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Athens News Agency: News in English, 08-08-25
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[01] Part of ransom found
[01] Part of ransom found
Police on Monday confiscated weapons and retrieved part of the
ransom paid for the release of the president of the Federation of
Industries of Northern Greece (SBBE) George Mylonas to abductors by
his family in June 2006, in ongoing investigations in Thessaloniki
following last week's arrest of the kidnapping's mastermind, escaped
convict Vassilis Paleokostas, and seven accomplices.
Thessaloniki Security Police chief Dimitris Papadopoulos told
ANA-MPA that an early-morning search of an apartment in the Peraia
region of the northern Greek capital, which had been rented in
recent months by the kidnapping ring and was used as one of its
hideouts.
He said that 2.9 million euros in marked bills from the ransom
money, four submachine guns, two pistols, two handgrenades, 1910
bullet, silencers, gas masks and other objects were found in the
apartment.
The weaponry will be examined by ELAS (Greek Police) ballistics
experts, while the investigations are still ongoing.
Caption: ANA-MPA file photo of convict Vassilis Paleokostas(C)
alleged to be the mastermind of George Mylonas' abduction
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