March 11, 2010 7:53 PM

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Cypriot president's body reburied

The body of former Cypriot president Tassos Papadopoulos is to be reburied three months after it was dug up from its grave and stolen. The ex-leader's family will hold a brief reburial ceremony today at the suburban Nicosia cemetery from where the former president's corpse was snatched on December 11. Officials have said the bizarre theft that shocked the island was a case of body snatching for financial gain.<br/><br/>Police said a suspect, remorseful over his alleged role in the theft, named a convicted murderer as the alleged mastermind of the theft, calling the shots from his prison cell. Police said the suspect told Papadopoulos' family where the body was hidden and asked for money, but never received it. The man and one other suspect are in custody.

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