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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Callum Parke

Nottingham Forest owner Marinakis ‘falsely accused of match-fixing’, court told

Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis is suing a rival football club owner (Mike Egerton/PA) - (PA Wire)

The owner of Nottingham Forest FC is suing a Greek football rival for more than £2.1 million in a High Court libel claim over an alleged “smear campaign” including “false” allegations of “match-fixing practices including extortion, fraud and arson”.

Shipping magnate Evangelos Marinakis, who also owns Greek Super League side Olympiacos, is suing Irini Karipidis, the owner of league rivals Aris, over allegations made on a website, social media, and mobile billboards between November 2023 and March this year.

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