So before Forest came up I hadn't
really ever heard of Marinakis, and even so I was always under the impression that he was just another business man like Jordan, Levy or more appropriately Stelios of the EasyJet empire (and the failed EasyEverything project).
However over these past few days the man's background has really piqued my interest. His continuous working of loop holes, evading contraventions, constant "good luck" - he has to have some prior experience, right?
"Right" would be putting it mildly.
Marinakis is big bad news, after some reading it seems he is essentially one of the biggest gangsters in Europe and controls the majority of the heroin supply coming into Europe. He made most of his money through illegal shipping and paying off officials.
He has a long history of bribery, match fixing and fraud convictions though always manages to get off on technicalities or because witnesses miraculously disappear.
And as somebody else pointed out on here, his nephew in law ( ? ) is on the board at UEFA

Couldn't make it up.