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Police successful Athens person arrested three suspects successful transportation with the 2025 execution-style sidesplitting of a starring fig successful a violent organized transgression web dubbed the “Greek Mafia.”
Authorities said Thursday that a 4th suspect, already imprisoned successful transportation with a abstracted kidnapping case, has besides been implicated successful the shooting, while investigators are seeking to place two further suspects.
Giorgos Moschouris, 55, was ambushed and changeable aggregate times successful the backmost with a Kalashnikov battle firearm arsenic helium walked to his αυτοκίνητο extracurricular a aesculapian session successful the bluish suburb of Halandri connected April 24, 2025. It was the 2nd effort connected his life; helium survived a akin shooting successful southern Athens successful 2020.
His sanction had surfaced successful a large 2015 probe into an alleged extortion racket operating crossed the wider Attica region, a lawsuit successful which two constabulary officers were besides implicated.
Greece has recorded much than 20 contract-style killings since 2017 successful what authorities picture arsenic a violent and ongoing powerfulness struggle within the country’s underworld.
Police sources accidental the organized transgression unit, often called the “Greek FBI,” believes the deed connected Moschouris was ordered by a salient transgression brag from the erstwhile Soviet Union with Greek roots. That radical is allegedly linked to respective different murders within the “Greek Mafia,” a free web of gangs progressive successful extortion rackets, smuggling and different transgression activities.
Investigators besides judge the suspects whitethorn person been readying different killing. Police sources said they had allegedly placed cameras extracurricular the offices of a lawyer representing an imprisoned convicted felon and were intimately monitoring her movements.
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