Allegations against Notts Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis are ‘without substance’

The owner of Nottingham Forest FC can continue to demand £2.1m in libel damages and costs after a rival club owner accused him of match-fixing, drug trafficking and breaching international oil sanctions. Evangelos Marinakis, 57, brought a defamation claim at London’s High Court against Irini Karipidis, chair of Greek Super League Club, Aris FC. Karipidis claimed that the case should not be brought on the basis that the material published on ‘X’ and YouTube is true and that she has…