John Macris set to be arrested in Australia after skipping court date to stay in Greece

IBRAHIM family enemy John Macris will be arrested when he arrives in Australia after he opted to stay in Greece with his girlfriend rather than front court.

SWORN Ibrahim family enemy John Macris will be arrested as soon as he sets foot in Australia after he opted to stay in Greece with his Playboy model girlfriend rather than turn up to court.

On Friday, North Sydney Local Court was told Macris, from Mosman, was living in Greece with his pregnant girlfriend Viktoria Karida.

Karida posed naked in Greek Playboy in 2004 and is a celebrity model.

The couple are often photographed in Greek tabloid magazines. They already have one child, a daughter Alexandra who is still a baby.

Macris is a convicted drug dealer and was a business partner with Kings Cross identity John Ibrahim in an Oxford St nightclub. They fell out in 2007.

Two years later he was blamed for the near-fatal shooting of John's brother Fadi Ibrahim. Fadi and Michael Ibrahim were accused of plotting to kill Macris in revenge for Fadi's shooting but were later cleared.

Macris, also a property developer, has divided his time between Greece and Sydney for the past few years.

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On Friday, North Sydney Local Court magistrate William Brydon issued the warrant for the 40-year-old's arrest after he was a no-show for sentencing for driving his black Vespa scooter along Military Rd, Neutral Bay, on January 11 while his licence was disqualified until September 2018.

When police pulled him over he showed a Greek driver's licence in the name of Ioannis Macris. He entered a guilty plea on February 26 and was assessed for a possible intensive corrections order, which includes community service.

Macris also failed to show at a hearing in March, when he gave a medical certificate. On that occasion the magistrate noted that Macris "must" turn up for sentence. He was due in court on Thursday but the magistrate gave him a day's grace.

Macris's lawyers Michael Croke and Co gave a medical certificate from a Greek doctor saying Karida "is diagnosed with abruption placentae class 2" and she must stay as motionless as possible until the end of the second trimester of her pregnancy.