In today’s episode, Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis rejected accusations of a police cover-up in the death of a 24-year-old Pakistani national, calling the claims by political parties premature and unsubstantiated. 

Elsewhere, a Nicosia football club will be facing trial this week over the non-payment of €2.3 million in social insurance contributions, it emerged on Monday.

All this and more in today’s Daily News Briefing brought to you by the Cyprus Beat.