Yiorgos Vardinogiannis

Yiorgos Vardinogiannis is a Greek shipowner and businessman, former owner and president of the Panathinaikos football club.

Career

Yiorgos Vardinoyannis was the captain of the merchant ship "Ioanna V" which, in 1966, broke the UN-imposed and British-enforced embargo on the regime of Rhodesia and brought in oil to the Portuguese Mozambique port of Beira, which was connected with landlocked Rhodesia by a pipeline. [ [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,899145,00.html?promoid=googlep Hot cargoes, Time magazine] ]

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