Other reasons for that move included the Cypriot authorities' failure "to vigorously prosecute or convict trafficking offenders", as well as the fact that "very few prosecutions resulted in traffickers being held accountable in 2010." Another problem was that they failed "to convict or sentence any officials complicit in trafficking in Cyprus".
Među drugim razlozima te odluke su neuspeh kiparskih vlasti „da energično krivično goni i izrekne okrivljujuće presude počiniocima trgovine ljudima“ i činjenica da je „vrlo mali broj krivičnih postupaka doveo do toga da su trgovci bili proglašeni odgovornim u 2010. godini“. Još jedan problem bio je to što vlasti nisu „proglasile krivim ili osudile bilo kog zvaničnika za saučesništvo u trgovini ljudima na Kipru“.