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Anonymous — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:44:00 +0000

Further to your story regarding Andreas Antoniades, here is some information that may be of use to you.
This mans reputation is well known amongst Greek Cypriots in the UK as well as his native Cyprus. He is unable to visit his birthplace for fear of being killed by members of the families he betrayed. Having said this he still has many ‘friends’ in Cyprus who are willing to help him in anyway they can. In 1998 there was a scandal involving a certain Bishop Chrysanthos (now deceased) from Limassol and a scam in the Phillipines. See http://www.hri.org/news/cyprus/cmpress/1998/98-10-16.cmpress.html
The Bishop, Antoniades and his nephew Stavros Stavrou, aka Stav, had all traveled there with the aim of selling some Japanese WW2 currency or bonds (some reports suggest diamonds), in a million dollar deal that was reported on southern Cyprus TV. Though the scam failed the Bishop returned to Cyprus and the then investigating reporter Mr Dimitris Mamas and a local MP Mr Christos Pourgourides tried to discover what the Bishop was actually doing in the Phillipines and who he was with. The Bishop was dealt with by the church rather than the police. Antoniades at the time was even interviewed via telephone (he called the channel) on southern Cyp TV regarding this incident. No charges were brought against anyone at the time and the case is now dormant if not dropped.
Antoniades has fathered many children from different wives and mistresses, one of his sons Evris is a career criminal and a well known money lender in north London. Another son (possibly Evris) was shot and wounded by police in a botched robbery on a post office in Crouch End north London. Antoniades also has a sone from his Afghan born wife who is /was involved with a financial institution in the city of london. His Afghan wife is probably the link he had in dealing with the Afghans for the CIA in the recent reports of missile deals. She is apparently an Afghani princess. Antoniades has various property interests in the Brighton area though these may be registered in his wifes or other persons names. Antoniades’ most likely successor will be the son of his late sister Ariadne, he is Stavros Stavrou in his early 50′s and a lifelong scammer and drug dealer. He has lived in the UK, Italy, south Africa, Dubai and more recently the south part of Cyprus. He travels often to Dubai from Cyprus and was involved in various VAT frauds in the UK involving drinks in the 90′s though he was never convicted he was interviewed by Customs and Excise. It is believed he informed on his associates to avoid prosecution himself though intervention by his uncle and others cannot be ruled out. Stavrou was also involved in the recent mobile phone ‘Carousel’ fraud and is a registered director of companies with multi million pound turnovers regarding this type of fraud. He is registered as living at ‘Tarnwood’ Barnet Lane Arkely Herts. He has differing birth-dates on the register at companies house. He tries to emulate his uncle by often growing a beard in the same style; they bear a resemblance when he has such a beard. He has also fathered at least 4 children by 4 different women. It is believed his current wife is a former Russian cabaret dancer. Stavrou is involved in car dealing in Limassol Cyp as a front for his other activities, he also resides in this town when in Cyp. Stavrou has never been convicted of any crime though he is known to various authorities in many countries; he uses the same system as his uncle, bribery and informing. It is well known that he bribes official in government and members of the police forces of GB, South Africa and Cyp. Stavrou also deals in drugs once exporting charcoal from Namibia and SA to the UK. The 2 kilo bags contained a kilo of charcoal and a kilo of drugs, the charcoal would conceal the smell from the dogs should they sniff the container. Care was taken to load only the middle of the container with the bags containing the drugs.

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