Cops accused of joining and aiding gang

A total of 7 constabulary officers are under probe for transportation with a pack made up of Russian-speaking Greeks of Georgian origin, whose members are accused of 4 homicides of members of the so-called “Greek Mafia.”

The Greek Police’s Internal Affairs Division believes three of the constabulary officers are afloat members of the Georgian gang, three person aided and abetted the criminals, and the seventh, the highest ranking of each who, until recently, commanded an particularly delicate station successful bluish Greece, “needs to beryllium further investigated.”

The part had already submitted a study successful May 2025; according to lawyers of some of the constabulary officers, astir are acceptable to look an examining magistrate connected Wednesday.

The three officers accused arsenic accessories informed the gang, done encrypted apps, of investigations targeting them.

The probe of the pack began when Ioannis Livasov, similar them originating from the erstwhile Soviet Union and progressive successful selling contraband cigarettes, was murdered successful February 2019. Police successful the bluish metropolis of Thessaloniki had said then that the execution looked similar a declaration killing.