The leader of Greece's Golden Dawn was among more than a dozen members of the neo-Nazi party arrested by Greek police in early raids on Saturday on charges of founding a criminal organisation. Another member of the far-right party has been charged as an accomplice in the killing this month of anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas by a Golden Dawn sympathiser, Reuters reported, citing a police official. Party leader Nikolaos Michaloliakos and spokesman Ilias Kasidiaris, along with four lawmakers and several other members of the far-right party, were among those arrested on Saturday. Golden Dawn is Greece's third most popular party in opinion polls after the conservative New Democracy party and centre-left Pasok. The far-right party, which has 18 MPs in parliament, has denied any links to the killing. "Shame on them, the people will lift Golden Dawn higher," Ilias Panagiotaros, a Golden Dawn lawmaker, told reporters before his arrest. Christos Pappas, one of the lawmakers still at large, told a local radio station that the arrests were illegal and accused the government of being a criminal organisation destroying Greece in co-operation with the so-called Troika of the European Commission, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund. Mr Michaloliakos recently threatened to pull Golden Dawn's MPs from parliament, a move that would trigger by-elections and possibly threaten the New Democracy-Pasok, coalition. Golden Dawn, which scored as high as 15 per cent in opinion polls before the killing of Fyssas, has since seen its support suffer, with the conservative New Democracy party gaining ground. Greek MPs do not lose their political rights or seats until there is a final court ruling against them. Fotis Kouvelis, the leader of the moderate Democratic Left party that dropped out of the government in the summer, said early elections could not be ruled out, adding arrests alone would not resolve the problem of Golden Dawn's ideology.