A total of seven police officers are under investigation for connection with a gang made up of Russian-speaking Greeks of Georgian origin, whose members are accused of four homicides of members of the so-called “Greek Mafia.”
The Greek Police’s Internal Affairs Division believes three of the police officers are full members of the Georgian gang, three have aided and abetted the criminals, and the seventh, the highest ranking of all who, until recently, commanded an especially sensitive post in northern Greece, “needs to be further investigated.”
The division had already submitted a report in May 2025; according to lawyers of some of the police officers, most are set to face an examining magistrate on Wednesday.
The three officers accused as accessories informed the gang, through encrypted apps, of investigations targeting them.
The investigation of the gang began when Ioannis Livasov, like them originating from the former Soviet Union and involved in selling contraband cigarettes, was murdered in February 2019. Police in the northern city of Thessaloniki had said then that the murder looked like a contract killing.
