I'm not going to make any more comments on what Conor may or may not have done or said because his case is not mine and I do not know.
I can only speak from my own experiences of buying, initially, 7 properties in Cyprus, which I subsequently reduced to 4.
I've never had a developer send completion certificates to acting solicitors, in fact I have been told direct lies by developers who have tried to get the next stage payments prior to them being due.
In only one case has a completion certificate been sent and that was to my bank when the whole final payment was taken when the building was still little more than a shell.