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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 27 controversies, including “Oracle: aggressive accounting practices and revenue restatement in early 1990s” and “'Trashgate': Oracle pays private investigators to investigate Microsoft allies”.
27 controversies · 47 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 25 controversies, including “First Boston: approximately $100 million loss following interest-rate bet, derailing his internal rise” and “Financial crisis: BlackRock public mandates and criticism over conflicts of interest”.
25 controversies · 43 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 3 controversies, including “Closure of German plant and transfer of production volumes to Poland” and “Laval plant closure and production transfer affecting 93 jobs”.
3 controversies · 5 sources
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 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 23 controversies, including “Drexel Burnham Lambert: professional closeness to Michael Milken during junk bond scandal, without personal charges against Black” and “Caesars: disputed restructurings before bankruptcy and examiner's report estimating up to $5.1 billion in potential claims”.
23 controversies · 35 sources
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 23 controversies, including “Jeffrey Epstein becomes Wexner's financial adviser and obtains exceptionally broad power of attorney” and “Epstein serves as a trustee of the Wexner Foundation for fifteen years”.
23 controversies · 40 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “"Black Diamond" affair: investigation into alleged diamond smuggling at LLD, Leviev questioned then personal case closed” and “UNICEF cuts ties with Leviev following controversy over his companies' activities in West Bank settlements”.
7 controversies · 16 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 4 controversies, including “Olayan Financing v. Qatar: investor-state arbitration arising from Gulf diplomatic crisis” and “2004 Jeddah Economic Forum: mixed-gender speech on women's equality and response from Grand Mufti”.
4 controversies · 8 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 5 controversies, including “Post-Fukushima Action 2016 plan: recruitment freeze and workforce reductions” and “Olkiluoto 3: Luc Oursel acknowledges Areva's engineering and documentation errors”.
5 controversies · 8 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Italia '90: cost overruns, delays and construction accidents at centre of parliamentary criticism” and “Confindustria versus Berlusconi and politics: public clashes over reforms, taxation and attacks on business”.
7 controversies · 11 sources
Business and billionaires
Entrepreneur, investor and former chairman of Channel 4.
7 controversies · 12 sources
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 7 controversies, including “2000: SEC settlement after MicroStrategy accounts overstated revenue and earnings” and “2020–2022: MicroStrategy transformed into debt-financed Bitcoin treasury vehicle”.
7 controversies · 11 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
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