Career
Hadjicostis is credited with creating Sigma television, a popular commercial television station in Cyprus, serving as the station"s Chief Executive Officer. He also served as the Chief Executive Officer of the private, family-owned Dias Media Group, which controls Cypriot television stations, radio and newspapers. Hadjicostis modernized and reformed Dias during his tenure. Andis Hadjicostis was shot and killed with a shotgun on January 11, 2010, while leaving his home in the Engomi neighborhood of Nicosia.
He was 41 years old at the time of his murder.
The Simerini, a Dias owned newspaper, printed the front page editorial headline, "Cowardly murder – they killed Andy Hadjicostis in cold blood." Sigma television switched to classical music programming on news of Hadjicostis" murder. Cypriot police allege that Hadjicostis was murdered by a former employee, Elena Skordelli, a presenter on one of the victim"s television stations.
Skordelli had recently been fired.
