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Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 13 controversies, including “Persistent Debate over Low Royalties Paid to Artists” and “Discovery Mode: Algorithmic Promotion for Reduced Royalties, Criticised by US Congress”.
13 controversies · 30 sources
Business and billionairesScience, medicine and health
Documented profile covering 13 controversies, including “2005–2010: no-poaching agreements between Google and other technology companies under his leadership” and “2006: Schmidt defends censored version of Google in China”.
13 controversies · 22 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 13 controversies, including “Glencore: corruption and market manipulation during his leadership” and “Prosecution of former Glencore executives for corruption”.
13 controversies · 21 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 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
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 13 controversies, including “Klarna App Privacy Incident: Other Customers' Data Visible” and “GDPR Sanction Against Klarna for Insufficient Customer Information”.
13 controversies · 31 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 12 controversies, including “2001–2002: Alleged failure to comply fully with SEC subpoena” and “1997–2001: RADR — concealed interests, undisclosed loans and secret payments”.
12 controversies · 5 sources1 conviction
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 12 controversies, including “1997–2002: Approximately $270m in KELP loans, mostly used for unauthorised personal purposes” and “1990s–2002: Relocation loans used and reclassified to finance property and private spending”.
12 controversies · 8 sources1 conviction1 formal charge
SportBusiness and billionaires
Documented profile covering 12 controversies, including “LaLiga app: microphone and geolocation used to detect illegal broadcasts in bars, AEPD fine ultimately overturned by Supreme Court” and “Biometric recognition in stadiums: €1 million AEPD penalty”.
12 controversies · 22 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 12 controversies, including “1999–2001: More than $2.3bn in Adelphia debt concealed through co-borrowing facilities” and “1999–2001: Sham transactions and documents used to create appearance of debt repayments”.
12 controversies · 6 sources1 conviction1 formal charge
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 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 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 12 controversies, including “Resignation from Web Summit Following Israel–Hamas War Comments, Then Return as CEO” and “Legal Battle Between Web Summit Co-Founders Settled in 2025”.
12 controversies · 21 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 12 controversies, including “Tata Tea, ULFA and the "Tata Tapes": allegations of links to the separatist organisation and lobbying of the central government” and “Tata Finance: scandal involving hundreds of crores and Dilip Pendse's allegation that senior management knew”.
12 controversies · 22 sources
Business and billionaires
British industrialist, founder and head of GFG Alliance and Liberty Steel.
12 controversies · 21 sources1 formal charge
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 12 controversies, including “2006: DP World's acquisition of P&O sparks US political storm over port security, followed by sale of American assets” and “2008–2010: optimistic assurances before Dubai World debt crisis, followed by bin Sulayem's replacement at Nakheel and Dubai World”.
12 controversies · 21 sources
Business and billionairesPolitics and government
Documented profile covering 11 controversies, including “Civil conviction for partial copyright infringement in book about Spinoza” and “Second copyright infringement judgment concerning his book on René Bousquet”.
11 controversies · 20 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 11 controversies, including “Ola Electric faces CCPA/BIS scrutiny following more than 10,000 consumer complaints” and “FIR for abetment following an Ola Electric employee's suicide: disputed harassment allegations”.
11 controversies · 20 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 11 controversies, including “Prolonged dispute with pilots over early retirement and Eurowings strategy” and “Germanwings flight 4U9525 crash: institutional crisis responsibility without personal attribution of disaster”.
11 controversies · 26 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 11 controversies, including “Italian 'enhanced repo' transactions: Sewing's role in approval/audit and conflict-of-interest allegations after acquittals” and “Moscow audit and 'mirror trades': criticism of internal controls under Sewing”.
11 controversies · 24 sources
Business and billionairesPolitics and government
Documented profile covering 11 controversies, including “January 2017: appointment as Donald Trump's senior adviser and controversy over anti-nepotism law” and “2016–2017: Russian contacts, request for a secure communication channel and meeting with Sergey Gorkov”.
11 controversies · 30 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
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 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 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 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
Documented profile covering 11 controversies, including “First major austerity programme under Källenius: workforce reductions and tensions with works council” and “Retreat from 'electric only' target: reassessment of 2030 strategy”.
11 controversies · 21 sources
Business and billionairesArts, letters and intellectuals
Documented profile covering 11 controversies, including “2017–2018: indirect funding of Project Birmingham and disinformation campaign during Alabama Senate election” and “2013–2015: repeated meetings with Epstein after his conviction during MIT fundraising”.
11 controversies · 12 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 11 controversies, including “Operação Monte Branco: Arrest and Suspicion of Five Offences” and “Banco de Portugal: €3.75 Million Fine and Ban from Financial Positions over Sale of ESI Debt”.
11 controversies · 22 sources2 convictions5 formal charges
Business and billionairesFilm, television and entertainment
Television producer, entrepreneur and Syco executive.
11 controversies · 19 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 11 controversies, including “Riot after Millwall play-off under his chairmanship” and “Attack on Football League: comparison to a 'kebab shop'”.
11 controversies · 17 sources
Business and billionairesSport
Documented profile covering 11 controversies, including “Mani Pulite / Publivis: 19-month suspended sentence through patteggiamento for false accounting, false invoices and misappropriation” and “Break with Fininvest: abrupt dismissal and retrospective conflict with Marcello Dell'Utri”.
11 controversies · 22 sources1 conviction
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 10 controversies, including “2011 pay rise challenged amid job cuts and industrial dispute” and “Worldwide grounding of Qantas fleet during industrial dispute”.
10 controversies · 19 sources
Business and billionairesPolitics and government
British entrepreneur, founder of Amstrad, former Tottenham Hotspur chairman and presenter of The Apprentice.
10 controversies · 14 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 10 controversies, including “Transfer of residence to Switzerland and controversy over lost Belgian tax revenue” and “Unsuccessful appeal in his €144 million claim against Ageas”.
10 controversies · 20 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 10 controversies, including “Cement: criticism of an empire built with public protection and strong market dominance” and “Refinery: battle over import licences and accusations of seeking monopoly”.
10 controversies · 19 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 10 controversies, including “Botín family's HSBC Swiss accounts: tax investigation closed following regularisation” and “Andrea Orcel recruitment fiasco: Santander ordered to compensate him”.
10 controversies · 18 sources
Business and billionaires
Indian-British industrialist, founder of Vedanta Resources.
10 controversies · 18 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 10 controversies, including “Public and financial support for Donald Trump on technology-policy grounds” and “Switch to Kamala Harris three months after supporting Trump”.
10 controversies · 15 sources
Science, medicine and healthBusiness and billionaires
Documented profile covering 10 controversies, including “NIH: patent applications for thousands of ESTs, controversy over patentability of gene fragments” and “Celera versus public consortium: genome race and fears of privatising human genetic data”.
10 controversies · 17 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 10 controversies, including “« Food doesn't have a religion »: public stance following a customer's refusal to accept delivery from a Muslim” and “Delivery workers' strike in Howrah over pay, with a secondary controversy concerning pork and beef”.
10 controversies · 16 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 10 controversies, including “1992: Massive bet against pound sterling during 'Black Wednesday'” and “1988–2011: French insider trading conviction in Société Générale case; European appeal rejected”.
10 controversies · 13 sources1 conviction
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 10 controversies, including “Hostile battle for control of TBS” and “Englishnization: mandatory English at Rakuten and strong internal resistance”.
10 controversies · 23 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 10 controversies, including “PIC's R4.3 billion investment in AYO: valuation and pension funds” and “Independent Media: recurring allegations of editorial interference and use of titles to defend owner's interests”.
10 controversies · 24 sources
Business and billionairesPolitics and government
Documented profile covering 10 controversies, including “2011: Alipay transferred to Jack Ma-controlled company without alleged prior approval from Yahoo and SoftBank” and “2013: Remarks attributed to Jack Ma describing Tiananmen crackdown as 'most correct' decision”.
10 controversies · 15 sources
Business and billionairesScience, medicine and health
British inventor and entrepreneur, founder of the Dyson group.
10 controversies · 15 sources
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