Light up some more contracts for death except for the one against the journalist Giorgos Karaivaz they hope the homicide cops will shoot. It is no coincidence that Giorgos Mitsu, the owner of a gas station, who was killed in June 2022, is mentioned in the materials of the Karaivaz case. gas station on Marathon Avenue. Just three lines of the 23-page document indicate that one of those arrested in the case of the murder of a journalist, aged 40, was in contact with the murdered gas seller. “They were previously checked together during a search of a police car,” court documents say.

According to police sources, the 40-year-old Karaiwaz arrested in the murder case was responsible for the safety of the gas station businessman. The latter, a few days before the murder, allegedly agreed to replace members of his personal bodyguard at the suggestion of a 40-year-old man. The murder coincided with a time when the businessman had no guardianship.

Execution of Skaftouros

The murder of a 38-year-old man was attributed to the actions of the so-called Greek mafia, as was the cold-blooded execution a month and a half ago Giannis Skafthorou. Skaftouros or Big John was a “heavy” name in the night and was active, like Giorgos Mitsu, in the oil trade.

Recently, messages that the murdered businessman exchanged on cell phones became known. George Mitsu and a current police officer who allegedly worked for his security detail. In communication with each other, they agreed to put them in key positions in Safety and to Financial police officials within their sphere of influence.

Two brothers, aged 48 and 40, were arrested on Friday for the murder of Giorgos Karaivaz. They are being charged with manslaughter by complicity, with an apology to an investigator scheduled for Wednesday tomorrow. Aggravating circumstances against them are the use of a cleaning company van owned by the older of the two brothers in the murder plan, and the fact that their mobile phones were inactive during the period before and after the murder.

OUR GREEK POLICE. failed to determine the role of each of those arrested in murder. However, he provides evidence designed to demonstrate, without naming him, a moral criminal and therefore a possible motive for the cold-blooded execution of a journalist.

While searching for the killers of a prominent police reporter, Homicide operatives stumble upon previously unsolved cases.

One of those arrested, aged 40, was accused of participating in a racket that sold protection in 150 stores in Attica. In this particular case, 37 people were prosecuted, and the trial ended only at the end of 2021. The 40-year-old allegedly raised money for defense at a bar in the Kerameikos area. With the same extortion ring both of the three defendants in the Karaivaz case, except those arrested, are connected. No arrest warrants have been issued for them, but it must be considered possible that they will be summoned by the investigator to give explanations.

mobile store

This is the alleged leader of the group, sentenced to many years in prison, and another leading member of the gang. Their connection to the Karaiwaz case comes indirectly, first through a mobile phone shop in Ampelokipi. From there, it turned out that the two mobile phones used by the perpetrators of the assassination of the journalist during the execution of their plan were bought and belong to “front men” from Bangladesh.

In 2015 he bought sim cards and circle bravo who extorted money from 150 cafes and bars in Attica. The store owner, questioned by police, did not deny knowing two specific people.

The same persons, according to sources in the Security Service, are also involved in the murder of boxer Haris Kontogiorgis in December 2021 in a sports hall in Galatsi. Security officials’ informants described them as the group they said caused “great damage” by killing, warning that they were planning an assassination. Contogiorgi or Dirty Harry. Two weeks later, the 38-year-old boxer was indeed killed outside the Galati gym.

In the 2015 case file on the actions of the extortion group, specifically on page 144, there is a reference to the murdered journalist. The police recorded the conversation of one of the leading members of the group with his “brain”. The first tells the second that he was told by a sworn security police officer that the Extortionist was investigating them and that the journalist assisted the police efforts by providing them with the telephone number of the defendants in the case. .

All of the above will be judged in the context of the main investigation, with legal commentary that EL.AS. made certain “jumps” in order to close the case and transfer it to the prosecutor’s office.