Suspects in Cypriot businessman’s Limassol murder arrested in northern Greece

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Police successful bluish Greece person apprehended two suspects who are wanted successful transportation with the October 17 execution of a salient Cypriot businessman successful Limassol, Cyprus.

Stavros Demosthenous, 49, was the president of the Karmiotissa soccer club. He was gunned down adjacent his location successful Limassol and died arsenic his son drove him to hospital.

The suspects, who person been identified arsenic taste Greeks from Georgia, were located successful the bluish larboard metropolis of Thessaloniki aft Cyprus issued a European warrant for their arrest. 

They are believed to person been acting connected orders successful what is seen arsenic a declaration killing, though authorities are still investigating whether 1 oregon some really carried retired the assassination oregon they were acting arsenic accomplices.

Investigators with the Greek constabulary are not ruling retired the anticipation that the suspects are connected to the so-called “Greek mafia,” which is seen down respective akin declaration killings and has adjacent ties to organized transgression rackets tally by taste Greeks successful Georgia and different erstwhile Soviet states.