What about other shareholder information available in the public domain?
Shareholder certificates are commonplace in Cyprus as many of your know.
On their face, they include the name of the shareholder and the number of shares each shareholder hold.
If you dig deeper, by carrying out a company search, you can find out the full name, date of birth, passport number, and address on top of the name and number of shares.
This means that any person can request shareholder information on any company. They only need to pay €20 to the Registrar of Companies.
Without a doubt the personal information contained in the UBO register and that of a share certificate are identical. The ban on accessing personal information should be extended to share certificates otherwise, and as long, the practice is allowed to continue everyone’s fundamental rights are breached.
