[7] Vardinogiannis was included in Lloyd's List's Most Influential People in Shipping, and Forbes's The World's Billionaires with an estimated fortune of US$2.3 billion at the time of his death.

The interests include petroleum, shipping, banking, media, real estate, hotels, publishing and charity work.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, the group expanded in the new independent states of the Eastern Bloc, obtaining contracts for the opening of new highways in Ukraine and Georgia.

[16] Vardis Vardinogiannis and his wife Marianna were among the founders of the Robert Kennedy Human Rights Leadership Council, along with Bill Clinton and other world leaders.

[17] The 1993 wedding of Rory's older sister, Courtney Kennedy to Irishman Paul Hill was celebrated on the luxury yacht Varmar owned by Vardinogiannis.