The Fall of Robin Symes
The downfall of Robin Symes started with a conflict with the family of his late partner Christo Michaelides, son and heir of the Papadimitriou shipping family. After Michaelides death, a conflict arose over the ownership of Michaelides' assets. Dimitri Papadimitriou spent millions to prove his legal claim to half of the Robin Symes Limited assets, a legal case Papadimitriou eventually won and which pushed Symes into bankruptcy, resulting in his conviction on 21 January 2005.
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