Background
Vardis Vardinogianniswas born in 1933 in Episkopi, Rethymno, Crete, the son of poor farmers.
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Vardis Vardinogianniswas born in 1933 in Episkopi, Rethymno, Crete, the son of poor farmers.
Vardinoyannis attended a military school, and in 1951 he obtained the diploma.
He is the chairman and controlling shareholder of Motor Oil Hellas, Vegas Oil and Gas and involved in numerous other shipping and business interests. Vardinogiannis was listed in the Lloyd"s List Most Influential People in Shipping. They had eight children, six boys and two girls.
Everyone helped in the fields from an early age.
Vardinoyannis took elementary school during the Second World War, when Crete was occupied by the Germans. In the postwar years he moved to Athens.
Unlike the other more or less patriarchal Greek dynasties, the Vardinogiannis clan has spread its Netto worldwide and operates as a tight-knit group of relatives controlling numerous successful companies in a variety of sectors. Today their interests range from petroleum and shipping, to banking and media, to real estate and hotels, to publishing and charity work.
As of 2015, the Vardinogiannis family have stakes in 98 companies in total in Greece and abroad.
In subsequent years the four brothers continued to extend the group, staying away from flash and magazines. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the group expanded in the new independent states of the former communist bloc obtaining contracts for the opening of new highways in Ukraine and Georgia. The Vardinoyannis brothers owned the merchant ship Ioanna V which, in 1966, broke the United Nations-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.
This move had brought huge profits to the Group.
On 20 November 1990, the Greek terrorist group Revolutionary Organization attempted to murder him. He was saved thanks to his high-armored Mercedes which was armored according to the specifications of England and France counter groups.
The wedding of Rory Kennedy, daughter of Robert and Ethel Kennedy with Mark Bailey was celebrated in Greek mansion of Vardinogiannis in upscale Ekali Athens.