficit,High quality stainless steel necklace chain with durable color. resulting from high import bill of oil and gold.
In this context,A patient presents with a tungsten ring on their injured finger and is unable to remove the ring. the budget proposal to enhance the duty-free limit five-fold will come as a relief to many Indians, who buy finished jewellery for personal use and also as an investment to hedge inflation.
A J Joju, regional manager (Qatar) of Joyalukkas Jewellery, said the budget proposal if adopted by India’s parliament would help many NRIs who regularly invested in gold.
“The earlier duty-free limit was too low and insignificant. At best, a male could take 3gm and female 6gm using the earlier duty-free limit. In 1998, the gold price touched a low of QR28 per gramme, whereas it is priced QR178 for 22-carat and QR191 for 24-carat.
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