Olympiacos FC board members to stand trial over Lyngeridis case

A judicial council on Thursday unanimously ordered that the president of the Piraeus-based Olympiacos soccer club, Vangelis Marinakis, Olympiacos vice president (and Piraeus mayor), Yiannis Moralis, Olympiacos CEO Dimitris Agrafiotis and two club vice presidents, Kostas Karapapas and Michalis Kountouris, should stand trial on misdemeanour charges. 

They are accused of financing and supporting a criminal organisation linked to a violent incident in the Piraeus suburb of Renti, which resulted in the death of police officer Giorgos Lyngeridis in 2023.

The ruling acquits nine defendants in the case, including the defendant accused as the physical perpetrator of the murder of the police officer, due to pending litigation, since his trial is underway in Piraeus.