Cyprus: Suspect in media baron's killing arrested

A Cypriot police spokesman says a key suspect in the alleged contract killing of the island's only media baron has been arrested in Moldova.

Michalis Katsounotos said on Tuesday that extradition proceedings have begun for 29-year-old fugitive Gregoris Xenofontos.

Investigators believe that Xenofontos was the triggerman in the Jan. 11 fatal shooting of 41-year-old Andy Hadjicostis outside his Nicosia home.

Xenofontos flew to Moldova 3 days after the killing.

Television host Elena Skordelli, her brother Anastasios Krasopoullis and another man are currently being tried on premeditated murder charges. They have pleaded not guilty to plotting and ordering the killing, allegedly prompted by the host's dismissal from a Hadjicostis-owned TV station.