This article below is an exact reproduction of an article published on the 29/3/98 in the "News of the World" One of Englands leading Sunday newspapers.All references to our team refer to a team at the "News of the World", where "Cypriot "is mentioned this refers to Greek Cypriot and Cyprus refers to the South of Cyprus the Greek controlled area.

The news of the World's team's eight month investigation begins here in the heart of the Midlands. Our investigators arrange a contact meeting with a Greek-Cypriot drug dealer.

The pusher boasts he has contacts in London who can supply weapons. He tells our men they could buy anything from guns to rockets and tanks. And there is a chilling warning for our team. "Be careful, they have heavy connections with the Russian Mafia,"

The pusher we met in Birmingham introduces our investigator to Bayswater-based Cypriot businessman Christos leromymides. At a cloak and dagger meeting in a suite in the Marriott Hotel, Swiss Cottage, Christos vows: "We can get what ever you want," Later, there is a meeting at the Ambassador Hotel near Euston Station to discuss money. Christos shows our man a brochure with details about the Skorpion 9mm sub·machinegun. Our man orders arms at a cost of £lOmillion, The meeting is recorded on video.

Our team are flown to Athens, In a luxurious apartment in the shadow of the famous Acropolis , a sober-suited local business man shows our man an attaché case full of automatic and semi-automatic pistols. The weapons ate expertly stripped down and placed on a glass top table. A deal is struck and our investigators are taken to meet former Greek Air force Colonel Constantine Mouzoukis the man who will transport the arms to England. He wants £56,000 for his trouble.

OVER lunch in Nicosia's Hilton Hotel, our investigators meet a seemingly respectable diplomat named George Economides. But he is the man who will provide the vital End User certificate the official document which declares that arms have been ordered by a responsible government so they can be released from the weapons factory. Economides boasts "I've done this before very successfully, but it's likely to cost you about £215,000 in cash to compensate for risks."

This above article is an exact reproduction of an article published on the 29/3/98 in the "News of the World" One of Englands leading Sunday newspapers.All references to our team refer to a team at the "News of the World", where "Cypriot "is mentioned this refers to Greek Cypriot and Cyprus refers to the South of Cyprus the Greek controlled area.