Evangelos Marinakis

Greek businessman Evangelos Marinakis, who owns English Premier League soccer club Nottingham Forest, has applied to take discovery in the United States for use in a defamation lawsuit in London in which he has accused the chair of another soccer club - Irini Karipidis - and others of orchestrating a "smear campaign" against him.

Application by Evangelos Marinakis, a citizen of Greece described as "a successful businessman who is particularly well-known since 2017 for his involvement in and ownership of Nottingham Forest Football Club", to take discovery from Citibank, N.A., The Bank of New York Mellon, Bank of America, N.A., Barclays Bank PLC, BNP Paribas USA, Commerzbank AG, New York Branch, Deutsche Bank Trust Co. Americas, HSBC Bank USA, N.A., JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Société Générale, New York Branch, Standard Chartered Bank USA, UBS AG, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., and The Clearing House Payments Company L.L.C. for use in legal proceedings in England against Irini Karipidis, of Greece; Amani Swiss (Cyprus) Limited, of Cyprus; Ari Harow, of Israel, and Sheyaan Consulting Limited, of Israel, alleging a "smear campaign", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.