The Greek edition "Proto Thema" reported the details of the arrest and published a photo of Joachim Karsliadis, suspected of organizing the murder of the Russian hitman Alexander Solonik in 1997.
Earlier, Greek police detained a 48-year-old Greek citizen at the Macedonia International Airport in Thessaloniki. It is specified that he received citizenship by arriving from Georgia.
According to the newspaper, the Cypriot branch of Interpol notified the Greek police that the citizen is wanted for murder. In 2005, a warrant was issued for the murder of a Russian gangster and his 19-year-old girlfriend Svetlana Kotova.
In addition to a formal check, he underwent a fingerprint examination and was immediately detained.
He told police officers that he had traveled from Cyprus to Greece for the funeral of an acquaintance, and ten years ago he was in Greece in connection with conscription.
Aleksandr Solonik, a member of the Kurgan criminal gang and hired killer, also known as "Sasha the Makedonsky", was a repeat offender, one of whose most famous crimes was his escape from the SIZO No. 1 of Moscow "Matrosskaya Tishina".
According to the investigation, his comrades-in-arms managed to inject their own man into the prison as a convoy, who opened Solonik's cell at night, after which they together went down from the roof with the help of previously prepared climbing equipment.
Solonik was killed on January 31, 1997 in the Athenian suburb of Varibobi, along with the Russian model Svetlana Kotova who came to him.
On the eve it became known that one of those involved in the murder was detained in Greece.
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