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Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 2 controversies, including “Mashreqbank: $100 million settlement over breaches of US sanctions against Sudan” and “Mashreqbank: $40 million settlement over AML and sanctions compliance deficiencies”.
2 controversies · 3 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 8 controversies, including “Cement: domestic oligopoly and pricing power of major producers” and “Rivalry with Dangote: public accusations of manipulating investigations, expressly denied”.
8 controversies · 12 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “2015: GPA audit of payments to Antonio Palocci and Márcio Thomaz Bastos law firm during Diniz era” and “2013: simultaneous chairmanship of GPA and BRF challenged over conflict of interest; further Casino arbitration request”.
7 controversies · 11 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 18 controversies, including “SOLFL in El Portal: demolition of 70-year-old church and strong local opposition to school project” and “WeWork files for bankruptcy then eliminates nearly $4 billion in debt: lasting consequence of Neumann-era expansion”.
18 controversies · 30 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 5 controversies, including “Section 59: findings of racially discriminatory effects in healthcare provider monitoring systems” and “Competition Commission investigation into alleged collusion among major insurers”.
5 controversies · 10 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 5 controversies, including “Satellite spectrum: Jio lobbying for auctions against Starlink, a position ultimately rejected by the government” and “Data and AI: Akash Ambani advocates data localisation in India amid legal and commercial criticism”.
5 controversies · 12 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Columbia Pictures acquisition: bidding war, Warner litigation and subsequent $2.7 billion write-down” and “Call for a "new Japanese capitalism": less focus on market share, better wages and dividends”.
9 controversies · 15 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 14 controversies, including “Toyota Industries privatisation: challenged valuation, transparency and potential benefit to Toyoda family” and “¥5.5 billion derivative action against Akio Toyoda and four directors over Daihatsu oversight”.
14 controversies · 23 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 6 controversies, including “Swiss assets: freezes and money laundering investigation ultimately closed without charges in 2022” and “EU sanctions and asset freeze: ten years of litigation followed by annulment/withdrawal of the measures”.
6 controversies · 13 sources1 conviction3 formal charges
Business and billionairesPolitics and government
Documented profile covering 11 controversies, including “Second copyright infringement judgment concerning his book on René Bousquet” and “Oléron Participations: civil judgment against company founded by Minc and Bergé for 'fraudulent sale'”.
11 controversies · 20 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 10 controversies, including “Final remuneration reduced after governance review, followed by payment of final bonus” and “Tickets sold for already cancelled flights: Qantas admits misleading consumers and receives 100 million penalty”.
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 4 controversies, including “Sale of Quick to Caisse des dépôts: suspicions of overvaluation and alleged GDF–Suez connection; Belgian criminal investigation in Charleroi concluded with case dismissed” and “Control of CLT/RTL: confrontation with Havas over advertising sales and concentration of broadcasting power”.
4 controversies · 11 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 14 controversies, including “2022–2026: securities and derivative litigation naming Karp and other executives” and “2023–2026: £330 million NHS contract, health data concerns and public distrust”.
14 controversies · 22 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 14 controversies, including “June 2026: CFTC order — permanent antifraud injunction and permanent trading and registration ban” and “April–July 2026: FTC settlement — $10 million payable and ban on marketing certain financial asset services”.
14 controversies · 11 sources1 conviction1 formal charge
Business and billionaires
Businessman, former KGB officer and media investor.
7 controversies · 10 sources1 conviction1 formal charge
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 8 controversies, including “Carrefour in Israel: boycott calls, settlement-related allegations and repeated denials by Bompard” and “Senate hearing on supermarket margins and defence of Carrefour's business model”.
8 controversies · 12 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 8 controversies, including “Delhi liquor policy case: money laundering allegations and prolonged licence refusal” and “Indian tax reassessment exceeding $300 million over import valuations”.
8 controversies · 9 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 10 controversies, including “Incomplete withdrawal from Russia and continued involuntary stake in joint venture” and “New Belgian investigation into possible abuse of dominant position”.
10 controversies · 20 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 11 controversies, including “Death before appeal judgment in main trial: Criminal proceedings terminated” and “Conviction for using a forged passport while a fugitive”.
11 controversies · 9 sources3 convictions3 formal charges
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 17 controversies, including “Public "match-fixing" allegations against Galatasaray” and “2025 sanction for damaging football's reputation, reduced from 45 to 22 days on appeal”.
17 controversies · 21 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 14 controversies, including “2026: Fifth Circuit upholds SEC civil judgment” and “2026: Supreme Court petition against civil judgment still pending as of 13 September”.
14 controversies · 11 sources1 conviction1 formal charge
Business and billionairesMonarchies and royal families
Documented profile covering 5 controversies, including “Detention at the Ritz-Carlton and financial settlement during anti-corruption campaign” and “Call to end ban on women driving, challenging Saudi conservatives”.
5 controversies · 9 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 8 controversies, including “Uyghur forced labour: French complaints against Inditex ultimately declared inadmissible” and “Zara pay disputes: 2022 strike followed by European mobilisation for profit-sharing in 2025”.
8 controversies · 18 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 5 controversies, including “Statements opposing rapid phase-out of oil and gas, strongly contested by climate advocates” and “BlackRock: pension fund opposes his board election over conflicts of interest, climate and human rights”.
5 controversies · 9 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Announced departure as Mobileye CEO amid weak forecasts and falling share price” and “One Zero: substantial accumulated losses and fundraising at disputed valuation”.
7 controversies · 15 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 10 controversies, including “Shareholder opposition to board remuneration policy and Ana Botín's pay” and “Santander data breach affecting customers and employees in Spain, Chile and Uruguay”.
10 controversies · 18 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 5 controversies, including “EPC Maroc versus Foncière Iskane: dispossession allegations and naming of the Sefrioui family” and “Prestigia in Bouskoura: purchasers' associations denounce unilateral cancellations and resales”.
5 controversies · 5 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “2026: summoned as witness in Banco Master investigation after BTG due diligence reportedly identified a potentially massive shortfall” and “2019: fresh searches in investigation into sale of Petrobras's African assets to BTG”.
9 controversies · 8 sources1 formal charge
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 5 controversies, including “SKIDATA: delays to US projects and restructuring affecting approximately 10% of positions” and “2017–2018 restructuring: major cost reductions and closure of an R&D site in France”.
5 controversies · 8 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 12 controversies, including “Sale of Corsican villa after Omar Bongo's death and belated settlement of debts” and “€2 million fine remained unpaid for years and expulsion from Legion of Honour”.
12 controversies · 12 sources1 conviction1 formal charge
SportBusiness and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “2025: negotiated criminal settlement in Prisma case — twenty-month suspended sentence” and “2023–2024: 'manovra stipendi', agent relations and partnerships — ban reduced to ten months”.
7 controversies · 11 sources1 conviction1 formal charge
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 12 controversies, including “2004–2006: Cooperates with Enron Task Force, then receives reduced six-year sentence” and “14 January 2004: Guilty plea to two securities fraud and wire fraud conspiracy counts”.
12 controversies · 5 sources1 conviction1 formal charge
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Yindjibarndi / Solomon Hub: mining without agreement, record compensation of approximately 150 million and appeals pending” and “Green hydrogen: dramatic scaling back of ambitions and approximately 700 job cuts”.
7 controversies · 9 sources
Business and billionaires
Indian-British industrialist, founder of Vedanta Resources.
10 controversies · 18 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 13 controversies, including “2026: further ED asset freezes and seizures” and “2026: SEBI rejects settlement application in new Reliance Infrastructure case”.
13 controversies · 12 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Formally placed under investigation for presenting inaccurate accounts and disseminating false information in UraMin accounting case” and “New formal investigation in 2024 for obstructing auditors in UraMin case”.
9 controversies · 10 sources1 formal charge
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 5 controversies, including “Prodea Systems: claim for unpaid wages and expenses; claims against Ansari personally dismissed” and “2017 Oscars: delivers Asghar Farhadi's anti-"travel ban" message, then has attire censored in Iran”.
5 controversies · 8 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 6 controversies, including “Decades of political donations to both major parties and debate over billionaires' access to decision-makers” and “Recordings of networking strategy: Giuliani, Prince Charles and former prime ministers paid”.
6 controversies · 11 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 4 controversies, including “Personal tensions within Arnault family over succession” and “Loro Piana placed under judicial administration in Italy over inadequate oversight of subcontractors exploiting workers”.
4 controversies · 8 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 5 controversies, including “2017: Conviction for intentional bankruptcy offences and false sworn declaration after Schlecker collapse” and “2009–2010: Use of temporary employment company Meniar and wage-dumping allegations after store closures”.
5 controversies · 8 sources2 convictions2 formal charges
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 6 controversies, including “Långvik Property Case: Suspected Aiding and Abetting Aggravated Embezzlement, Without Charges” and “Debate over Dividend Taxation Through Herlin's Holding Companies”.
6 controversies · 12 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 8 controversies, including “Vivendi split challenged by minority shareholders amid legal battle over Bolloré control” and “Editis: costly acquisition followed by substantial impairment before resale”.
8 controversies · 14 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 11 controversies, including “Mazars formally placed under investigation in connection with Lagardère case” and “Formally placed under investigation for misuse of corporate assets, abuse of power, vote buying, misleading information and failure to file accounts”.
11 controversies · 11 sources1 formal charge
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 14 controversies, including “Referred for trial for two murders, complicity in premeditated murder and attempted murder” and “Implicated in murder of Samy Souied”.
14 controversies · 13 sources2 convictions4 formal charges
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 5 controversies, including “Exceptional retention agreement equivalent to ten years of fixed salary” and “Combining the roles of board chairman and chief executive”.
5 controversies · 12 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 10 controversies, including “2016: Compensation payments and costs, transfer to Turkey and release on probation” and “August 2012: Convicted of 10 theft counts totalling approximately £29 million, acquitted of three”.
10 controversies · 6 sources1 conviction1 formal charge
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