The two defendants received a second deadline for their apologies for their involvement in the case of the abduction and murder of the 26-year-old student Mario Papageorgiouin August 2012, who were arrested a few days ago following a warrant from the judicial authorities.

The two defendants – 53 and 54 years old – were arrested a few days ago for premeditated homicide and kidnapping with complicity against the 26-year-old student and were given by the investigator, last Tuesday, May 9, a deadline to apologize today.

However, after they were brought before the judicial officer in the morning, they filed a request for the annulment of the procedure through their lawyers, which will be examined by the Misdemeanor Council. Thus, the defendants were given a new deadline and will appear before the investigator tomorrow at 08:00.

It is recalled that the two defendants are the first arrested in the context of the investigation launched by the authorities for persons who appear to have been involved in the case of the 26-year-old student Marios Papageorgiou, after evidence that was made available to the judicial authorities and emerged in the trials of the main defendants.

Who else is being investigated?

The new judicial investigation of the case was initiated by order of the Joint Jury Court of Appeal and mainly concerns nine personsincluding the family of the considered as brain of the criminal plan, who has been sentenced to life and additional multi-year imprisonment in the first and second degree.

The appellate court ordered that the role of the two be investigated sons of the 78-year-old, who are former and current police officers, of wife of , who has been convicted in the first instance for complicity in attempted extortion and robbery and is now accused of complicity in homicide, of of two people who received the deadline today and are brought to transported and disposed of the body of the student by order of the lifer, as well as four others persons involved in the case.

The 26-year-old Marios Papageorgiou disappeared on August 9, 2012, when he had left in his car from Diakofto Achaia, where he was on vacation with his mother, to Aigio. In the early hours of August 10, Mario’s mother had received a phone call from strangers asking her for 620,000 euros as a ransom, in order to free her child.

The lifer was involved in the case, as a family friend at the time, who convinced the mother not to notify the authorities immediately, and he undertook to take the necessary actions to find the 26-year-old. Along the way, however, it turned out that the friend was the “mastermind” of the whole affair.