Overview
- A Greek court on Monday, June 22, refused Australia’s request to extradite 55-year-old James Dalamangas over the 1999 stabbing death of George Giannopoulos.
- Greek authorities arrested Dalamangas on June 7 in the Peloponnese town of Aigio after investigators say he lived in Greece under a false identity.
- A Greek judge cited the country’s statute of limitations for foreign crimes, reported as a 25-year limit, which creates a legal bar to his extradition rather than a finding on guilt or innocence.
- Dalamangas was separately sentenced in Greece to two years and nine months for illegal weapons possession and false testimony, charges not connected to the 1999 killing.
- NSW Police, the AFP and federal agencies say they will pursue all available legal and diplomatic avenues while the Giannopoulos family has written to senior ministers urging further action and expressing devastation.