Cyprus's Sigma TV anchorwoman, 42-year old Elena Skordelli, looks like any other anchorwoman - blond, beautiful and nice voice whose face was on endless schedule of soaps, game shows, and cosy sofa chat.

But no one knew that inside her blonde head, she was conniving to kill her boss, 41-year old Andis Hadjicostis, popular and well-respected broadcasting mogul and head of private media company, Dias.

Mr Hadjicostis had won praise for expanding the Dias Group media business, which includes four radio stations, a daily newspaper and the Cypriot franchises of OK and Time Out magazines.

  Hadjicostis who was gunned down at short range outside his villa in Nicosia's diplomatic quarter on the evening of January 11th.

First the shooting was linked to divided island's long-unresolved political dispute but was soon moved to Elena after an accomplice, Theophanis Hadjigeorgiou, was arrested and agreed to give state's evidence. He told the police about Elena and her brother's involvement in the murder. CCTV footage from nearby cameras seem to have given up the true

Mr Hadjigeorgiou told police that the murder had been planned by his accomplice, Andreas Gregoriou, a butcher who supplied meat to a restaurant run by the Skordelli family in the village of Pera, outside Nicosia.Source: www.smh.com.au

Hadjicostis had earlier fired Elena Skordelli from her job. And it seems that she hired the hitman to kill him. It seems to have been motivated by a desire for revenge for her sacking and an urge to become a media mogul by seizing control of Dias. She and her brother, Tassos Krasopoulos,  already has acquired 20 per cent stake and she intended to buy out other shareholders after Mr Hadjicostis's death.

Ms Skordelli is alleged to have arranged the revenge killing of Andis Hadjicostis, 43, a popular and well-respected broadcasting mogul who was gunned down outside his villa in Nicosia's diplomatic quarter on the evening of January 11th.

The head of Dias Group, the largest media company in Cyprus, his otherwise inexplicable execution was initially thought to have been linked to the divided island's long-unresolved political dispute. Shell casings believed to have from Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus were found at the scene of the crime, prompting speculation that it was connected to his firm's opposition to UN-backed plans to reunite the island.

Now, however, detectives have charged both Ms Skordelli, her brother Tassos Krasopoulos, and an alleged hitman with the killing, after a fourth accomplice, Theophanis Hadjigeorgiou, was arrested and agreed to give state's evidence.

They believe that Ms Skordelli was motivated by both revenge for her sacking and a desire to become a media mogul herself by siezing control of Dias. Having already acquired a 20 per cent stake jointly with her brother, she attempted to buy out other Dias shareholders after Mr Hadjicostis's death.

"Ms Skordelli was motivated by her hostility against the victim because he terminated her employment at Sigma television," state prosecutor, Savvas Matsa, told The Sunday Telegraph last week.

"It was a revenge killing, motivated by her dismissal and interconnected with her desire to buy more shares in the company.

"If found guilty of murder there can be only one sentence – life imprisonment."

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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