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New arrest in connection with December murder

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Police on Thursday took one more person in custody in connection with the gangland-related murder of 53-year-old Andreas Evangelou last December.

The latest person to be arrested was a 25-year-old man, police said.

In a major operation in Larnaca last week, police had arrested six persons.

Evangelou was shot six times by a gunman – who had arrived on a moped together with another individual – while parking his car on the ground floor of the apartment building where he lived at around 8pm on December 28.

Footage from security cameras showed the two perpetrators on a moped approaching Evangelou the moment he parked his car. One of them got off and shot him from close range.

Investigators suspect the killing could be related to a drug bust that took place in 2019. Evangelou’s son Yiannis, 26, and his son-in-law Marios Georgiou, aka Mariouthkias, 34, had been arrested on suspicion of trafficking 1.5 kilos of cocaine.

Investigations by Larnaca CID are ongoing.

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