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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
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 “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 convictions4 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
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 “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 billionairesScience, medicine and health
British inventor and entrepreneur, founder of the Dyson group.
10 controversies · 15 sources
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 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 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 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
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 10 controversies, including “Clairtone failure following subsidised expansion in Nova Scotia and public takeover” and “Lawsuit alleging insider trading following Clairtone”.
10 controversies · 15 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 10 controversies, including “DHFL/DOIT: allegation of a 600 crore rupee gratification in exchange for Yes Bank transactions” and “Avantha Realty: allegedly undervalued bungalow purchase presented as an illicit gratification”.
10 controversies · 21 sources3 formal charges
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 10 controversies, including “1990s/2000s–2019: Epstein's longstanding accountant and financial manager” and “2008–2019: continued work for Epstein after his conviction”.
10 controversies · 13 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 10 controversies, including “Hyperloop One: internal lawsuit alleging conflicts of interest, nepotism and abuse of control” and “Hillary Clinton fundraiser costing over 350,000 dollars: protests against money in politics”.
10 controversies · 16 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 10 controversies, including “Etiket transaction: family profit of approximately 8 million and disclosure failures” and “Yannon affair: undisclosed 18 million loss, lengthy investigation followed by final decision not to prosecute”.
10 controversies · 19 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 10 controversies, including “€436,563 donation to Sebastian Kurz's ÖVP and questioning by the Ibiza inquiry committee” and “Controversial public subsidies for KTM Motohall”.
10 controversies · 17 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 10 controversies, including “1971: reported guilty plea to attempted theft of a diamond ring” and “1986–1988: sale of over $20 million in unregistered notes — SEC injunction and rescission offer”.
10 controversies · 15 sources2 convictions
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