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Marinakis charged with heroin trafficking

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Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis has been charged with trafficking heroin in his native Greece.

The 50-year-old, who bought Forest 10 months ago in a £50m takeover, has been accused of smuggling 2.1 tonnes of heroin into Greece in 2014.

The charges relate to a three-year investigation into the Noor 1 tanker, which was intercepted by authorities in the port of Piraeus.

Marinakis, who made his fortune as a shipping magnate, also owns Greek Super League giants Olympiacos.

This evening Greek public prosecutor Eirini Tziva announced “very serious charges” relating to the alleged heroin trafficking and financing an illegal operation.

According to The Guardian, a judicial review into Noor 1 had followed the money and found suspicious bank transfers, which court sources claimed were linked to the impounded vessel and suspected of financing it.

Forest are currently sitting in 16th place in the Championship table. Marinakis owns 80 per cent of the club following his takeover in May 2017.
 
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/mar/23/nottingham-forest-owner-evangelos-marinakis-charged-drug-trafficking

The Nottingham Forest owner, Evangelos Marinakis, has been charged with drug trafficking in a heroin smuggling case that has shocked Greece.

Late on Friday the Greek public prosecutor, Eirini Tziva, accused the shipowner businessman of what were described as “very serious charges” following a three-year investigation into the Noor 1, a tanker intercepted in the port of Piraeus carrying 2.1 tonnes of heroin in 2014.

Marinakis, 50, was also charged with financing an illegal operation. Three of his close associates were named with him on the charge sheet.

The judicial inquiry had followed the money, focusing on bank transfers that had raised suspicion. Court sources were quoted as saying that several money transfers had been linked to the impounded vessel and probably used to finance it.

Marinakis, who owns the Greek champions Olympiakos, was not available for comment. The football club’s website did not mention the charges, widely derided as a set-up by fans.

This is not the businessman’s first brush with the law. In 2015 he was acquitted of complicity in a match-fixing network whose web extended across seven countries. In that case charges were brought after Uefa detected a pattern of irregular betting in the countries. The magnate, who bought Nottingham Forest 10 months ago in a £50m takeover, attributed those charges to “jealous” critics bent on blighting his Greek team’s winning streak. “Of course I cannot stop our opponents talking or bad-mouthing,” he said.
 
"it's just rivals who are jealous of his Olympiacos success doing a smear campaign. It happens all the time in Greece"
 
Looks like he didnt give big enough cut to the government.

From that Greek fella on LTLF...

GreeksBearingGifts

Some gruesome details to give you an idea of the affair. The new inquiry officially begun based on a deposition of the convicted transporter of the drug load, given on January 25, 2017. His deposition was the result of a visit by the prosecutor, orchestrated by the vice-president of the government (these are not allegations, they have both admitted that this was the case), on January 17. On the very same night, eight days before the deposition, a tv show announced the new inquiry and the content of the deposition -which was only given eight days later...

Months later, the same convict who implicated EM gave an interview where he claimed that his deposition was the product of pressure and blackmail by an officer of the port authorities, who allegedly ordered him, implying that the orders came from high up, to implicate Marinakis on the drug affair. The convict filed charges against the officer, and the prosecutor, and the whole affair was investigated by the Parliament, which conveniently decided not to press charges on the VP for meddling with justice.



 
Plenty of opportunity for us to promulgate our collective disdain over what has happened, but what are we going to do about it ? We can express our moral outrage , as to what has happened but who outside of this clique actually reads this stuff ? I can understand that no one on this site would condone this behaviour, but where are we going with this? It seems that the only owners we can attract are either duplicitous (We’ll only invest from a position of strength, but not when we are 2nd in the league) to the incompetent to the corrupt. It is all so depressing.
 
forestfire_59 - 24/3/2018 13:40

Plenty of opportunity for us to promulgate our collective disdain over what has happened, but what are we going to do about it ? We can express our moral outrage , as to what has happened but who outside of this clique actually reads this stuff ? I can understand that no one on this site would condone this behaviour, but where are we going with this? It seems that the only owners we can attract are either duplicitous (We’ll only invest from a position of strength, but not when we are 2nd in the league) to the incompetent to the corrupt. It is all so depressing.
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National papers have picked it up.

 
Not saying he is guilty or not , but there is nothing lower than a heroin dealer for me.
 
IF it is proven and he was to go down for this what would be the implications on Forest?
 
He has enough good lawyers...to sort this out...or someone else will get the blame ir nit enough evidence will be found...
 
I note the Guardian and the BBC both started out by reporting the story as 'Marinakis accused of smuggling heroin' but now emphasise that he strongly denies any involvement.

Maybe they've checked further and seen that the allegations lack credibility.
 
fumanchew - 25/3/2018 11:10

Surely the guy with 20% ownership will ‘buy’ the rest of the club?
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Might be wrong, but wasn’t Marinakis just fronting a consortium? On that basis, is it not possible that even if convicted it wouldn’t necessarily affect forest? Not the sort of owner, that would be our first choice, but let’s hope this is just paper talk like all the stuff about bakeries and so on.
 
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