Gangster John Macris buried in Sydney as wife Viktoria Karida ‘lives in fear’

Gangster John Macris has been buried in a secret ceremony in Sydney following his brutal execution in Athens, Greece which was captured on CCTV. His wife Viktoria Karida is rumoured to have told friends she now fears for her life and wants to move back to Australia.

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Gangster John Macris has been buried in a secret ceremony in Sydney following his brutal execution in Athens, Greece which was captured on CCTV.

It is understood Macris’ widow, reality-TV star and former Playboy playmate, Viktoria Karida, told friends she now fears for her life and wants to move to Australia following her young partner’s murder.

Macris was laid to rest on Saturday at Rookwood Cemetery in Sydney’s west next to his sister Vicki who died of leukaemia more than 30 years ago, The Australian reported.

Last week, CCTV footage released by Athens newspaper Kathimerini shows a man dressed in grey and black, running towards a black car while firing three shots into the passenger’s side of the vehicle in a seaside suburb in the Greek capital city on October 31.

Widow Viktoria Karida returns from her husband John Macris with her two children. Picture: Matrix

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Macris had just entered the car and was on his way out. After being hit, he got out and tried to escape. The Greek newspaper reported the assailant allegedly followed him and from a distance of half a metre, continued to shoot him.

Police say Mr Macris was shot four times with a 9mm handgun and died at the scene.

Witnesses have said one of the hitmen pulled the trigger on a 9mm pistol while shouting in Greek, “I’m going to finish him off.”

Authorities are looking at the businessman’s activities in Greece to try to find a motive for the killing and to identify the assassin.

Five days ago, family and friends of Macris, 46, mourned his death at a church service. Ms Karida was sobbing as she was escorted up the church steps at the time.

The funeral of John Macris in Greece last week. Picture: Angelo Christofilopoulos

For the past seven years, the Greek-Australian has lived in exile in Athens socialising with city’s oligarchs, shipowners, singers and media stars and was often seen gracing the pages of the glossy Greek tabloid mags with Ms Karida, with whom he shares a young daughter, Alexandra, and son Achilles.

The brazen yet shrewd gangster was unheeding in his drug dealings and once confessed in court to recklessly using his father, then 75, as a drug mule to transport $13 million or 50 kilograms of methamphetamine oil — enough to make $12.5 million worth of the drug ice — in the back of a Ford Falcon.

The crime scene after Sydney gangster John Macris was gunned down in the chest. Picture: Proto Thema

Macris had previously had a feud with John Ibrahim over a nightclub business partnership. Two of Ibrahim’s brothers, Fadi and Michael, were charged with conspiring to murder Mac­ris in 2009.

Police alleged the brothers mistakenly believed ­Macris was behind the near-fatal shooting of Fadi in 2009 for which has ever been charged.

A jury in 2013 acquitted Michael and another man Rodney Atkinson of conspiracy to murder. Prosecutors later dropped the same charge against Fadi. It is not suggested John Ibrahim or his family had any connection with Macris’s death.

John Macris has lived in exile in Athens socialising with city’s oligarchs, shipowners, singers and media stars and was often seen gracing the pages of the glossy Greek tabloid mags.

Viktoria Karida and John Macris at their 2016 wedding on the Greek island of Mykonos.

Sydney criminal lawyer Brett Galloway, who represented Macris, described him as a small-time drug dealer with aspirations to become a big-time gangster.

“He was a nondescript sort of dude who wanted to be a gangster,” Mr Galloway said.