If the average person stole thousands of dollars
from a business they would be charged and jailed. Fact. Why is he not in jail?! 
Little arsehole.

Nice comment, insulting, borderline racist but not factually correct.
PAOK and Sydney FC are the only clubs with Russian owners that havent had their assets frozen that I know of.

He is back at MV and so is the PR machine, he and his kids copped about ten mentions at the MV presidents function on Saturday. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/09/us/politics/russia-macedonia-greece.html

We definitely need more Greeks and Russian owners in Australia

Doubt it.

But we could ask them why he hasn't been banned for 5 years.

Or is there a seperate set of rules for TEN/FOX employees 

A chef being a fuckwit. Well I never.

Can we blame the FFA for unpaid wages at Colombaris' restaurant? 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-13/george-calombaris-hellenic-republic-restaurant-pay-claims/9987356

I hope Newcastle Security are on the lookout for this man

The president of Greek club PAOK Salonika has apologised after he came on to the pitch with a gun during his side's match on Sunday.
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"My only aim was to protect tens of thousands of PAOK fans from provocation, riots and human casualties," Savvidis added.
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"Unfortunately, my family and I, as well as my colleagues, have been taken hostage by a totally sick football status quo.

Greece's top soccer league suspended after PAOK owner Ivan Savvidis invades pitch with gun

Greece has indefinitely suspended its top soccer league, a day after the owner of PAOK Thessaloniki marched onto the field carrying a gun following a disputed goal in a match.
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Giorgos Vasileiadis, Greece's Deputy Minister for Sport, met with Greece's Prime Minister and said league play was suspended, adding it would not restart "if there is not a new, clear framework agreed to by all so we can move forward with conditions and regulations".

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-13/greece-top-soccer-league-suspended-over-gun-incident/9541842?section=sport

LOLOOLOL

  Greece has faced an unusually volatile league championship this season, with traditionally dominant Olympiakos — which has failed to win the title only twice in the past 21 years — in third place, behind leader AEK and PAOK.

Savvidis, who took over PAOK in 2012, is a Russian-Greek businessman born in Georgia during the Soviet era who made his money with the privatisation of a cigarette factory in southern Russia in the 1990s.

His Agrocom company has extensive interests in tobacco, agriculture and real estate.

He spent two terms in Russian parliament from 2003-11.

Hahah the Greek story is great! He needs to buy CCM so I can see him come on with his gun for every dodgy VAR call.

Might need a lock on the VAR door

Let SMFC into the league and this will be happening on a weekly basis. 

Greek football match stopped after team owner invades pitch with a gun

Ivan Savvidis came on the field accompanied by bodyguards and carrying what appeared to be a pistol in a holder

A disputed goal at the end of a match in the Greek Superleague between Paok Salonika and AEK Athens has led to a pitch invasion by one of the team owners, who appeared to be carrying a gun.

Fernando Varela scored with a header in the 90th minute, putting the home team, Paok, ahead 1-0 and on course to close the gap between themselves in third spot and leaders AEK.The referee signalled a goal but then seemed to disallow it for offside.Paok’s owner, the businessman Ivan Savvidis, came on the field twice and was accompanied by bodyguards. On the second occasion, without the overcoat he was wearing before, Savvidis appeared to be carrying a pistol which was in its holder. 
AEK officials claimed Savvidis threatened the referee during his first foray onto the pitch, before being pulled away.The game was suspended and the crowd was told to disperse. Adding to the widespread confusion, there were claims that the referee, Giorgos Kominis, had allowed the goal.

The Superleague’s website recorded the match as a 0-0 draw and showed AEK still leading the table on 55 points, with Olympiacos in second on 53 points and Paok still in third on 50.

An official statement was expected from the league.

Assault costs chef $750,000

Calombaris said he lost two key ambassadorship roles within two days of the incident being televised, including a $250,000 deal with Bulla Dairy and close to half a million dollars a year from the motor group ULR.

But Calombaris said the emotional impact was greater than the financial consequences and admitted he had hurt the victim, his family, friends, stakeholders and business partners.

He also said he recognised that he was a role model and that he was working towards "being a better man".

I think punishment by court now is fair, the loud mouth prick probably deserved a harder whack - who mouths off and then cries. Typical millennial ‘just banter’ crap. But ffa is a complete hypocritical joke.

This is bullshit. It’s a disgrace he has not been handed an FFA ban.

https://www.fourfourtwo.com.au/news/calombaris-a-league-assault-conviction-overturned-482230

still guilty

just the 'punishment' has changed

Guess he needed the 'conviction' to disappear for other reasons

And he's not going to get one seeing as the ruling has just been overturned..
https://www.9news.com.au/national/2018/01/31/13/03/calombaris-s-a-league-assault-overturned

Whether he is guilty of a crime is irrelevant. 

The FFA have form for banning fans regardless of whether they are legally at fault or not and if this wage theft prick was a non-celebrity fan then he would have got a 5 year ban without question.

5 months later still no FFA ban despite Calombaris pleading Guilty

Whole lot of shaking going on, and no shit jokes for his media buddies this time on his printed palm cards



http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/george-calombaris-has-assault-conviction-overturned-on-appeal-20180131-h0r36l.html

3 months later

Is this on the AGM agenda ?

Wish I saw this before I booked my last flights. Fuck. I'll be bursting out of my skin eating whateer that bloke's been cooking.

But on the other hand, shit it's funny for him to do a deal with Qatar. That country is best in the business for the slave trade.

Some of that was almost a haiku.

Celebrity chef George Calombaris thought a teenager was insulting his mother when he assaulted him after the A-League grand final in May, a court has heard.

Calombaris, who appears in Channel Ten reality TV show Masterchef, was due to be sentenced today for assaulting the 19-year-old Sydney FC fan in the stands of the Sydney Football Stadium.

However, Downing Centre Local Court magistrate David Price declined to pass sentence without the assistance of a pre-sentence report.Mr Price said the assault took place in public and was a "serious crime"."The accused pointed at the victim and said 'you're a big-mouthed man you dodgy c***'," Mr Price said."He then punched him in the lower abdomen."

The 38-year-old pleaded guilty to common assault via his lawyer last month after video emerged of him confronting the fan, then being ushered away by police.

In the video, Calombaris shakes his Melbourne Victory scarf at the victim, who was yelling abuse.Calombaris then approached the man and shoved him in the chest.

His lawyer, Pat Conaghan said Calombaris thought the teenager was insulting his mother."He expressed that he believed the victim had called his mother a c*** and took offence to that," Mr Conaghan said.

He asked the court to impose community service."For someone with no prior offences, this is on the low end of the criminal calendar," he said.

But Mr Price disagreed and ordered a pre-sentence report in order, which would highlight any extenuating circumstances that could impact the sentence.Calombaris will be sentenced in six weeks.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-08/george-calombaris-sentence-for-assault-delayed/8885064

Some restaurant staff still not paid entitlements

Meanwhile, Calombaris's restaurant empire has been criticised for failing to meet a deadline to back pay former staff who were underpaid and did not receive their entitlements.In April, Calombaris apologised after 162 of his company Made Establishment Group's 430 employees — including staff at his Melbourne restaurants The Press Club, Gazi and Hellenic Republic — were short-changed a total of $2.6 million.On Thursday, the company released a statement that said former staff were still waiting for payments."We understand the frustration of our former employees and have apologised for our past poor systems and processes that resulted in employees not being paid their full entitlements under the award. We are committed to resolving this as quickly as possible," it said."We have also taken action to try and speed up the process and reduce delays. We have employed additional resources to help in calculating and reconciling the entitlements, some of which go back six years."Each week we continue to process payments of claims from former employees."A spokeswoman for the Fair Work Ombudsman said it was understood the majority of wage reconciliations for former employees had been completed.However, those that remain outstanding have taken longer than expected to complete."While we appreciate that large-scale reconciliations can take considerable time and resources, we do not believe it is reasonable for former employees to have to wait this long to receive wages owed to them," the spokeswoman said.

So FFA ban

Whoever they want,

For as long as they decide 

Based on their own 'private' evidence

And people keep handing cash over to this organization propping up its cartel

An FFA spokesmen said the banning process is separate of legal proceedings.

BREAKING: Not even the FFA know.

Same. I emailed the club asking a few months ago and got nothing.
He should be treated like any other punter.
Ffa and victory have treated this poorly.