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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
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 10 controversies, including “Challenge to Japanese baseball establishment: attempted purchase of Kintetsu Buffaloes and bid for a new franchise” and “Hostile raid on Nippon Broadcasting and struggle for control with Fuji Television”.
10 controversies · 14 sources1 conviction
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Naval technical lieutenant and participation in Japanese wartime research committee” and “Western Electric transistor licence signed despite MITI's initial opposition”.
9 controversies · 15 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Olkiluoto EPR: fixed-price contract, delays and massive losses for Areva” and “UraMin acquired for €1.8 billion before massive write-downs”.
9 controversies · 10 sources1 formal charge
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Acquisition of BG Group for approximately $50 billion despite falling oil prices” and “Multimillion-euro remuneration and shareholder revolts over his pay package”.
9 controversies · 18 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Use of Contract Pilots: Dispute over Employment, Social Contributions and Taxation” and “Dreamliner and Long-Haul Launch: Extensive Delays and Criticism of Premature Start”.
9 controversies · 17 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Massive accounting fraud at SK Global/SK Networks” and “Secret SK Securities–J.P. Morgan agreement imposing losses of over 100 billion won on affiliates”.
9 controversies · 13 sources2 convictions
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Confidential handling of Jaak Smeets's sexual misconduct” and “Lack of transparency and lobbying surrounding press distribution subsidies”.
9 controversies · 19 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Moriarty Tribunal: Esat Digifone, Payments Linked to Lowry and No Prosecution in 2026” and “Siteserv Sale to Millington and IBRC Inquiry”.
9 controversies · 15 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Botín family HSBC Swiss accounts: tax investigation closed after regularisation” and “"Cesiones de crédito" case and emergence of the "Botín doctrine"”.
9 controversies · 14 sources2 formal charges
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Parmalat takeover and prolonged dispute with minority shareholders” and “Milk producers blockade Lactalis plants during pricing crisis”.
9 controversies · 12 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Puma acquisition and substantial increase in PPR's debt” and “Swiss tax structures used by Gucci, Saint Laurent and Balenciaga and major tax reassessments”.
9 controversies · 15 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Rana Plaza: Joe Fresh clothing manufactured in the collapsed complex” and “Bread price-fixing scandal”.
9 controversies · 3 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Misleading advertising and "bait advertising": ACCC action, undertakings and court declarations” and “Comparison of Irish economic downturn to "potato famine"”.
9 controversies · 15 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Parmatour collapse: convicted at first instance of fraudulent bankruptcy, judgment overturned then finally acquitted” and “IMA publicly distances itself from Vacchi's image and clarifies he holds no management role”.
9 controversies · 16 sources2 formal charges
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Family battle over Hope Margaret Hancock Trust: loss of trustee control and severe judicial criticism” and “Hope Downs: Wright Prospecting awarded 50 % of historical and future royalties, but ownership claims against Hancock fail”.
9 controversies · 13 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Authoritarian takeover at Nintendo: dismissal of opponents and tightening of control after labour dispute” and “Universal sues Nintendo: Donkey Kong accused of copying King Kong”.
9 controversies · 15 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Repeated Stromatolyser-IM reagent recalls over Pseudomonas contamination and false platelet signals” and “XN-10/XN-20 analyser recall over risk of falsely elevated haemoglobin and platelet results”.
9 controversies · 18 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “1996: legal battle for control of Cantor Fitzgerald and settlement granting leadership to Lutnick” and “1999–2002: fiduciary duty lawsuit linked to 1996 Cantor settlement, ultimately dismissed as time-barred”.
9 controversies · 15 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Defamation proceedings against critical documentary "The Shakshuka System"” and “Successive Zim restructurings and losses imposed on creditors”.
9 controversies · 19 sources
Media and journalismBusiness and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Reuse of political communications techniques for commercial purposes: criticism of blurred boundaries” and “Communications advice for Togolese regime of Gnassingbé Eyadéma”.
9 controversies · 10 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “One.Tel collapse: massive losses, governance criticism and public apology” and “Statements concerning Crown and Echo: ACCC investigation followed by no action for insufficient evidence”.
9 controversies · 16 sources
Celebrities, influencers and social mediaBusiness and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “2000s–2017: Old racist videos and remarks resurface, followed by public apology” and “2019: Intervention in Tati Westbrook–James Charles dispute, extreme accusations followed by apology and withdrawal”.
9 controversies · 13 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 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
4th Viscount Rothermere, chairman and controlling owner of DMGT.
9 controversies · 12 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 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 9 controversies, including “Lancôme cancels Denise Ho concert in Hong Kong following Chinese pressure campaign” and “Munroe Bergdorf dismissed from L'Oréal campaign, followed by accusation of racial hypocrisy”.
9 controversies · 14 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Removal of Michael Schulhof: power struggle over Sony America and entertainment operations” and “Six West: Idei compelled to testify in antitrust litigation concerning Sony/Loews cinemas”.
9 controversies · 19 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “EACOP/Tilenga projects in Uganda and Tanzania: environmental opposition and duty of vigilance litigation” and “Continued operations in Russia after invasion of Ukraine”.
9 controversies · 14 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Dispute with Christian Ringnes over Danish Hotels: Claim of Approximately NOK 1.5–1.6 Billion Followed by NOK 80 Million Settlement” and “Labour Inspections: Violations Identified at 26 Hotels in the Group”.
9 controversies · 20 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “2013–2014: relationship with Google X employee sparks internal controversy over professional boundaries” and “2012–2014: Google Glass, championed by Brin, triggers extensive privacy and surveillance controversy”.
9 controversies · 15 sources
Business and billionaires
Cypriot-British entrepreneur, founder of easyJet and easyGroup.
9 controversies · 18 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Historic conviction for fraud, corruption and stock market manipulation in Discount affair” and “Playtech transactions involving Sagi-linked assets or companies and governance criticism”.
9 controversies · 16 sources1 conviction
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Credit Suisse's exposure to the Luckin Coffee scandal” and “Approximately $450 million impairment linked to York Capital”.
9 controversies · 12 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Failure of ZOZOSUIT and made-to-measure brand: missed targets, revised profits and brand departures” and “¥100 million Twitter giveaway: world retweet record and allegations of "buying followers"”.
9 controversies · 14 sources
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