Sokratis Kokkalis

It has been nine years, and yet it seems like yesterday. It is that "huge" sound that the port makes on everything that decides the present and future of Olympiacos. The discussion is about Sokratis Kokkalis who with the passing of time wants to withdraw, but mainly about the new, Vangelis Marinakis, the son of Miltiadis, who was raised in Karaiskaki Stadium.

FC Olympiacos owner Evangelos Marinakis has made bombshell charges against Petros and Sokratis Kokkalis [the business tycoon who previously owned Olympiacos], as well as against businessman and AEK FC owner Dimitris Melissanidis and PAOK FC owner Ivan Savvidis.

Businessman Petros Kokkalis will be on the SYRIZA ballot in May's European Parliament election, it was announced on Tuesday.

Kokkalis, an outgoing Municipal Councillor for the Piraeus Municipality, is the son of Greek billionaire businessman Sokratis Kokkalis. 

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras appears poised for a European Parliament campaign in which he will stress efforts to combat corrupt vested interests and the "old political system", as well as the rise of the extreme right in Greece and Europe.

Both Intracom Holdings and Intralot on Thursday refuted talk about a merger of the two companies.

Sokratis Kokkalis Jr, the son of the Greek business tycoon, died at the age of 34 on Saturday while on a business trip in Cleveland in the United States.

The businessman is said to have died of a heart attack.

His death was announced on Sunday by the Kokkalis Foundation.

Athens-listed gaming systems provider and sports betting firm Intralot may consider listing on another international stock market as business in its domestic Greek market shrinks, the chairman said on Thursday.

Intralot's Greek operations were hit when it lost a contract with Greece's biggest betting firm OPAP that had been a valuable source of revenue for two decades.

A prosecutor investigating reports that entrepreneurs close to the government were gathering money to bribe MPs into backing the coalition’s candidate for crucial presidential elections early next year deemed on Friday that there was inadequate evidence to substantiate such claims and shelved the probe.

Shipowner Andreas Martinos on Wednesday rebuffed reports suggesting he was among a group of businessmen gathering cash to bribe MPs into backing the government’s presidential candidate.