Plot thickens in gangland execution

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Police investigating the April 24, 2025, sidesplitting of alleged underworld fig Giorgos Moschouris successful Halandri, bluish Athens, said they recovered an unexpected point wrong his armored BMW: a lawsuit record connected the unsolved execution of writer Giorgos Karaivaz successful 2021.

Authorities connected Thursday announced arrests and charges against 5 radical linked to Moschouris’ killing, describing the suspects arsenic hardened criminals.

One is already successful situation successful a kidnapping case, while different was described by constabulary arsenic “a antheral of Giannis Lalas,” who was killed months agone astatine a edifice connected Mount Parnassos.

Investigators said the aforesaid radical is tied to a bombing astatine a αυτοκίνητο dealership successful Nea Erythraia, besides successful the city’s north, where Moschouris bought the armored BMW and reportedly had affable relations with the owner.

Police had viewed the bombing arsenic a warning directed astatine Moschouris. The suspects are besides accused of monitoring the lawyer of convicted transgression Panagiotis Vlastos with surveillance devices placed astatine her location and successful her car.

Police linked Moschouris’ sidesplitting to a struggle for power of extortion rackets and cigaret and substance smuggling connected to organized transgression networks. Police said investigators identified the suspects by combining information camera footage, eyewitness testimony and different grounds gathered during the enquiry into Moschouris.