In a high-profile legal dispute Evangelos Marinakis‚ who owns both Nottingham Forest and Olympiakos is taking Irini Karipidis (chair of Aris Thessaloniki) to Londons High Court over what he calls a smear-campaign
The case centers around a web-site and eye-catching mobile billboards that showed up near Forestʼs stadium last year; making claims about match-fixing drug-smuggling and oil-trading rules breaking. Marinakis strongly denies these accusations
A heated soccer match from last season sits at the heart of this dispute: when Olympiakos faced Aris in a game that ended 2-2. Court papers show Karipidis claims Marinakis made life-threatening statements about her brother Theodoros who allegedly refused to fix the match outcome
The legal proceedings which started in may-2024 now face a challenge as Karipidis tries to stop the case from moving forward outside England; while her team says they have truth on their side. Another person Ari Harow (ex-aide to Israeli PM) got pulled into this mess for supposedly helping with payment arrangements