Category
334 profiles
287 profiles of this category are not translated yet: see the French page.
Sort: by name · by number of controversies
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the Supreme Court” and “Nusli Wadia: defamation proceedings following the Tata–Mistry dispute, ultimately quashed and withdrawn”.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 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 7 controversies, including “RIL 2000: Nita Ambani named as a noticee in SEBI's 2021 order concerning the takeover code” and “BCCI conflict-of-interest complaint involving Mumbai Indians and Viacom18's IPL rights, subsequently withdrawn”.
7 controversies · 13 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Final conviction for manipulation of IDB share price around 2012 share offering” and “IDB debt collapse and loss of control of business empire to creditors”.
7 controversies · 17 sources1 conviction
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “OVH anti-piracy policy initially announced as highly restrictive, then clarified” and “WikiLeaks hosting in France and OVH's application to courts”.
7 controversies · 14 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Gezi Park: Koç Group's Divan Hotel shelters protesters, provoking government political attack” and “Tax inspections at Tüpraş, Aygaz and Opet after Gezi: suspected political retaliation denied by government”.
7 controversies · 14 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “"Africa loves Trump" at Davos: controversy and apology” and “Disclosed political party funding by companies linked to Motsepe”.
7 controversies · 17 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Bourse Direct: partial deprivation of voting rights on presumption of concerted action” and “Bourse Direct sanctioned by AMF over failures to detect and report suspicious transactions”.
7 controversies · 13 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Bertelli recounts smashing badly parked cars' headlights with a hammer” and “Jil Sander: power struggle with Prada, designer's successive departures and resale after difficult years”.
7 controversies · 9 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Acquisition of Red Letter Days after administration” and “ASA complaints about BT 'Gremlins' advertisements featuring Peter Jones ultimately dismissed”.
7 controversies · 10 sources
Business and billionairesPolitics and government
British businessman, former owner of BHS and controlling figure of Arcadia Group.
7 controversies · 14 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “IPO announced then postponed twelve days later” and “GDPR fine for cookies placed without valid consent”.
7 controversies · 11 sources
Media and journalismBusiness and billionaires
British media executive, former editor of the News of the World and the Sun, and subsequently chief executive of News UK.
7 controversies · 13 sources1 formal charge
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Separation of Large Drives Applications: employee protests before creation of Innomotics” and “Marco Polo strategy: plans for rapid expansion in China followed by dependency debate”.
7 controversies · 18 sources
Business and billionairesFilm, television and entertainment
Producer, manager and founder of 19 Entertainment / XIX Entertainment.
7 controversies · 13 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Loft Story contestants' contracts challenged over extent of rights assigned” and “M6 accuses TF1 and Endemol of copying Loft Story with Star Academy”.
7 controversies · 14 sources1 conviction
Business and billionairesPolitics and government
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Massive France Télécom restructuring and elimination of thousands of positions through non-replacement” and “Appointment as Finance Minister and debate over conflicts of interest linked to France Télécom and private directorships”.
7 controversies · 10 sources
Business and billionaires
Founder and chairman of JD Wetherspoon.
7 controversies · 10 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “G.D. Foods: criminal complaint arising from a banking dispute ultimately quashed by the Delhi High Court” and “Charu Motors/Pegasus: summons for cheating and breach of trust quashed due to absence of specific acts attributed to Uday Kotak”.
7 controversies · 15 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Havas–Vivendi conflict of interest and loss of Ubisoft account” and “Vivendi acquisition of Havas: intra-family transaction and concerns over impartiality in media buying”.
7 controversies · 12 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 6 controversies, including “Presidential palaces funds: conviction for embezzlement of public funds” and “Stock market manipulation: detention and trial followed by acquittal in 2020”.
6 controversies · 13 sources1 conviction2 formal charges
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 6 controversies, including “Decades of political donations to both major parties and debate over billionaires' access to decision-makers” and “Very low taxation of Pratt Consolidated Holdings despite high profits and revenue”.
6 controversies · 11 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 6 controversies, including “Herlin Inheritance Dispute over Control of KONE” and “Suspected Insider Dealing in Partek Share Purchases, Ultimately No Prosecution”.
6 controversies · 12 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 6 controversies, including “Resignation from Flipkart following investigation into an unsubstantiated allegation of personal misconduct” and “Flipkart FEMA/FDI proceedings: ED show-cause notice and High Court refusal to halt proceedings”.
6 controversies · 16 sources
Business and billionairesFilm, television and entertainment
Documented profile covering 6 controversies, including “2012–2019: prolonged social, cultural and professional relationship with Jeffrey Epstein after his conviction” and “November 2012: Caroline Lang provides bank details of a family association for €100,000 in funding promised by Epstein”.
6 controversies · 8 sources
Business and billionaires
British property developer, founder of CPC Group.
6 controversies · 8 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 6 controversies, including “Mudstone land project and village green inquiry” and “Ploughcroft investment followed by administration after prior sale of her shares”.
6 controversies · 8 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 6 controversies, including “Calciopoli / Fiorentina: sporting sanctions and first-instance criminal conviction, proceedings subsequently time-barred on appeal” and “Fiorentina: separate trial for false accounting and obstruction relating to claimed Calciopoli damages, acquitted in 2018”.
6 controversies · 14 sources1 formal charge
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 6 controversies, including “Debt crisis and AMCON settlement of approximately 141 billion naira subject to parliamentary scrutiny” and “Fuel subsidies: sting operation involving Farouk Lawan, Lawan's conviction and renewed allegations in 2025”.
6 controversies · 12 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 6 controversies, including “BlaBlaCar booking fees considered complex, followed by pricing changes” and “Spanish unfair competition action brought by Confebús against BlaBlaCar”.
6 controversies · 13 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 6 controversies, including “NZ First Foundation: Donations from Hart-Linked Entities Just Below Disclosure Threshold” and “Over NZ$800,000 in Declared Donations to National, ACT and NZ First”.
6 controversies · 12 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 6 controversies, including “'EBIT macht frei' phrase: unintended reference to Auschwitz slogan and public apology” and “Xinjiang: Diess claims not to know about re-education camps despite Volkswagen's Urumqi plant”.
6 controversies · 14 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 6 controversies, including “Involvement in Swedish Nazi Movement and Security Police Files” and “Continued Relations with Fascist Leader Per Engdahl After the War”.
6 controversies · 10 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 6 controversies, including “Brandalley's complaint over Vente-privee's alleged abuse of dominance and exclusivity arrangements ultimately rejected” and “'vente-privee.com' word mark invalidated at first instance then upheld on appeal”.
6 controversies · 11 sources1 formal charge
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 6 controversies, including “Michelin announces approximately 700 job cuts at Joué-lès-Tours weeks after ruling out reductions” and “Closure of two Michelin factories in Colombia during global review of smaller sites”.
6 controversies · 11 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 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 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 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 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 $2 billion capital shortfall” and “Pamukbank: embezzlement conviction involving loans to his own companies, upheld in 2016”.
6 controversies · 12 sources1 conviction
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 6 controversies, including “Alcatel-Lucent Shift plan: 10 000 job cuts announced” and “Sale of Alcatel-Lucent to Nokia: concerns over jobs and loss of a leading French company”.
6 controversies · 8 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 6 controversies, including “Stock option backdating at RIM: SEC/OSC proceedings and personal settlement” and “NTP patent dispute: RIM pays 612,5 M$ to end proceedings”.
6 controversies · 13 sources
Business and billionaires
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
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
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
Entrepreneur and property investor.
6 controversies · 10 sources
Search covers names and aliases — not the content of profiles.