Makis Triantafyllopoulos


Efthimios "Makis" Triantafillopoulos is a Greek journalist and publisher. He was, along with Themos Anastasiadis, the editor of the Proto Thema newspaper and host of two television programmes, Zougla and Kitrinos Typos on Alter Channel. He uses his TV programmes to expose political scandals on television, usually using techniques like hidden cameras. He founded his own Sunday-newspaper "VETO" and is the owner of "zougla.gr", an internet-newspaper in Greece.
Some of his exposures include the football scandal of the so-called Paranga, the judicial scandal in 2005 and the Fakelaki amongst the medicines of the National Healthcare Service in Greece.

Biography

Triantafillopoulos was born in Thessaloniki in 1954 and is the son of Konstantinos Triantafyllopoulos, a Major General in the gendarmerie, who hailed from Leontio in Achaea, and Eugenia. His father, who died in January, 2012, was an officer and had served for many years in the personal security detail of the late prime minister Georgios Papandreou, at one point as head of the detail. During the period of the junta, he was court marshaled and exiled.
His first cousin was Dimitris Trantafyllopoulos, a journalist who had run for political office with New Democracy.
He studied at the University of Bologna, Italy, before transferring to the law school of the University of Athens.
He worked as a journalist and became known through his television show “Zougla” and “Kitrinos Typos” and collaborated with several television stations – Tempo, Star, Skai, Alpha, Alter, Zoom, and Epsilon.
Along with his broadcast television and publishing activity, he had radio shows and maintains a news website, Zougla.gr. In August, 2008, he became vice-president of Iraklis FC.

Career

In 2005, along with Tasos Karamitsos and Themos Anastasiadis, he co-founded the newspaper Proto Thema, the first issue of which was published on 27 February 2015. In March 2008, it was announced that Triantafyllopoulos sold his share of the newspaper to the Pegasus publishing company of the Bobolas family, for about 7.5 million euros.
In November, 2009, along with Thanasis Lalas, he issued the weekly newspaper Veto, which shut down in December, 2010, due to financial problems. Thanasis Lalas had earlier left the newspaper.