Ivan Ignatievich Sawwidi

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Ivan Savvidis, 2010

Ivan Savvidis ( Greek Ιβάν Σαββίδης ; Russian Иван Игнатьевич Саввиди ; born March 27, 1959 in Santa , Niederkartlien region ) is a Greek - Russian entrepreneur and owner of the football club PAOK Thessaloniki .

Life

Ivan Savvidis was born as the son of Pontic Greeks in Santa (Georgia, Soviet Union), but never learned the Greek language. He studied in Rostov-on-Don and then worked in the Rostov tobacco factory, where he held various positions. In 1993 he became its director and later acquired the majority of the company in a management buy-out . In the following years the company developed under the name "Donskoy Tabak" into the leading tobacco company in Russia. In 2013 Forbes Magazine ranked Savvidis 30th among the richest Russians. In March 2013, he obtained Greek citizenship in addition to Russian. He and his wife Kyriaki Savvidis have two sons.

Savvidis was 2003-2011 deputy in the Russian Duma for the party United Russia the Rostov Oblast . He is a member of the Russia-Greece parliamentary contact group. In the Association of Greeks Abroad SAE - World Council of Hellenes Abroad , he is President of the Black Sea region. Savvidis is considered a friend of Vladimir Putin .

From 2002 to 2005 he was president of the football club FK Rostov , he was also involved in FK SKA Rostov .

Savvidis is deeply involved in football and is the owner and president of PAOK Thessaloniki . When his team was denied a goal due to an offside position in March 2018, he stormed onto the field with a gun on his holster and threatened the referee. The public prosecutor's office in the port city of Thessaloniki then issued an arrest warrant against him. The Greek championship was canceled and only resumed after three weeks.

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In June 2012, Savvidis acquired the majority of the Greek football club PAOK Thessaloniki , including the Makedonia Pallas luxury hotel and shares in the port of Thessaloniki . He bought 19% of the TV channel Mega and in 2017 his company "Dimera" acquired the Pigassos group newspapers: Ethnos and Imerissia.

After a court-ordered fine of 19 million euros for cigarette smuggling in 2009, the Greek tobacco factory SEKAP was economically troubled and Savvidis was able to buy it cheaply. However, he never paid the fine, which ultimately totaled 38 million euros. However, on May 1, 2017, the Greek ruling party Syriza passed a law under which old owners would have to pay penalties, including those imposed for smuggling, and the new owners would be released from their liabilities.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Giorgos Christides: PAOK Saloniki: Greece releases football club from Putin friend's tax debts Spiegel Online March 30, 2015
  2. ↑ Savvidis at number 30 on the list of the richest Russians on August 24, 2013 on www.tanea.gr (Greek), with photo
  3. ↑ Ferry Batzoglou: PAOK Saloniki: Ivan, the Terrible faz Sport August 27, 2013
  4. ^ A b Jean Mikhail: Club boss storms onto the field with a weapon - Haftbefehl welt.de, from March 12, 2018
  5. ↑ Angry President storms onto the field with a pistol sueddeutsche.de, March 12, 2018
  6. ↑ Chaos in Greece: Government stops championship March 12, 2018
  7. ↑ Three weeks after the firearms scandal, the game will be played again on March 26, 2018
  8. ↑ a b Wassilis Aswestopoulos: "It's about 38 million: Just in time for Workers' Day, Tsipras gives an oligarch" Focus from April 29, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Sawwidi, Ivan Ignatievich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Σαββίδης, Ιβάν (Greek spelling); Саввиди, Иван Игнатьевич (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greco-Russian entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa, Lower Cartlia region , Georgian SSR