Before the Larnaca District Court for the renewal of his detention order The 34-year-old suspect in the case of the disappearance of two women, 43-year-old Khaiat Alraeesi from Syria and 33-year-old Mariia Gazibagandova from Russia, was presented by the police.
According to the Police, there is evidence that provides a reasonable basis for suspicion that the suspect is involved in the case and in the first stage concerns three offenses, abduction, kidnapping or abduction for the purpose of covert and unjust restraint and unjust concealment or restraint of a kidnapped or abducted. Offenses provided for in Chapter 154 of the Criminal Code.
In today's proceedings the court examined the parameters for renewal of the suspect's detention for another 8 days.
The court stated that an offense has been committed, that the suspect is connected to it, there is an ongoing investigation and that any dismissal may affect the police investigation.
If it is a request for renewal of the application for detention of the suspect the court examined whether the time elapsed since the first period of detention had been properly utilized and whether detention was reasonably necessary and this is evident from the remaining police investigation.
The warrant refers to an investigation into the offenses being recorded, the judge said, stressing that The facts and the evidence of the police justify the suspicion of committing crimes and there is a further fear, he said, that the outcome of the investigations will have another result, this of course the judge said, I mention it incidentally, as long as no homicide is considered, but the 3 offenses recorded in the application.
From what has been brought before me, the judge said, the suspicions are reasonably justified, while the two conditions have not been challenged either by the suspect's lawyer.
The seriousness of the case is indicative and there is an ongoing investigation said the judge.
As to whether any dismissal of the suspect might affect the police investigation, the judge said that there is an ongoing investigation and some aspects of the investigation the suspect may not influence but some may. The vast majority of the investigation has the potential to influence the suspect since much of the investigation refers to taking testimonies from his family and friends, or in investigations with issues that are related and the suspect could influence.
As far as the renewal of detention is concerned, the judge stated that he is satisfied and within the 7 days that the first decree has been issued, a large investigative work has been done and the time that has elapsed has been used to the best of the police.
The second condition is met if there is a large investigative work to be carried out for which the pre-trial detention of the suspect is reasonably necessary.
The seriousness of the crime, the judge said, is such and I do not see any nuggets or other purposes by the police or any abuse. These are serious crimes that need to be investigated, therefore the request of the police for 8 days of detention of the suspect is approved.
According to what was said in court by the police "A major investigation has been carried out in relation to the investigation of the case. This is a very serious case, which has been explained in every detail and at the same time is being investigated by the authorities and the possibility that the missing persons were killed ".
To complete the police investigation work is expected to about 50 deposits resulting from the removal of the suspect's telecommunications data, and concerning the family environment based on the new data, persons with whom the suspect had contacted both before and after the disappearance and owners of premises and technicians closed circuit monitoring.
Another person is wanted against whom An arrest warrant is pending and he is wanted, whose arrest is expected to shed light on the case.
The suspect will be re-interrogated with the help of an interpreter and his new allegations will be investigated.
A large number of closed video surveillance circuits were examined and many more are expected to be examined which concern the suspect's routes to and from the house in Kato Asbestos.
New extensive investigations are expected in collaboration with anthropologists and TEPAK in the mountainous area of Limassol to locate the bodies of the missing as there is a suspicion that they were killed.
The evaluation of the telecommunication data received by one of the providers continues, while the data from the other providers are expected to be received and analyzed.
It is expected the issuance of a re-order for the removal of telecommunication data of a telephone device which is believed to belong to the 1st missing person, whose box was found in her luggage.
The results of the bank data of the suspect and the missing ones are expected in order to ascertain the movements of the credit card and the purchases of the suspect but also of the missing ones between the dates 13/11/2021 to 25/11/2021.
The results of the scientific examinations of the other presumptions are expected, which will give further light to the case, since these are presumptions that were received from the investigations carried out on the cars belonging to the suspect and his company.
The genetic profiles of relatives of the missing are expected through Interpol, which are expected to be compared and identified with the samples taken from the basement.
To investigate the case and identify the missing there is cooperation with other services that study the morphology of the soil and whether any recent soil movements in the area.
The suspect's defense attorney, Katia Pieroudi, told the court that her client had been abused by police investigators and pressured, and was not allowed to speak to her, according to her client.