TV host says her life was threatened after Hadjicostis murder

POLICE YESTERDAY issued European and international arrest warrants for the fourth suspect wanted in connection with the murder of media mogul Andis Hadjicostis last week.
Gregoris Xenofontos, 29, has been sought by police since last Saturday in connection with the murder which took place outside Hadjicostis’ home on January 11.
It has been reported that Xenofontos left for Moldova, where his wife was born, 48 hours before his arrest warrant was issued.
According to the state broadcaster last night, the suspect told police that he went there for a holiday. Police are expected this Saturday to seek a renewal of the remand of the three suspects currently in custody in connection with the case.
Meanwhile, TV host and Sigma shareholder Elena Skordelli reportedly requested police protection for herself and her family yesterday.
CyBC reported that Skordelli’s lawyer sent letters to the police chief, Attorney-general and the Justice and Interior Ministers requesting protection after an alleged attempt to cause her injury.
The letter reportedly says that media reports following Hadjicostis’ murder connecting her to the crime have made her vulnerable to “hatred, contempt and derision”.
Her lawyer Michalakis Kyprianou is quoted in the letter requesting police to provide protection to his client, her husband, two children and journalist brother. The letter allegedly claims that unknown persons removed three nuts from the front tyre of Skordelli’s car last Friday, “evidently, to cause an accident or even her death”.
Lakatamia police station and Nicosia CID were informed of the incident, said the CyBC.
The alleged letter comes just 24 hours after the TV presenter ordered her lawyer to sue everyone “responsible for all the slanderous and malicious publicity, which has been carried out at my expense, as much in the Greek domain as in the Cypriot, via televisual or electronic formats, in printed, televised and electronic forms of media”.

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