DIMITRIS MELISSANIDIS

A new video that has emerged shows the events, minute-by-minute, on Monday evening, which led to the death of 29-year-old Michalis Katsouris.

AEK FC, its owner threaten journalists, while team’s fans mourn a victim of violence

Lefteris Charalampopoulos

Takis Baltakos and Iakovos Filippousis, along with the other “appointed” ΕPO employees are destroying all that remains standing in football, defiantly ignoring even the Greek state’s laws!

A Luxemburg-filed lawsuit refers to spoliation of evidence

Dimitris Melissanidis - Aegean Marine Petroleum – Exposing the machinations that have taken place to mask poor management practices in Aegean

Explosive allegations, revealing e-mails, allegations of fraudulent transactions and payments to AEK FC

Dimitris Melissanidis’ career both in his business dealings and in Greek football - where he played a leading role in some of its darkest moments  - is common knowledge.

Greek football is drowning helpless in the dismal world of those truly running the show.

Obviously governments should meet up with businessmen and businesswomen but this must be done openly and publicly in order to establish cooperation with the various sectors of the economy.

Even if one were to accept that in the past Mr. Melissanidis gave the impression that governments are in one way or another vulnerable to various demands, there is no reason for that status quo to continue.

How can such things be going on for a quarter-century? That is a question for the Greek judiciary and for the state, which has failed to create a real “protective framework” for football.

Serious issues regarding the attitude of the police authorities and the responsibilities of the relevant authorities raise the events that took place in the AEK-PAOK match

' I did not and do not have ties with the public sector. I did not intertwine my interests with a party and politicians in order to hugely enlarge my business. My business is abroad. I serve Greece in global shipping,' Marinakis said of Sokratis Kokkalis.

Chairman of the Board Donald Moore stated, 'A page has finally and definitively turned as regards previous problems of the company and the resulting challenges, with an eye to the important challenges ahead.'

The company's founder is accused of funnelling up to $300m from the Aegean Marine Petroleum Network’s

The Greek corporate scandal that was brought to light by the American Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in Piraeus’ Akti Miaouli – Dimitris Melissanidis’ “leap” from Piraeus to the Emirate of Fujairah in the Arabian Peninsula – produced direct charges of embezzlement of $300mn by the Ernst and Young auditing committee. US Ambassador to Athens Geoffrey Pyatt cooperated with the investigation - Meanwhile, Spyros Fokas, the General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Aegean, who has been removed but faces heavy charges, has stayed on as First Vice-President of OPAP, Greece’s leading gaming company

Board investigation found billionaire founder used false transactions, receipts and documents to conceal alleged $300 million fraud

Damning evidence in the Audit Committee’s report on the scandal, new Board will seek to retrieve embezzled  funds, as US authorities examine the case

The clouds are thickening around Aegean Marine Petroleum Network with a plethora of lawsuits against the practices of its management by Dimitris Melissanidis, who once again has resorted to threats against journalists

The new Board has found an inflated balance sheet and the company may be called upon to write of 200mn dollars from its books. Waterloo for its stocks, at 1 dollar per share

The company, which was founded by Dimitris Melissanidis, and whose stocks are traded on the New York Stock Exchange, is at the centre of attention of regulatory authorities

What was resoundingly proven is that the battle was waged over who will control EPO, refereeing, and the Court of Arbitration, and not over “clean” football.