Paul Anastasi

Paul Anastasi, the author of ABOLOFF, is a longtime foreign correspondent and author based in Athens, Greece, who in the last 15 years has focused more on the profession of private investigator- or private detective, as the term is better known. He is of British and Greek Cypriot nationality and his three children are French.

Anastasi obtained BA and MA Honours degrees in Modern History, Politics and Sociology from the Universities of Southampton and London. He interrupted his PhD degree course at London University after entering professional journalism.

As a foreign correspondent, he worked for many years firstly for the Associated Press news agency, then the New York Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, BBC and CNN Radio, several British tabloids, and more recently Newsweek (Europe) magazine. As an author he has written six books in Greek and English, three of them on the role of the former Soviet KGB secret services in the infiltration of the Greek and international media. As a result, he was awarded the international Goldsmith Award for investigative journalism.

For several years he was also Greece’s media representative to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, and founder and director of the Foreign Press Department of the City of Athens leading up to the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.

More than a decade ago Anastasi founded Marathon Investigations (www.investigations.gr), an Athens-based international bureau for private research and business investigations that cover Greece, Cyprus, and the adjacent countries of Southeast Europe. He is a full member of the World Association of Detectives (W.A.D.), the Council of International Investigators (C.I.I.), of Intellenet, and of the World Association of Private Investigators (W.A.P.I.)