Saravakos took a penalty kick and the ball hit the post

Vardis Vardinogiannis, one of the biggest names in business in our country, breathed his last on Tuesday morning.

Lately he had been dealing with health problems that plagued him, while his condition was further aggravated after the death of his wife, Marianna.

In November 1990 it took place attack with three rockets against him since 17 November. The rockets found the target of the car in Dilboi Square, Nea Erythraia. The then 57-year-old businessman was saved due to the armor of his vehicle, but also due to the uncoordinated detonation of a bomb placed in a parked car.

According to reports of the time, he, in a conversation he had immediately afterwards with his close friend Antonis Livanis, then director of Andreas Papandreou’s political office, reportedly said with proverbial calm: “Saravakos took a penalty kick and the ball hit the post”

Twelve years later, in 2002, Christodoulos Xiros admitted his participation in the attempted assassination of Vardinogiannis, as well as three more members of the terrorist organization.