The ex-wife of a gunned down UC Berkeley professor has been charged with arranging his cold-blooded murder in Athens earlier this month by persuading her current partner to commit the crime.

The victim, 43-year-old academic Przemyslaw Jeziorski, a native of Poland, was shot five times in broad daylight on July 4 in northeast Athens’ leafy Aghia Paraskevi district as he was walking to his ex-wife’s home to see his two children, twins.

Another three men, two Albanian nationals and a Bulgarian man, have also been arrested in relation to the case and charged with complicity.

Greek Police (EL.AS) on Wednesday afternoon provided the first information about the arrests and initial details over the gangland-style slaying, saying the three foreign nationals transported the alleged shooter, a local man and the ex-wife’s companion, to the scene and provided him with a Tokarev model automatic handgun used as the murder weapon.

Jeziorski was declared dead at the scene by first responders after sustaining five gunshot wounds.

Authorities added that the UC Berkeley professor also had major economic differences with his ex-wife, a Greek national, along with an acrimonious custody battle.

Reports aired last week by Athens-based Mega Channel had the victim’s ex-wife immediately contacting police when she learned he had been shot dead, as well as offering her cellphone for inspection while saying she had “nothing to hide”. She also admitted at the time that there was a legal battle over custody ongoing, while claiming that her now dead ex-husband was “abusive”, among other claims.

Hours before the killing both the victim and his ex-wife had visited a child psychologist, Mega Channel had also revealed.