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Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 4 controversies, including “Massive banking fraud: fraudulent letters of credit, money laundering and death sentence” and “Bribery and bank collusion network: more than thirty payments acknowledged”.
4 controversies · 7 sources1 conviction1 formal charge
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 3 controversies, including “Carrefour Kenya: abuse of buyer power over suppliers by Majid Al Futtaim subsidiary” and “Conflict with cousin Abdulla Al Futtaim: division of family empire mediated by Dubai leadership”.
3 controversies · 7 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 22 controversies, including “HP: influential board role during governance crisis and controversial Autonomy acquisition” and “Facebook: back-channel communications with Zuckerberg during share reclassification negotiations”.
22 controversies · 34 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Perrigo/Omega Pharma arbitration: Belgian tribunal finds fraud by sellers and awards Perrigo approximately €355 million” and “US Perrigo investor proceedings: Coucke named in complaints before being dismissed or withdrawn from the actions”.
7 controversies · 15 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 11 controversies, including “Executive Life: participation in takeover arrangement that triggered major US legal affair” and “Transfer of family holding company to Luxembourg: disputed tax optimisation followed by victory against tax authorities”.
11 controversies · 15 sources1 conviction
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 8 controversies, including “Meetic ordered in urgent proceedings to remove sponsored links using Easyrencontre trademark” and “Prolonged Meetic–2L Multimedia litigation over trademarks, domain names and content”.
8 controversies · 15 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Telecom Italia: proposed separation of fixed-line and mobile businesses, political conflict and resignation as chairman” and “Telecom 'dossier illegali': security governance crisis, without Tronchetti personally placed under investigation in main case”.
7 controversies · 14 sources1 formal charge
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 10 controversies, including “Lodo Mondadori: Fininvest's civil liability and Marina Berlusconi's repeated attacks on court decisions” and “Mondadori tax dispute resolved through provision denounced by opposition as 'salva-Mondadori'”.
10 controversies · 21 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 5 controversies, including “Property dispute with Anat Agmon over 50% of Globes group” and “DayTwo closes after raising approximately $85 million and cutting most jobs”.
5 controversies · 8 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “1990s–2019: Ossa Properties, 301 East 66th Street and property ties with Jeffrey Epstein” and “2005–2008: unlawful eviction of Echelon Photography — civil liability and treble damages”.
7 controversies · 16 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 5 controversies, including “Inheritance of 49% of Red Bull and dividends amounting to hundreds of millions of euros” and “Governance crisis involving Christian Horner and power struggle at Red Bull Racing”.
5 controversies · 10 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 4 controversies, including “Steinhoff accounting fraud: central scheme, R475 million FSCA fine and criminal proceedings ended by his death” and “Sanction for disclosing inside information to associates before Steinhoff's collapse”.
4 controversies · 15 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Bid-rigging in major public works contracts during 1990s” and “Formally placed under investigation in Botton–Noir case, then acquitted”.
7 controversies · 17 sources1 formal charge
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 3 controversies, including “Cyprus Structure and Tax Planning on Major Capital Gain” and “'Zero Understanding' for Artists Demanding Better Streaming Pay”.
3 controversies · 6 sources
Business and billionaires
Founder of WPP and subsequently S4 Capital.
8 controversies · 13 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 8 controversies, including “Record Volkswagen remuneration and controversy over executive pay system” and “Power struggle with Ferdinand Piëch at Volkswagen”.
8 controversies · 18 sources1 formal charge
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 6 controversies, including “2023 report: longstanding knowledge of Johnny's abuse, persistent denial and major role in institutional concealment” and “Retaliation against Kodansha after 1981 Shūkan Gendai article”.
6 controversies · 11 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Work on "new military equipment" during the war before Sony was founded” and “Transistor project: MITI initially refuses, deeming Ibuka's gamble unrealistic for a small company”.
7 controversies · 14 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 18 controversies, including “Yahoo! BB: data leak affecting 4.5 million people and six-month 50% salary cut for Son” and “Sprint abandons planned T-Mobile acquisition amid resistance from US regulators”.
18 controversies · 29 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 11 controversies, including “Takeover of Le Monde: media concentration, political influence and editorial independence” and “Lazard mandate on BPI: suspected political-media conflict of interest”.
11 controversies · 19 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 6 controversies, including “Failure of international alliance with FCB and acrimonious split” and “Renault affair: forwarding of a bribery suspicion subsequently found unfounded”.
6 controversies · 14 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 6 controversies, including “Pamukbank placed under TMSF control after approximately $2 billion capital shortfall” and “Pamukbank: embezzlement conviction involving loans to his own companies, upheld in 2016”.
6 controversies · 12 sources1 conviction
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 13 controversies, including “Discrimination Against a Disabled Passenger over Wheelchair Charges” and “Public Clash over Climate Change and Rejection of Carbon Trading”.
13 controversies · 24 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 6 controversies, including “Alcatel-Lucent Shift plan: 10 000 job cuts announced” and “Sale of Alcatel-Lucent to Nokia: concerns over jobs and loss of a leading French company”.
6 controversies · 8 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 8 controversies, including “Court orders closure of first version of QuiEstLeMoinsCher.com over unlawful comparative advertising” and “Leclerc campaign on non-reimbursed medicines deemed aggressive and unfair”.
8 controversies · 11 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 3 controversies, including “Separation of co-founders Romanow/D'Souza and Clearco leadership reorganisation” and “Clearco turnaround: major workforce cuts, international withdrawal and Romanow's departure as CEO”.
3 controversies · 5 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 11 controversies, including “PTDF–ETB–Globacom: EFCC arrest and controversy over public deposits benefiting Adenuga's bank” and “Globacom: regulatory debt of approximately 154 billion naira before NCC restores services”.
11 controversies · 16 sources
Business and billionaires
British entrepreneur, founder of Sports Direct and controlling shareholder of Frasers Group, former owner of Newcastle United.
13 controversies · 21 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 8 controversies, including “Massive funding of Climate 200 and debate over billionaires' political influence” and “Two hostile bids for AGL with Brookfield, rejected as undervaluing the company”.
8 controversies · 17 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 6 controversies, including “Stock option backdating at RIM: SEC/OSC proceedings and personal settlement” and “NTP patent dispute: RIM pays 612,5 M$ to end proceedings”.
6 controversies · 13 sources
Business and billionaires
British technology entrepreneur, co-founder of Autonomy and founder of Invoke Capital.
4 controversies · 9 sources1 formal charge
Business and billionairesPolitics and government
Documented profile covering 5 controversies, including “Panama Papers: directorship of Panamanian companies” and “Ynna Holding / Fives FCB: prolonged arbitration proceedings and attempted asset seizure”.
5 controversies · 9 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 2 controversies, including “2018 Sidi Ali boycott: prices, purchasing power and debate over exploitation of water resources” and “CGEM: rumour of changes to statutes to allow a third term”.
2 controversies · 6 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 5 controversies, including “Prada tax investigation: settlement followed by request to close case, without personal conviction” and “Prada Japan: appearance-based discrimination allegation ultimately rejected by Japanese courts”.
5 controversies · 11 sources
Business and billionaires
Egyptian businessman, former owner of Harrods, the Ritz Paris and Fulham FC, who died in 2023.
10 controversies · 17 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 6 controversies, including “Resignation as Transport Minister following El-Ayyat railway disaster” and “Palm Hills: controversy over public land sales to a family group in which he was a shareholder”.
6 controversies · 9 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Detention during Saudi anti-corruption purge followed by release without detailed public charges” and “Saudi Star in Gambella: controversy over land concessions and population displacement”.
7 controversies · 17 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 2 controversies, including “Huda Beauty: US class action over Neon Obsessions palettes settled” and “Huda Beauty boycott linked to Iran: Mona Kattan publicly distances herself from sister and supports Iranians”.
2 controversies · 5 sources
Politics and governmentBusiness and billionaires
Documented profile covering 6 controversies, including “Saham agricultural insurance agreement: conflict of interest suspicions and suspension” and “Al Barid Bank: conflict of interest suspicions surrounding insurance tender”.
6 controversies · 8 sources
Celebrities, influencers and social mediaBusiness and billionaires
Documented profile covering 30 controversies, including “Old 2017 content: racist/homophobic remarks and sexualised joke about teenage girl, followed by acknowledgement of "inappropriate" language” and “Video funding 1 000 cataract operations: debate over monetising philanthropy and disability representation”.
30 controversies · 51 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 21 controversies, including “Reliance succession: public confrontation with Anil Ambani after Dhirubhai's death, followed by family division” and “RIL–RNRL: Ambani brothers' legal battle over KG-D6 gas pricing resolved in favour of government framework”.
21 controversies · 46 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 4 controversies, including “Restructuring of Yıldız Holding's $6.5 billion debt” and “Multiple investigations into alleged links with Gülen movement, closed without prosecution”.
4 controversies · 6 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Cyrus Mistry case: NCLAT declared Chandrasekaran's appointment unlawful, a decision overturned by the Supreme Court” and “Nusli Wadia: defamation proceedings following the Tata–Mistry dispute, ultimately quashed and withdrawn”.
7 controversies · 11 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 6 controversies, including “Satirical tweet depicting Mickey and Minnie in Islamic dress: religious offence proceedings subsequently dismissed” and “Political funding and role in opposition to the Muslim Brotherhood before Morsi's downfall”.
6 controversies · 9 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Aadhaar: privacy, exclusion, data security and surveillance risks” and “2014 elections: BJP complaint over Aadhaar advertisements displaying his name and image”.
7 controversies · 11 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “National anthem at Infosys Mysore: controversy, criminal complaints, apology and subsequent judicial quashing” and “Satyam: refusal to hire its employees during the accounting scandal”.
7 controversies · 11 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 5 controversies, including “OCI: tax dispute over sale to Lafarge, travel ban, sentence linked to settlement, then favourable tax ruling” and “Departure from the UK following non-dom status reform: controversy over the tax influence of the ultra-wealthy”.
5 controversies · 9 sources
Business and billionaires
Entrepreneur and property investor.
6 controversies · 10 sources
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