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After being extradited from Turkey, where he had fled with a gunshot wound in November, a northern Greek businessman suspected of masterminding four (4) Mafia-style executions and a twin bank heist in Macedonia was charged in Kavala yesterday with attempted murder and inciting robbery. Andreas Chtenas, 45, of Kavala, was taken under heavy security measures from Thessaloniki to the eastern Macedonian town, where he was flown after his extradition from Istanbul on the basis of an international arrest warrant. According to police, Chtenas accidentally shot himself in the leg during a gunfight with officers outside two (2) banks in Eleftheroupolis,…

A Greek appeals court lowered a Kavala seaman’s life sentence for the murder and mutilation of his American fiancée to 23 years in jail on Tuesday. George Skiadopoulos was convicted three (3) years ago in the death of 31-year-old former model Julie Scully of Mansfield, NJ on January 08, 1999. Scully’s body was discovered charred and beheaded. Because of the reduced term, Skiadopoulos, 28, may be eligible for early release in as short as five (5) years. Skiadopoulos claimed his acts were motivated by “jealous rage” because Scully intended to leave him. Scully, a former legal secretary, was well-known in…

The Greek sailor, who slaughtered a New Jersey model, told cops he threw her severed head into the sea so “I can always be with her.” Prosecutors in the northern Greek city of Kavala accused George Skiadopoulos, 24, with murder in the brutal slaying of Julie Scully, 31, of Mansfield, NJ, yesterday. Skiadopoulos, who had been engaged to Scully, confessed to killing her and hacksawing off her skull when she threatened to flee the country. He told cops he buried her body in a swamp but decided to bury her skull at sea so he would always think of her…