
Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou on Tuesday identified Apoel as the Nicosia football club hauled into court over non-payment of social insurance contributions , with the club later reacting angrily that it was being named and shamed in this way.
A day earlier, it emerged that criminal charges had been filed against a Nicosia football club for owing the state €2.3 million in social insurance. The first hearing in the trial