Police warned crime boss of plots against his life

Police’s organized transgression unit twice intervened to warn Giorgos Moschouris of progressive plots to take his life, according to aggregate sources acquainted with the investigation, months earlier the elder Greek Mafia fig was fatally changeable successful April 2025 successful the bluish Athens suburb of Halandri.

The 55-year-old, known by the nickname “Thamnakias,” was killed successful a hail of gunfire when assailants equipped with Kalashnikov rifles opened fire, hitting him with 54 bullets. The revelations emerged pursuing caller arrests linked to his killing.

According to accusation received by officers from the so-called “Greek FBI,” an onslaught against Moschouris had been planned astatine an amusement venue helium was known to predominant regularly. In an effort to forestall the assassination, constabulary urgently summoned him to their office (GADA), where investigators warned him during two backstage meetings successful September and October 2024 that declaration killings had been ordered against him.

Moschouris reportedly responded by insisting helium had withdrawn from transgression enactment and declined to participate a witness extortion program.

He was considered 1 of the astir influential figures successful Greece’s organized transgression underworld and had antecedently been convicted arsenic the person of a extortion racket targeting dozens of businesses, chiefly successful the southern suburbs of Athens. Authorities besides linked him to the substance trade.

In 2020, unidentified gunmen attempted to termination him successful the parking batch of a bakery concatenation successful Vari, eastbound of Athens, firing 15 shots and wounding him successful the abdomen.

Police sources accidental that successful the last signifier of his transgression activity, Moschouris allegedly sought to grow into cigaret smuggling, a determination that brought him into struggle with a radical of taste Greek criminals from the erstwhile Soviet Union. Authorities property astatine slightest 4 killings of Greek Mafia figures to members of that group.