Giannis Alafouzos

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Giannis Alafouzos (born July 2, 1957 in Santorini ) ( Greek Γιάννης Αλαφούζος ) is a Greek shipowner and football official .

Life

He owns the Greek daily Kathimerini and the media company Skai Group . He is also president of the Greek football club Panathinaikos Athens . Alafouzos is married and has three children. He received a suspended sentence of several years for tax evasion.

Giannis Alafouzos was born in 1957 as the son of the entrepreneur, ship owner and newspaper publisher Aristeidis Alafouzos. He graduated from the University of Oxford in economics and history . Alafouzos was a track and field athlete during his studies (specialty: 100 m sprint ). He has also received international awards as a sailor.

Shipowner

In the early 80s, after Giannis Alafouzos had finished his studies, he started working as a shipowner and expanded the family shipping company Glafki (Hellas) Maritime Company . He was the managing director of the Kyklades Maritime Corporation , which operates a fleet of tankers . He also founded the shipping company Ermis Maritime Corporation .

In 2015, Alafouzos was fined 160 million US dollars due to a natural disaster. In 1997 one of his ships lost 25,000 barrels of oil off the coast of Maracaibo in Venezuela, causing the largest natural disaster in the South American state.

In summer 2016 it became known that Giannis Alafouzos had evaded 63 million euros in taxes. With this black money he should u. a. Journalists and advertising have paid. As a result, Alafouzos's property was confiscated by the state.

In 2016, Alafouzos and SKAI TV journalist Kyriakos Thomaidis were charged with violating the Privacy Act during the 2015 Greek football scandal. However, they were later acquitted. Giannis Alafouzos has met a lot of opposition in his efforts to expose corruption in Greek football.

Giannis Alafouzos was sentenced to one year in prison in December 2016. The reason for this was the violation of personal rights by a broadcast on his TV station SKAI.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heise.de: The impoverished Greek empires
  2. ↑ Zeit.de : He owns a good piece of Greece
  3. ↑ Glafki III. In: humphreysdesign.com. Retrieved February 22, 2020 .
  4. ^ Father and son Alafouzo's plan a fleet reunion. In: tradewindsnews.com. November 23, 2000, accessed February 22, 2020 .
  5. ^ Family Shipping Businesses Alafouzos. In: books.google.gr. Retrieved February 22, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Nissos Amorgos battle ends with $ 160m payout. Retrieved August 29, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Πρόστιμο- ΜΑΜΟΥΘ 160 εκατομμυρίων δολαρίων στον Αλαφούζο για το "Νήσος Αμοργός"! (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 29, 2016 ; accessed on August 29, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.parapolitika.gr
  8. ^ Ratifican condena a capitán y propietarios del buque Nissos Amorgos por derrame petrolero ocurrido en 1997 | Correo del Orinoco. In: www.correodelorinoco.gob.ve. Retrieved August 29, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Wassilis Aswestopoulos: The Greek drama as a TV farce. In: Telepolis. Retrieved on August 29, 2016 (German).
  10. ↑ Aλαφούζος: Πλήρωνε δημοσιογράφους και διαφημιστές με «μαύρα». (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 29, 2016 ; accessed on August 29, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.parapolitika.gr
  11. ↑ Elisa Hübel: Greece's tax investigators want to freeze the assets of a shipowner - GREECE.NET. In: www.griechenland.net. Retrieved August 29, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Pegasus Interactive: Δέσμευση της περιουσίας του Γ. Αλαφούζου. (No longer available online.) In: ethnos.gr. Archived from the original on August 29, 2016 ; accessed on August 29, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ethnos.gr
  13. ^ Alafouzos to start talks with PAOK and AEK against football corruption. In: sdna.gr. March 3, 2016, accessed February 22, 2020 .
  14. ^ President of Panathinaikos FC Leaves Club. In: greece.greekreporter.com. September 22, 2017, accessed February 22, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Panathanaikos owner Alafouzo's handed year jail sentence by Piraeus court. In: Inside World Football. December 22, 2016. Retrieved December 22, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Alafouzos, Giannis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek shipowner and football official
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd July 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Santorini