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Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 10 controversies, including “Challenge to Japanese baseball establishment: attempted purchase of Kintetsu Buffaloes and bid for a new franchise” and “Hostile raid on Nippon Broadcasting and struggle for control with Fuji Television”.
10 controversies · 14 sources1 conviction
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Naval technical lieutenant and participation in Japanese wartime research committee” and “Western Electric transistor licence signed despite MITI's initial opposition”.
9 controversies · 15 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Olkiluoto EPR: fixed-price contract, delays and massive losses for Areva” and “UraMin acquired for €1.8 billion before massive write-downs”.
9 controversies · 10 sources1 formal charge
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Acquisition of BG Group for approximately $50 billion despite falling oil prices” and “Multimillion-euro remuneration and shareholder revolts over his pay package”.
9 controversies · 18 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Use of Contract Pilots: Dispute over Employment, Social Contributions and Taxation” and “Dreamliner and Long-Haul Launch: Extensive Delays and Criticism of Premature Start”.
9 controversies · 17 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Massive accounting fraud at SK Global/SK Networks” and “Secret SK Securities–J.P. Morgan agreement imposing losses of over 100 billion won on affiliates”.
9 controversies · 13 sources2 convictions
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Confidential handling of Jaak Smeets's sexual misconduct” and “Lack of transparency and lobbying surrounding press distribution subsidies”.
9 controversies · 19 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Moriarty Tribunal: Esat Digifone, Payments Linked to Lowry and No Prosecution in 2026” and “Siteserv Sale to Millington and IBRC Inquiry”.
9 controversies · 15 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Botín family HSBC Swiss accounts: tax investigation closed after regularisation” and “"Cesiones de crédito" case and emergence of the "Botín doctrine"”.
9 controversies · 14 sources2 formal charges
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Parmalat takeover and prolonged dispute with minority shareholders” and “Milk producers blockade Lactalis plants during pricing crisis”.
9 controversies · 12 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Puma acquisition and substantial increase in PPR's debt” and “Swiss tax structures used by Gucci, Saint Laurent and Balenciaga and major tax reassessments”.
9 controversies · 15 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Rana Plaza: Joe Fresh clothing manufactured in the collapsed complex” and “Bread price-fixing scandal”.
9 controversies · 3 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Misleading advertising and "bait advertising": ACCC action, undertakings and court declarations” and “Comparison of Irish economic downturn to "potato famine"”.
9 controversies · 15 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Parmatour collapse: convicted at first instance of fraudulent bankruptcy, judgment overturned then finally acquitted” and “IMA publicly distances itself from Vacchi's image and clarifies he holds no management role”.
9 controversies · 16 sources2 formal charges
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Family battle over Hope Margaret Hancock Trust: loss of trustee control and severe judicial criticism” and “Hope Downs: Wright Prospecting awarded 50 % of historical and future royalties, but ownership claims against Hancock fail”.
9 controversies · 13 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Authoritarian takeover at Nintendo: dismissal of opponents and tightening of control after labour dispute” and “Universal sues Nintendo: Donkey Kong accused of copying King Kong”.
9 controversies · 15 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Repeated Stromatolyser-IM reagent recalls over Pseudomonas contamination and false platelet signals” and “XN-10/XN-20 analyser recall over risk of falsely elevated haemoglobin and platelet results”.
9 controversies · 18 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “1996: legal battle for control of Cantor Fitzgerald and settlement granting leadership to Lutnick” and “1999–2002: fiduciary duty lawsuit linked to 1996 Cantor settlement, ultimately dismissed as time-barred”.
9 controversies · 15 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Defamation proceedings against critical documentary "The Shakshuka System"” and “Successive Zim restructurings and losses imposed on creditors”.
9 controversies · 19 sources
Media and journalismBusiness and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Reuse of political communications techniques for commercial purposes: criticism of blurred boundaries” and “Communications advice for Togolese regime of Gnassingbé Eyadéma”.
9 controversies · 10 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “One.Tel collapse: massive losses, governance criticism and public apology” and “Statements concerning Crown and Echo: ACCC investigation followed by no action for insufficient evidence”.
9 controversies · 16 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Stock option backdating at RIM and resignation from chairmanship” and “Restatement of approximately 250 M$ in RIM accounts”.
9 controversies · 4 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Meeting with Vladimir Putin shortly after annexation of Crimea” and “Vision 2020: Siemens restructuring and thousands of job cuts”.
9 controversies · 21 sources
Business and billionaires
4th Viscount Rothermere, chairman and controlling owner of DMGT.
9 controversies · 12 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Omission of five affiliates from FTC declarations: prosecution followed by final acquittal” and “Kakao's "tentacular" expansion and accusations of abusing market dominance over small businesses”.
9 controversies · 19 sources2 formal charges
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “2001–July 2019: Jeffrey Epstein's executive secretary for approximately eighteen years” and “2001–2000s: regular scheduling of massages, transport and logistical payments”.
9 controversies · 12 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Lancôme cancels Denise Ho concert in Hong Kong following Chinese pressure campaign” and “Munroe Bergdorf dismissed from L'Oréal campaign, followed by accusation of racial hypocrisy”.
9 controversies · 14 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Removal of Michael Schulhof: power struggle over Sony America and entertainment operations” and “Six West: Idei compelled to testify in antitrust litigation concerning Sony/Loews cinemas”.
9 controversies · 19 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “EACOP/Tilenga projects in Uganda and Tanzania: environmental opposition and duty of vigilance litigation” and “Continued operations in Russia after invasion of Ukraine”.
9 controversies · 14 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Dispute with Christian Ringnes over Danish Hotels: Claim of Approximately NOK 1.5–1.6 Billion Followed by NOK 80 Million Settlement” and “Labour Inspections: Violations Identified at 26 Hotels in the Group”.
9 controversies · 20 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “2013–2014: relationship with Google X employee sparks internal controversy over professional boundaries” and “2012–2014: Google Glass, championed by Brin, triggers extensive privacy and surveillance controversy”.
9 controversies · 15 sources
Business and billionaires
Cypriot-British entrepreneur, founder of easyJet and easyGroup.
9 controversies · 18 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Historic conviction for fraud, corruption and stock market manipulation in Discount affair” and “Playtech transactions involving Sagi-linked assets or companies and governance criticism”.
9 controversies · 16 sources1 conviction
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Credit Suisse's exposure to the Luckin Coffee scandal” and “Approximately $450 million impairment linked to York Capital”.
9 controversies · 12 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Failure of ZOZOSUIT and made-to-measure brand: missed targets, revised profits and brand departures” and “¥100 million Twitter giveaway: world retweet record and allegations of "buying followers"”.
9 controversies · 14 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 8 controversies, including “BUA–Dangote mining rights dispute and request for presidential intervention” and “Cement: domestic oligopoly and pricing power of major producers”.
8 controversies · 12 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 8 controversies, including “€13.9 million remuneration at Fnac Darty and 'superbonus' controversy” and “Carrefour 2022 plan: 2 400 voluntary departures and disposal of 273 former Dia stores”.
8 controversies · 12 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 8 controversies, including “Elliott fund attacks Pernod Ricard's performance and governance” and “Allegations of pressure to drink alcohol in professional settings”.
8 controversies · 9 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 8 controversies, including “Brazil: workers at Zara subcontractors found in conditions analogous to slavery, followed by labour prosecutor agreement” and “Greenpeace detects hazardous substances in Zara clothing; "Detox" commitment following campaign”.
8 controversies · 18 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 8 controversies, including “Vivendi's acquisition of Havas: controversy over transaction between Bolloré-controlled companies” and “Mediaset battle: failure of Premium deal, stakebuilding and personal market manipulation investigation”.
8 controversies · 14 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 8 controversies, including “2022 restructuring plan: capital raising, dilution and 9,000 job cuts” and “Statements on stabilisation of client outflows: FINMA closes its review without proceedings”.
8 controversies · 12 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 8 controversies, including “2013 US sanctions over oil sales network and sanctions circumvention” and “Fraud and embezzlement linked to sanctioned oil sales: death sentence subsequently commuted”.
8 controversies · 12 sources1 conviction
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 8 controversies, including “Origin of the Lululemon name: reported remarks about Japanese people's difficulty pronouncing "L"” and “"Rise of Divorce" post: controversial links between contraception, divorce, stress and breast cancer”.
8 controversies · 15 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 8 controversies, including “Removal from Tata Sons and oppression/mismanagement litigation ultimately lost before the Supreme Court” and “Leak of confidential email dated 25 October 2016: NCLT finding cited by Supreme Court linking disclosure to Cyrus Mistry”.
8 controversies · 11 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 8 controversies, including “CASA chairmanship: official criticism of airspace reform management” and “Australia Day advertisement deemed offensive: parody of asylum seekers and sexual innuendo”.
8 controversies · 11 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 8 controversies, including “Allegations of mis-selling and hard-selling in edtech and government intervention: Divya Gokulnath involved in the response” and “FY21: 18-month delay, ₹4,588 crore loss, change in revenue recognition and Gokulnath's public defence”.
8 controversies · 15 sources
Business and billionaires
Media owner and member of the House of Lords.
8 controversies · 11 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 8 controversies, including “Synthes/Norian: unauthorised bone cement trials and convictions of former executives” and “Jacqueline Long: confidential settlement followed by civil action dismissed as covered by that agreement”.
8 controversies · 10 sources
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