The two 28-year-olds arrested in Greece in connection with the murder of businessman Stavros Demosthenous, who was gunned down last month a few metres from his Limassol home, have been extradited to Cyprus, it was reported on Thursday.

Four other suspects accused of involvement in the murder are set to face trial before the Limassol criminal court on January 29.

The suspects include two 30-year-olds – one alleged to have purchased and sold the motorcycle used in the perpetrators’ escape, and another, a convicted prisoner, accused of having ordered the murder from within the central prison.

The remaining defendants are a 51-year-old whose DNA was found in a stolen vehicle linked to the case and a 31-year-old – identified as a Georgian – who allegedly acquired fake licence plates for the same vehicle and helped two 28-year-olds – also described as Georgians – flee Cyprus.

The embassy of Georgia in Nicosia has clarified that these individuals are not Georgian nationals but “Pontian Greeks – persons of Greek origin born in Georgia who hold exclusively Greek citizenship.”

The two 28-year-olds were arrested in Thessaloniki in late October under a European arrest warrant. Once in Cyprus, they will be added to the trial.

Stavros Demosthenous was shot dead while sitting in a car next to his 18-year-old son in the Ayios Athanasios area of Limassol on October 17.

Police investigations have so far revealed that the bullets that killed Demosthenous were probably fired from a van that was driving right in front of the car that he and his son were in.

The vehicle was later found to have been set on fire, while a motorcycle, which is believed to have been used in the killing, was found abandoned in the Limassol area.