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Last year, Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis placed the club into a blind trust in case they qualified for the Champions League.<\/p>\n
That could have presented a conflict with his other club, Olympiakos. <\/p>\n
With Forest in the semi-finals of the Europa League, once again they have a chance of being in the Champions League. And Olympiakos look like being in it too.<\/p>\n
In a blind trust, relevant parties transfer their shares to independent trustees, whereby all the decision-making of the club will rest solely under the control of the third party.<\/p>\n
The club are controlled through a company called NF Football Investments.<\/p>\n
Until 28 February, Marinakis was the only person with significant control. <\/p>\n
He was removed and it was passed to another company, Pittville Four Limited, controlled by Janet Lucy Gibson, Henry Peter Hickman and Eleanor Catherine Walsh.<\/p>\n
Those three independent trustees were also added to the football club’s board, replacing Mighael Dugher, Simon Forster and Jonathan Owen.<\/p>\n
Forest’s problem could be that the new additions had to pass the Premier League’s owners and directors test. <\/p>\n
It was not until 17 April that Companies House was updated. <\/p>\n
The Premier League’s register of directors, last updated on 2 April, still lists Marinakis, Dugher, Forster and Owen.<\/p>\n
Will the lodging of the blind trust on 28 February be enough? Or would Uefa consider 17 April to be date the club were compliant?<\/p>\n
Forest are adamant that control was officially relinquished by Marinakis on 28 February and they will have no issue with Uefa. <\/p>\n
Two years ago, the CFCB accepted a blind trust to admit Manchester City and Girona to the Champions League, and Manchester United and Nice to the Europa League, satisfied that multi-cub ownership issues had been resolved. <\/p>\n
However, at the time it stated that it “will not be bound by this alternative in subsequent seasons”.<\/p>\n
Until the CFCB makes another ruling on a blind trust, there is no absolute certainty it would be accepted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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