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NICOSIA, Cyprus, March 9 (UPI) -- Police confirmed Tuesday the remains found in a Nicosia cemetery were those stolen from former Greek Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos's grave.
Police received a telephone tip Monday a body had been left at the cemetery with suggestions it could be the former president, the Cyprus Mail reported.
Police spokesman Michalis Katsounotos said the Cyprus Institute of Genetics and Neurology rushed testing through overnight.
"There has been a DNA identification and the body indeed belongs to the former president," he said.
The 74-year-old Papadopoulos died in November 2008 and his remains were stolen a day before the first anniversary of his death last year, the report said.
At the time, police said the thieves worked in a heavy rainstorm and manually dug up several feet of earth under a 500-pound granite slab to steal the remains. The coffin was left behind, the newspaper said.
The cemetery was sealed off Tuesday as investigators searched it and the telephone booth from where the tip originated, the report said.
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