In addition to the two arrested, the case file includes three other persons who are being investigated for their role in the cold execution of Giorgos Karaivaz, according to a report by Panagiotis Spyropoulos.

Five names are included in the file of the case of his brutal murder Giorgos Karaivaz, the two are the arrested, while for the other three, while their names are in the case file, there is still no sufficient incriminating evidence to issue arrest warrants yet. The two arrested are a 40-year-old bodybuilder who has been charged in 2015 with attempted murder, robbery, bodily harm and in 2018 with threatening, while his 48-year-old brother, who has been charged with robbery in 2012 along with the 40-year-old and two other people.

As for the other three names, they are:

A 53-year-old who is called “bush”, “big” or “crazy” is serving a multi-year prison sentence for a criminal organization, and in fact he was co-accused with some of those involved in the case of Giorgos Karaivaz, while in July 2020 he had also been the target of an attempt of homicide outside a parking lot of a pastry shop in Voula and was spared because he fled to his armored vehicle. His involvement in the case, at least so far, has to do with a “middle man” scheme to supply the Bangladeshi “business” mobile phone SIM cards bought from a mobile phone shop in Panormou and used by the killers.

A 54-year-old alleged to be the driver of the van that appears to have been used on the eve, but also on the day, of the murder. He too has been accused in the past of criminal organization, murder, and extortion, and was co-accused with the “bush”. The connection of the store manager with the 54-year-old and the “shrubs” is being examined. The mobile phones of those arrested were dormant the day before and the day of the murder.

A 50-year-old “assistant”, who has not been accused of any cause, and holds a valid driving license.

It is noted that the dialogue of one of the arrested, the 40-year-old, with his relative on the day of the arrest, April 26, is revealing. The 40-year-old tries to justify why the van was found in that area, to create an alibi because he knows he is being watched with his brother, however the female relative seems to be… knocking it down.

The dialogue in question

  • 40-year-old: But Stratos has jobs there and we used to hand out leaflets, to get cleanings where we were together.
  • Relative: In Alimo?
  • 40 year old: Yes.
  • Relative: No good, who says that?
  • 40 year old: Me, who says that? It’s all blockages over there, what are you talking about?
  • Relative: Another is in, my internet boy, he has put it. He doesn’t have it from… In Alimo he doesn’t have it.
  • 40-year-old: And from flyers, he’s gotten a job there.
  • Relative: Oh, I don’t know. I think there are no jobs there because with a car you don’t do that, to go for a job there. No, my boy. No it has not. No, no, I’m telling you, that’s for sure, I’m telling you, it doesn’t come from there.
  • 40 year old: Yes.
  • Relative: No no no.

It is noted that for the first time a request is being made to Europol in order to do so data recovery from online applications to seek communications of this type from those involved.