Ex-wife of slain UC Berkley Prof. Jeziorski, gunman & accomplices arrested

Greek police has arrested five people for the murder of Polish University of Berkley marketing professor Przemyslaw Jeziorski in Agia Paraskevi suburb of northern Athens beginning of the month.

Arrested on Wednesday, July 16, are the professor’s Greek ex-wife as well as four men, one Greek – the gunman – and three foreign nationals as accomplices: one from Bulgaria and two from  Albania.

Citing investigators media reported that Jeziorski’s ex-wife, a 43-year-old economist and real estate company owner based in downtown Athens’ Kolonaki district, is believed to have ordered the killing. The gunman, is reportedly her current 35-year-old partner, who is said to have recruited the three foreign nationals to help him carry out the ambush.

Thursday afternoon, they were taken to justice with authorities pursuing serious criminal charges against the five, for intentional homicide in a calm mental state.

• The 35-year-old current partner of the victim’s ex-wife was prosecuted for illegal possession and use of a weapon.
• The professor’s ex-wife was prosecuted for instigation to homicide.
• The three accomplices were prosecuted for complicity in homicide.

All the accused were given a deadline and are expected to appear before the 2nd Juvenile Investigation Division on Monday morning, July 21, as one of the accomplices is a minor, 16 years old, media reported.

According to Mega TV, the 35-year-old partner of the ex wife has taken the whole responsibility for the murder telling police, he could not see the woman suffering because of the children and the perspective that the victim was allowed to travel with them to the US. “We wanted a normal life with the children without problems,” the man allegedly said adding “it was an opportunity to get rid of him.” He confessed that he approced the victim and gunned down Jeziorski with six bullets.

The victim was on his way to visit the children, twins aged 10, when he was gunned down close to the ex wife’s house.

Lawsuits, court decisions and the murder plot

Professor Jeziorski had reportedly filed a lawsuit against his ex-wife’s current partner a year ago, for beating and threatening.

According to preliminary investigation, the motive for the murder seems to be linked to a court decision that allowed the professor to travel abroad with his children, something his ex-wife did not accept. In addition, there was an ongoing financial dispute between them, due to a joint business activity they had developed in the past in the US.

Accomplices turn against the ex-wife

Jeziorski ‘s ex-wife denies the charges, however the other defendants are said to have confessed and described her role in detail. she reportedly claimed on Thursday that she was stunned her current partner confessed to the assassination.

They present her as the financier and orchestrator of the plan. A photo of the victim on her way home was recovered from her cell phone, which she appears to have sent to the perpetrator shortly before the ambush.

The route to the murder and the ambush in Agia Paraskevi

Initially, the perpetrators drove to Haidari suburb of western Athens in a rented Porsche, where the professor was with his children and ex-wife at a child psychologist. The 35-year-old did not have time to attack and so decided to set up a new ambush at noon, on Irini Street in Agia Paraskevi, where the victim would pick up his children.

The Albanian accomplices left him at the scene and continued to circle the area. After the murder, the perpetrator walked to the Square, threw the Tokarev-type weapon and his jacket in a trash can and then took a bus to the center. From there he headed to Haidari and then by taxi to Nafplio, in north-eastern Peloponnese to build his alibi.

Building the alibi and blackmail after the murder

To strengthen his alibi, the 35-year-old left his Bulgarian accomplice in Nafplio his mobile phone and car keys, so that it would appear that he was away from Athens at the time of the murder and also paid him 2,000 euros.

However, when his accomplices realized that this was not a simple attack but a cold-blooded murder, they began to blackmail him, asking him for 40,000 to 50,000 euros so that they would not turn him in. They claim that the perpetrator agreed to pay them, but did not have time.

The perpetrator also implicated the victim’s minor son

Revealing is the information that shortly before the murder, the 35-year-old contacted the victim’s minor son using the connection of one of his accomplices, in order to obtain information about his father’s movements. The minor, who was at home with his mother, informed him without his knowledge of his father’s arrival, relying on information conveyed to him by the victim’s ex-wife.