The Police had warned the Kalopsidiotis family about the plans of the perpetrators, the prosecution witness Giannis Theofanous Kalopsidiotis testified before the Permanent Criminal Court meeting in Larnaca, in the trial for the quadruple murder in Ayia Napa.
Theofanous, after referring to his close relationship with Fanos Kalopsidiotis and his shareholding and managerial participation in the family group's operations in Ayia Napa, implicated three of the four defendants, Panagiotis Pentafkas, Mario Christodoulou otherwise Beni and Benny.
For Pentafkas, the witness stated that Fanos had informed him that he was in danger from the accused and that the police informed them a few days before the murder of his grandfather, Giannis Kalopsidiotis, in 2014, that there was information that Pentafkas wanted to kill and the three, namely Giannis and Fanos Kalopsidiotis and himself.
He also testified that Fanos had sent letters to the Chief of Police and the Minister of Justice in which he named the persons from whom his life was in danger.
As for Marios Christodoulou, Theofanous testified that Fanos Kalopsidiotis informed him last April that executors had arrived from abroad to try to kill him and that Benis had picked up the executors from the illegally occupied airport in Tm. .
For the third accused Dejan Loey, the witness stated that he arrived in Cyprus last May, one month before the quadruple murder and had the exclusive duty of being Fanos' bodyguard. However, he claimed that in two cases, he noticed some suspicious movements.
Theofanous is the son of Andros Kalopsidiotis, brother of Fanos Kalopsidiotis, who was killed in 1995 in Larnaca by a bomb, and the grandson of Giannis Kalopsidiotis, who was also murdered in 2014.
Source: KYPE