Ex-Wife Charged With Soliciting Boyfriend To Murder UC Berkeley Professor In Greece: Reports

ATHENS, GREECE — The ex-wife of the University of California, Berkeley professor who was killed in Greece on the Fourth of July has been charged in his death, along with her boyfriend and three other men, one of whom is a minor, according to reports.

The five appeared Thursday in an Athens court in connection with the killing of 43-year-old Przemyslaw Jeziorski, The Washington Post reported. They have until Monday to prepare their pleas, according to CNN.

Jeziorski's ex-wife is charged with soliciting murder, her 35-year-old Greek boyfriend is charged with murder, and the other three are charged as accomplices, according to the Post.

The men have confessed to their role in the killing, CNN reported, citing a Greek police source. The three accused accomplices include a Bulgarian national and two Albanian nationals, according to CNN.

The ex-wife’s attorney said the woman maintains her innocence and had no role in the crime, the Post reported.

Jeziorski, a marketing professor at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, was in Greece to visit his children and attend a custody hearing when he was shot repeatedly at close range by a masked man in an Athens suburb in broad daylight near his ex-wife’s home, according to CNN.

His children, who are U.S. and Polish citizens, are in Greek protective custody, CNN reported.

Jezioski had sought a restraining order against his ex-wife two months before he was killed, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, which identified the woman as Nadia Michelidaki and her boyfriend as Christos Dounias.

Dounias had knocked Jezioski’s phone from his hand and pushed and kicked him in the past, and had been charged with assault, the Chronicle reported.

Michelidaki had tried to extort money from Jezioski, sending him Slack messages threatening to contact his colleagues if he did not pay her because she said he failed to give her research paper co-authorship, according to the Chronicle. She also threatened to call the police when he hosted a graduation party at a short-term rental property in Berkeley that the two co-owned, the Chronicle reported.