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Capital Product Partners LP (CPLP), controlled by Greek shipowner Evangelos Marinakis, and Diamond S Shipping (DSS), whose main stakeholder is the WL Ross & Co private investment fund founded in 2000 by US Trade Secretary Wilbur Ross, announced on Wednesday they have reached a merger deal for a new entity whose value is estimated at $1.65 billion.

Shipping magnate Vangelis Marinakis and the government appear to be heading for a full-on political confrontation after he claimed on Tuesday that he has visited Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's office many times in the past and has helped his administration.

Greek shipping tycoon and the owner of Olympiakos Piraeus and Nottingham Forest soccer teams, Vangelis Marinakis, denied any links to drug trafficking on Saturday, a day after a Greek prosecutor brought preliminary charges against him.

A Piraeus prosecutor has brought charges of drug trafficking and financing an illegal enterprise against the shipowner and businessman Vangelis Marinakis in connection with the Noor 1 heroin smuggling case.

Efthimis Yiannousakis, a former shipowner convicted to life in prison in connection with the Noor 1 heroin smuggling case, attempted suicide shortly after his transfer to Attica's Dafni psychiatric hospital, his lawyer claimed on Sunday.

The probe by judicial authorities into allegations by a convicted drug smuggler that Defense Minister Panos Kammenos tried to pressure him into testifying against prominent businessman Vangelis Marinakis, has been shelved.

The government remained in defensive mode Thursday as the main opposition New Democracy submitted a request for a special parliamentary committee to investigate allegations by a convicted drug smuggler that Defense Minister Panos Kammenos tried to pressure him into testifying against a prominent businessman.

The government remained in defensive mode Thursday as the main opposition New Democracy submitted a request for a special parliamentary committee to investigate allegations by a convicted drug smuggler that Defense Minister Panos Kammenos tried to pressure him into testifying against a prominent businessman.

New Democracy on Thursday filed an official request for a special parliamentary committee to investigate claims by a convicted drug smuggler that Defense Minister Panos Kammenos tried to pressure him into testifying against a prominent businessman in exchange for political protection.

New Democracy is expected to table an official request for a special committee to investigate allegations that Defense Minister Panos Kammenos pressured Makis Yiannousakis - serving a life sentence over the so-called Noor 1 case involving a huge shipment of heroin intercepted in Greece in 2014 - to implicate shipowner Vangelis Marinakis in the case.