Greek businessman and publisher Giorgos Bombolas, born in 1929 in Piraeus, died at the age of 94.
Originally from Messinia and Laconia, his father was a guerrilla of the Greek People’s Liberation Army and fought in the National Resistance, and he himself was arrested at the age of 14 by the Nazi Germans for writing pro-Resistance slogans on walls in Kastella.
He continued his activity as a member of EPON. Bombolas later studied civil engineering at the National Technical University of Athens and looked for a job at the Ministry of Public Works without success, as he had been “labelled” as a communist.
Bombolas turned to the private sector and founded the construction company “Technodomi” with the later Minister of Public Works Evangelos Kouloubis as a key partner.
Active in construction, energy, and mass media (MME), with vehicle 2 companies:
* Ellactor, which arose after the merger of Aktor ATE and Hellenic Technodomiki SA in 1999.
* Pegasos Publishing, which owned the television station Mega Channel (by 25%, until November 2019, after the acquisition of the station in its entirety by Alter Ego Mass Media S.A.), the newspapers Ethnos and Imerisia (until 2017), and a number of websites and periodicals.
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