The unsolved triple crime of Longos in 2005, which had shocked the nation, has not been forgotten by the country's law enforcement authorities. With the assistance of the NIS, new evidence is being sought to unravel the tangle of the triple murder in Aigio.
Information from the newspaper "Peloponnisos" says that the file of the triple murder remains open, with the NIS seeking new evidence for the complex case. Many even argue that the three murders - of 66-year-old Greek-Egyptian businessman Michalis Zoumbatlis, his son Nikos Zoumbatlis - Ramzi and his mother Calliope - Fanis Zoumbatlis - have international dimensions and that it is a contract of death.
At that time, all the police services involved in Aigio, Patras and Athens had thoroughly examined every possible version to reach the killer. But he had not left the slightest trace and was not identified, nor of course the instigator of the "well-paid" contract of death.
In the course of 17 years until today the file of the triple murder was retrieved three times from the file of the Aigio Prosecutor's Office, but all three times it was put back in the file. On file, but open... In fact, one of the three times it was opened with newer evidence introduced by Angeliki Nikolouli's TV show "light in the tunnel".
Triple crime with an international dimension
The prosecution services, as the investigations progressed, had come to the conclusion that the "contract of death" did not concern some personal differences or, in any case, was not a crime with only a "domestic" dimension.
And indeed today, what has emerged, according to verified information from "P", is that the NSS and secret services of Middle Eastern countries have the file in front of them, and are working on new evidence, in the hope that they will be able to provoke a new, fourth round of prosecutorial investigation of the complex case.
When the triple murder in Loggo took place, the first person to enter the house of the Zoumbatli family was the then commander of the A/T K. Achaia, Kostas Kyriakopoulos, who has retired from the Corps with the rank of Lt. His account of the first moments after the executions is significant. It happened that day that I was in Loggo in the house of a friendly family, which was close to the cottage of the Zumbatli family. I was the first to enter the house and was confronted with a gruesome sight. Mich. Zumbatlis had not expired. He asked me for a glass of water and I gave it to him. In a breathless voice he managed to tell me that the murderer was tall, agile, wearing black clothes and a hood. I got the feeling that he suspected who were the proxies of the massacre, but he did not tell me anything else, because he tilted his head and expired..."
After 17 years, Kostas Kyriakopoulos is convinced that the murder of three members of the Zoumpatlis family has "international" implications:
"I remember that the perpetrator left no traces at the scene of the crime. He was a super professional hitman. Nor was the weapon, of course, found. A 'contract of death' was executed with surgical precision, referring to stories of espionage or settling accounts at a high level..."
Lieutenant General εα's words "tie in" with 66-year-old Mih. Zoubatli in countries of the Middle East, who had great connections, as he was also president of the Greek-Egyptian Council.[BP]He had a strong relationship with the late Patriarch Peter of Alexandria, who 13 months before the murder of Longos, had been the victim of a tragic accident caused by the crash of a helicopter "Sinuk" that was carrying him and his 8-member entourage to Mount Athos!
The unresolved "equation" and the secret services
In the 1990s, Zoubatlis had the unreserved help of the Patriarch, who exerted influence on the Christian population of the region. When an embargo was imposed on Saddam Hussein's Iranian regime, Zubatlis took advantage and bought gold, diamonds and other gems from Hussein's government.
The late Patriarch Peter practically loved the Arab world and especially the suffering Christians of Iraq and devised various ways to prevent starvation, as the UN "food for oil" program was not enough to feed the entire population of Iraq.
The prosecuting authorities count very strongly in the unsolved "equation" the fact that one year apart, the Patriarch was killed (?) and Mich. Zumbatlis, as well as two members of his family, were murdered.
"A common plan to eliminate them is most likely, if we also take into account that so far it seems "infallible" the way they lost their lives," a high-ranking source of the NIS tells "PtK".
Source: pelop.gr
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