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Three men have been jailed for snatching the remains of late Cypriot President Tassos.

17 May,2011 09:20 pm

A court in Cyprus jailed three men for snatching the remains of late Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos from his grave. The defendants, two Greek Cypriot brothers and an Indian national have been jailed for 20 months.Three men were found guilty of illegal entry into a burial ground and exhuming a body, in a crime which shocked the east Mediterranean island. The court ruled one of the defendants had asked his brother to dig up the remains, hoping he could negotiate his own release from prison where he is serving two life sentences for murder. Police discovered the corpse three months later when the Indian defendant contacted Papadopouloss family asking for money. Papadopoulos died of lung cancer at the age of 74 in December 2008. He died less than a year after losing a bid for re-election to President Demetris Christofias.