Business and billionaires
Ilkka Paananen
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “First GREE Verdict: $8.5 Million for Patent Infringement” and “Second GREE Verdict: $92.2 Million in Separate Patent Case”.
7 controversies · 11 sources
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Jean-Bernard Lévy
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Plan to extend working time for managers withdrawn amid internal opposition” and “Hinkley Point C: finance director resigns over investment timetable”.
7 controversies · 13 sources
Business and billionaires
Jitse Groen
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Increase in Thuisbezorgd commissions and allegations of market power over restaurants” and “Acquisition of Grubhub for $7.3 billion followed by sale for $650 million”.
7 controversies · 11 sources
Business and billionaires
Johann Graf
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Charges in the Casinos Austria / Peter Sidlo affair” and “Political sponsorship network and the 'Novomatic zahlt alle' controversy”.
7 controversies · 12 sources1 formal charge
Business and billionaires
José María Álvarez-Pallete
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Abrupt replacement as Telefónica chairman amid shareholder restructuring and weak share performance” and “Severance and departure settlement amounting to tens of millions of euros”.
7 controversies · 13 sources
Business and billionaires
Kim Jung-ju
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Nexon–NCSoft control dispute following acquisition of stake in Kim Taek-jin's company” and “Jin Kyung-joon case: "free shares", car and travel benefits alleged to be bribes, followed by Kim's acquittal”.
7 controversies · 16 sources1 formal charge
Business and billionaires
Koo Kwang-mo
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Inheritance tax dispute over valuation of LG estate, lost at first instance” and “Family inheritance and LG control lawsuit: first-instance victory for Koo, followed by appeal”.
7 controversies · 11 sources
Business and billionaires
Lakshmi Mittal
Steel industrialist and executive chairman of ArcelorMittal.
7 controversies · 14 sources
Business and billionaires
Lev Leviev
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
Luca Cordero di Montezemolo
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
Luke Johnson
Entrepreneur, investor and former chairman of Channel 4.
7 controversies · 12 sources
Business and billionaires
Marc Coucke
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
Marco Tronchetti Provera
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
Mark Epstein
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
Martin Bouygues
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
Masaru Ibuka
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
Michael Saylor
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
Mohammed Al Amoudi
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Detention during Saudi anti-corruption purge followed by release without detailed public charges” and “Saudi Star in Gambella: controversy over land concessions and population displacement”.
7 controversies · 17 sources
Business and billionaires
N. Chandrasekaran
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
Nandan Nilekani
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
Narayana Murthy
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
Nita Ambani
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
Nochi Dankner
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
Octave Klaba
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
Ömer Koç
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
Patrice Motsepe
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
Patrick Combes
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
Patrizio Bertelli
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
Peter Jones
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
Philip Green
British businessman, former owner of BHS and controlling figure of Arcadia Group.
7 controversies · 14 sources
Business and billionaires
Pieter Zwart
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
Rebekah Brooks
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
Roland Busch
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
Simon Fuller
Producer, manager and founder of 19 Entertainment / XIX Entertainment.
7 controversies · 13 sources
Business and billionaires
Stéphane Courbit
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
Thierry Breton
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
Tim Martin
Founder and chairman of JD Wetherspoon.
7 controversies · 10 sources
Business and billionaires
Uday Kotak
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
MusicBusiness and billionaires
Victoria Beckham
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “2015: criticism of extremely thin models at her New York fashion show” and “2011–2019: PETA campaigns against exotic skins, followed by brand ban”.
7 controversies · 13 sources
Business and billionaires
Yannick Bolloré
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
Alaa Mubarak
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
Anthony Pratt
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
Antti Herlin
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
Binny Bansal
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
Caroline Lang
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
Christian Candy
British property developer, founder of CPC Group.
6 controversies · 8 sources
Business and billionaires
Deborah Meaden
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
Diego Della Valle
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