Manthos Papadopoulos did time for bribing a police officer in 1998.

In 2005, his sentence served, he was the subject of bankruptcy proceedings.

But Papadopoulos’ colourful legal history proved no impediment to his subsequently owning and operating two clubs, Sydney Elements and Showgirls, on the same Kings Cross stretch notorious for its history of sleaze, crime and brutality.

It took two alleged violent assaults on women working at his club, one of which involved alleged choking, another where he allegedly slapped his penis in the face of one of the women, as well as a separate alleged assault on a man who visited the club, before Papadopoulos was finally prohibited by authorities.

Last week, the NSW Civil and Administrative Appeals Tribunal knocked back an application from the Cyprus-born 53-year-old to review a decision of the Independent Liquor and Gaming Authority to slap him with a Long-Term Banning Order.

The order prevents him from entering “any high-risk venue in the Kings Cross and Sydney CBD…