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Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 8 controversies, including “Garnier convicted in recruitment-related racial discrimination case” and “Controversy following Jean-Paul Agon's statements on 'positive discrimination' at L'Oréal”.
8 controversies · 11 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 5 controversies, including “Société Générale control failures exposed by Kerviel affair” and “€100 000 AMF sanction for insider dealing breach, without criminal prosecution”.
5 controversies · 9 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 65 controversies, including “Bear Stearns: internal fine, 60-day suspension and subsequent resignation” and “Towers Financial: consultant role alongside Steven Hoffenberg in operations later associated with massive fraud”.
65 controversies · 87 sources1 conviction1 formal charge
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 23 controversies, including “2000–2003: financial restatement and SEC cease-and-desist order against Nvidia” and “Stock options: $127.4 million restatement after review of grant dates”.
23 controversies · 35 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 22 controversies, including “JPMorgan Private Bank: close professional and subsequently personal relationship with Jeffrey Epstein” and “After Epstein's conviction: continued contacts, visits to Palm Beach and the Virgin Islands, and approximately 1,200 emails”.
22 controversies · 35 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Stock option backdating at RIM and resignation from chairmanship” and “Restatement of approximately 250 M$ in RIM accounts”.
9 controversies · 4 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 4 controversies, including “Zenith Bank–Femi Otedola: allegations of unauthorised transactions, followed by amicable settlement” and “900 MHz spectrum: controversial award to Cyberspace without auction, subsequently returned”.
4 controversies · 7 sources
Business and billionaires
British industrialist, founder and chairman of INEOS, co-owner of Manchester United.
14 controversies · 22 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Increase in Thuisbezorgd commissions and allegations of market power over restaurants” and “Acquisition of Grubhub for $7.3 billion followed by sale for $650 million”.
7 controversies · 11 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
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Charges in the Casinos Austria / Peter Sidlo affair” and “Political sponsorship network and the 'Novomatic zahlt alle' controversy”.
7 controversies · 12 sources1 formal charge
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 5 controversies, including “2018 remarks about economic behaviour and accusations of racial stereotyping” and “Control of Richemont through enhanced voting rights shares and governance challenge”.
5 controversies · 10 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 11 controversies, including “De Gouden Kooi: violence, sexual scenes and political calls for a boycott” and “Dismissal of Talpa creative director: repeated court setbacks for employer”.
11 controversies · 15 sources
Business and billionaires
4th Viscount Rothermere, chairman and controlling owner of DMGT.
9 controversies · 12 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 12 controversies, including “South Africa: Controversy over Export of Hundreds of Protected Cycads to Madeira” and “Fundação José Berardo: Ministério Público Sought Nullification of Statutes over Risk of 'Tax Avoidance and Fraud'”.
12 controversies · 25 sources2 formal charges
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Abrupt replacement as Telefónica chairman amid shareholder restructuring and weak share performance” and “Severance and departure settlement amounting to tens of millions of euros”.
7 controversies · 13 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 13 controversies, including “Mannesmann affair: breach of trust trial, acquittal overturned, then proceedings discontinued after 3,2-million-euro payment” and “Victory sign at Mannesmann trial and remark about the debate being 'typically German'”.
13 controversies · 24 sources1 formal charge
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 10 controversies, including “Statements on the crisis: "work harder", risk of intervention and criticism of Spain's social model” and “Bárcenas documents: alleged donations to PP denied by Roig before the judge”.
10 controversies · 15 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 6 controversies, including “2023 independent report: inadequate response to knowledge of abuse, governance inaction and resignation as President” and “Retention of 100% ownership of former company and Smile-Up/new agency restructuring”.
6 controversies · 14 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 10 controversies, including “CO₂ allowance VAT fraud: investigation into Fitschen over signed tax return, ultimately closed” and “Call to Hesse Minister-President following raid: allegations of political interference and subsequent regret”.
10 controversies · 21 sources1 formal charge
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 6 controversies, including “Revolt by eleven young employees in 1961 over overtime and Sunday work” and “Acquisition of Cybernet: repeated strikes and union campaign branding him a "dishonest employer"”.
6 controversies · 13 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 4 controversies, including “World Series Cricket: breakaway league, secret player recruitment and television rights war” and “"Goanna" affair: extremely serious Costigan Commission allegations followed by no charges and rehabilitation”.
4 controversies · 9 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 11 controversies, including “The Learning Company/Mattel: post-acquisition collapse and securities litigation” and “Statement describing extreme global inequality as "fantastic news"”.
11 controversies · 23 sources
Business and billionairesPolitics and government
Documented profile covering 4 controversies, including “Manchester City: 115 alleged Premier League financial rule breaches, verdict still awaited” and “Manchester City v Premier League: separate legal battle over APT sponsorship rules”.
4 controversies · 8 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 5 controversies, including “Aramco: cautious opposition to IPO, followed by loss of chairmanship and Energy Ministry” and “Regional headquarters programme: access to public contracts conditional on establishing Saudi presence”.
5 controversies · 10 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 7 controversies, including “Nexon–NCSoft control dispute following acquisition of stake in Kim Taek-jin's company” and “Jin Kyung-joon case: "free shares", car and travel benefits alleged to be bribes, followed by Kim's acquittal”.
7 controversies · 16 sources1 formal charge
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 8 controversies, including “Sale of 14.7% of NCSoft to Nexon followed by restructuring affecting approximately 400 employees” and “Control dispute with Nexon after its shareholding was reclassified as "management participation"”.
8 controversies · 16 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 12 controversies, including “Conviction in Corruptly Obtained Navigation Certificate Case” and “Aker RGI Compulsory Buyout: Dispute over Undervaluation of Minority Shareholders”.
12 controversies · 23 sources1 conviction
Business and billionairesPolitics and government
Documented profile covering 21 controversies, including “1998–2000: $8 million USWeb contract followed by Schwab joining its board with stock options — conflict-of-interest controversy” and “2017–2025: recurring criticism of his remuneration, WEF financial transparency and public funding of security”.
21 controversies · 30 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Inheritance tax dispute over valuation of LG estate, lost at first instance” and “Family inheritance and LG control lawsuit: first-instance victory for Koo, followed by appeal”.
7 controversies · 11 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 3 controversies, including “Enhanced voting rights shares at Naspers/Prosus and criticism of concentrated control” and “Historic share option remuneration and enrichment linked to Naspers' share price rise”.
3 controversies · 7 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 3 controversies, including “CRED launch: concerns over email access and data privacy” and “CRED's substantial losses followed by an approximately 45% valuation decline in its 2025 down round”.
3 controversies · 8 sources
Business and billionaires
Steel industrialist and executive chairman of ArcelorMittal.
7 controversies · 14 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 6 controversies, including “Cocaine overdose in Turin and prosecution investigation” and “New York: fake kidnapping and false report allegations dropped by prosecutor”.
6 controversies · 11 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 27 controversies, including “Oracle: aggressive accounting practices and revenue restatement in early 1990s” and “'Trashgate': Oracle pays private investigators to investigate Microsoft allies”.
27 controversies · 47 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 25 controversies, including “First Boston: approximately $100 million loss following interest-rate bet, derailing his internal rise” and “Financial crisis: BlackRock public mandates and criticism over conflicts of interest”.
25 controversies · 43 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 3 controversies, including “Closure of German plant and transfer of production volumes to Poland” and “Laval plant closure and production transfer affecting 93 jobs”.
3 controversies · 5 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 10 controversies, including “MERS crisis at Samsung Medical Center: public apology for hospital failures” and “Corruption in Park Geun-hye/Choi Soon-sil scandal: final conviction following retrial”.
10 controversies · 19 sources2 convictions1 formal charge
Business and billionairesPolitics and government
Documented profile covering 12 controversies, including “Payments into former President Roh Tae-woo's slush fund: corruption conviction” and “1997 presidential pardon following conviction in Roh Tae-woo affair”.
12 controversies · 17 sources2 convictions
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 23 controversies, including “Drexel Burnham Lambert: professional closeness to Michael Milken during junk bond scandal, without personal charges against Black” and “Caesars: disputed restructurings before bankruptcy and examiner's report estimating up to $5.1 billion in potential claims”.
23 controversies · 35 sources
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 23 controversies, including “Jeffrey Epstein becomes Wexner's financial adviser and obtains exceptionally broad power of attorney” and “Epstein serves as a trustee of the Wexner Foundation for fifteen years”.
23 controversies · 40 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “"Black Diamond" affair: investigation into alleged diamond smuggling at LLD, Leviev questioned then personal case closed” and “UNICEF cuts ties with Leviev following controversy over his companies' activities in West Bank settlements”.
7 controversies · 16 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 4 controversies, including “Olayan Financing v. Qatar: investor-state arbitration arising from Gulf diplomatic crisis” and “2004 Jeddah Economic Forum: mixed-gender speech on women's equality and response from Grand Mufti”.
4 controversies · 8 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 5 controversies, including “Post-Fukushima Action 2016 plan: recruitment freeze and workforce reductions” and “Olkiluoto 3: Luc Oursel acknowledges Areva's engineering and documentation errors”.
5 controversies · 8 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Italia '90: cost overruns, delays and construction accidents at centre of parliamentary criticism” and “Confindustria versus Berlusconi and politics: public clashes over reforms, taxation and attacks on business”.
7 controversies · 11 sources
Business and billionaires
Entrepreneur, investor and former chairman of Channel 4.
7 controversies · 12 sources
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