Miller said that following his arrest, Pavlou confessed to owning the drugs. Police said yesterday two people found in the apartment during the raid were released after no incriminating evidence was found against them. He said that preliminary investigations showed she had arrived at Tymbou airport in the occupied areas and had been staying at a pension in Kyrenia. She told police the tablets protected the artistes from sexually transmitted diseases. Aristidou said that she was arrested on Friday after being spotted in Frenaros in the Famagusta district carrying 17 boxes of the pills.
Police say the tablets originated in Russia.
The revelation followed a confession by one of the gang's alleged members, currently being held in Nicosia Central Prisons, and the subsequent five-day remand of one of the implicated parties' mothers, whom police also believe to be involved. The raiders had at first made their escape on a motorbike which was later fond locked in the basement of a Larnaca apartment building. Tantis said that he had been waiting for them outside the apartment building and then went to his house to hide the ,14,255 taken from bank. Tantis told police that he later saw the woman counting the money and that part of it was used to buy furniture for the Yiannides home in Greece and a car for the son. Police had considered the two most recent cases to be closed in mid-January after Tantis' father was found to have deposited ,22,000 in a bank account shortly afterwards.