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Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 5 controversies, including “IEF proposals for social and economic reform: civil servants, pensions, co-payments and employment law” and “Rana Plaza: disputed link to a workshop preparing Mango samples and change of position on compensation”.
5 controversies · 11 sources
Business and billionairesMedia and journalism
Media executive and investor, former executive at News International, 21st Century Fox and Sky.
5 controversies · 9 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 5 controversies, including “First CNIL investigation into Criteo's advertising practices closed without action” and “New CNIL investigation into Criteo features and products”.
5 controversies · 12 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 5 controversies, including “Société Générale control failures exposed by Kerviel affair” and “€100 000 AMF sanction for insider dealing breach, without criminal prosecution”.
5 controversies · 9 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 5 controversies, including “2018 remarks about economic behaviour and accusations of racial stereotyping” and “Control of Richemont through enhanced voting rights shares and governance challenge”.
5 controversies · 10 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 5 controversies, including “Aramco: cautious opposition to IPO, followed by loss of chairmanship and Energy Ministry” and “Regional headquarters programme: access to public contracts conditional on establishing Saudi presence”.
5 controversies · 10 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 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 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 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 5 controversies, including “Prada tax investigation: settlement followed by request to close case, without personal conviction” and “Prada Japan: appearance-based discrimination allegation ultimately rejected by Japanese courts”.
5 controversies · 11 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 5 controversies, including “OCI: tax dispute over sale to Lafarge, travel ban, sentence linked to settlement, then favourable tax ruling” and “Departure from the UK following non-dom status reform: controversy over the tax influence of the ultra-wealthy”.
5 controversies · 9 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 5 controversies, including “Kazaa: International Litigation over File Sharing and Copyright” and “Skype and China: Keyword Filtering by TOM-Skype”.
5 controversies · 9 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 5 controversies, including “FIR alleging cheating and breach of trust involving a laptop supplier” and “Tax notice concerning gains from the sale of Flipkart to Walmart”.
5 controversies · 9 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 5 controversies, including “Detention in 2017 anti-corruption purge and unclear subsequent status” and “Post-9/11 civil proceedings: Dallah Al-Baraka and Saleh Kamel accused of financial support, claims dismissed”.
5 controversies · 11 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 5 controversies, including “Scott Farquhar's weak password reportedly enabled major Atlassian intrusion, according to historical investigation published in 2026” and “Multimillion-dollar donations to Climate 200 and controversy over major donors' influence”.
5 controversies · 11 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 5 controversies, including “Bury Lawn School: parental revolt against GEMS governance and abandonment of academy project” and “Dubai: over 90% fee increase at Dubai Modern High School and dispute over tuition caps”.
5 controversies · 10 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 5 controversies, including “$15.3 billion acquisition of XL Group despite strong market scepticism” and “Major litigation with restaurateurs over Covid-19 business interruption losses”.
5 controversies · 11 sources
Business and billionairesSport
Documented profile covering 5 controversies, including “Collapse of Waterford Wedgwood and Job Losses” and “Personal Financial Collapse and Bankruptcy in the Bahamas”.
5 controversies · 9 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 5 controversies, including “Opposition to Sheshinski reform increasing taxation of gas profits” and “Delek Real Estate debt restructuring with substantial losses for bondholders”.
5 controversies · 12 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 4 controversies, including “Walloon steel industry: sales commission system and accusations of privatising gains while socialising losses” and “1988 Société Générale de Belgique takeover battle: sale at the peak and substantial capital gain during a national control crisis”.
4 controversies · 11 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 4 controversies, including “Growing family control over governance of LVMH and Christian Dior SE” and “Personal tensions within Arnault family over succession”.
4 controversies · 8 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 4 controversies, including “Seizure of nearly £675,000 at London City Airport, subsequently returned on appeal” and “SARS tax dispute concerning personal liability for debt linked to restructuring”.
4 controversies · 8 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 4 controversies, including “Reuters acquisition: concentration of family control and safeguards for editorial independence” and “Transfers of loss-making companies to Woodbridge affiliates: related-party transactions and tax optimisation”.
4 controversies · 9 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 4 controversies, including “Dispute with Donne Botha over existence of marriage and property rights” and “Donne Botha: assault allegations and private prosecution after prosecutors decline to proceed”.
4 controversies · 4 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 4 controversies, including “Non-compliance with Section 139 of the Companies Act: compounding and personal fees paid by Falguni Nayar” and “238-day delay in appointing a company secretary: non-compliance compounded in 2021”.
4 controversies · 6 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 4 controversies, including “Egypt: conviction in absentia in Gamsha Bay land case, subsequently suspended after settlement” and “Donald Trump partnership: recurring criticism of conflicts between private business and US presidency”.
4 controversies · 8 sources1 conviction
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 4 controversies, including “Family succession at Reliance and debate over dynastic governance” and “Proposed Future Retail acquisition: Reliance at the centre of Amazon-Future litigation”.
4 controversies · 11 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 4 controversies, including “Zenith Bank–Femi Otedola: allegations of unauthorised transactions, followed by amicable settlement” and “900 MHz spectrum: controversial award to Cyberspace without auction, subsequently returned”.
4 controversies · 7 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 4 controversies, including “World Series Cricket: breakaway league, secret player recruitment and television rights war” and “"Goanna" affair: extremely serious Costigan Commission allegations followed by no charges and rehabilitation”.
4 controversies · 9 sources
Business and billionairesPolitics and government
Documented profile covering 4 controversies, including “Manchester City: 115 alleged Premier League financial rule breaches, verdict still awaited” and “Manchester City v Premier League: separate legal battle over APT sponsorship rules”.
4 controversies · 8 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 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 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
British technology entrepreneur, co-founder of Autonomy and founder of Invoke Capital.
4 controversies · 9 sources1 formal charge
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 4 controversies, including “Restructuring of Yıldız Holding's $6.5 billion debt” and “Multiple investigations into alleged links with Gülen movement, closed without prosecution”.
4 controversies · 6 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 4 controversies, including “De Beers guilty plea for industrial diamond price-fixing” and “Debate over displacement of Kalahari San and De Beers' diamond interests”.
4 controversies · 11 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 4 controversies, including “Pandora Papers: beneficial owner of British Virgin Islands company” and “Bank of Spain: personal fine in BMCE Bank International governance sanction”.
4 controversies · 5 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 4 controversies, including “Audi Dieselgate: fraud conviction becomes final in 2025” and “Audi replaces four management board members amid Dieselgate crisis but retains Stadler”.
4 controversies · 10 sources1 conviction
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 4 controversies, including “Pandora Papers: yacht held through offshore company in the British Virgin Islands” and “Unimer Proteins: group subsidiary caught up in investigation involving 3.6 tonnes of cannabis”.
4 controversies · 10 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 4 controversies, including “Morocco Mall: Moroccan journalists excluded from opening ceremony” and “E-commerce in 2022: suspected conflict of interest surrounding tighter customs rules and Wasal project”.
4 controversies · 10 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 4 controversies, including “Orascom Development: initial two-year sentence over financial disclosures, followed by discontinuation of the case” and “Refusal to make new investments in Egypt due to repression and weaknesses in the rule of law”.
4 controversies · 7 sources1 formal charge
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 4 controversies, including “Room Mate dispute: bank guarantees attributed to Sandra Ortega and signatures found to be forged” and “Series of criminal complaints by Sandra Ortega against former manager José Leyte, several dismissed”.
4 controversies · 11 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 4 controversies, including “2006 Attempt to Take The Warehouse Private: Price Considered Low and Governance Criticism” and “New Privatisation Attempt with Adamantem: Offer Abandoned for Lack of Key Shareholder Support”.
4 controversies · 8 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 4 controversies, including “2013–2014: Jeffrey Epstein arranges meetings between Steve Tisch and several young adult women” and “2017 / disclosed in 2026: last documented email extends relationship well beyond 2013 and prompts challenges to 'brief association' description”.
4 controversies · 8 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 4 controversies, including “US Senate hearing: defence of Toyota's electronics during the unintended acceleration crisis” and “Paice hybrid patents: jury finds infringement under doctrine of equivalents involving Prius technology”.
4 controversies · 7 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 3 controversies, including “Botswana: accusations of money laundering, political financing and destabilisation ultimately retracted with official apology” and “"Worse Than Apartheid" film: allegation of offering more than R3 million to stop project, denied amid extortion accusation”.
3 controversies · 6 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 3 controversies, including “WIPO domain name dispute over "Sabancı" between Sedesco and Sabancı Holding, won by Demir Sabancı's company” and “Reported breakdown in family governance followed by gradual exit from Sabancı shareholdings”.
3 controversies · 5 sources
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