Evangelos Marinakis faces drug trafficking charges and Greek Super League strife has enveloped his other club,OlympiakosIn 2012, an ageing, or nondescript tanker was renamed Noor 1 and promptly became a so-called ghost ship,its routes no longer logged. After it was intercepted off the Greek coast in 2014 it was claimed that more than two tonnes of heroin and 18 tonnes of illegal fuel had been smuggled onit.
There has long been speculation linking Evangelos Marinakis – one of Greece’s most powerful men, and owner of Olympiakos and Nottingham Forest – to that ship and on Friday he was charged with drug trafficking and financing an illegal operation in connection with Noor 1.
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Source: guardian.co.uk