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Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 8 controversies, including “Appaloosa/Palomino litigation concerning the AT1 write-down and March 2023 statements” and “Investor class actions concerning statements preceding Credit Suisse's collapse”.
8 controversies · 12 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 13 controversies, including “Paper imports through offshore companies: lengthy SPK proceedings, acquittals overturned then time-barred” and “Sale of Doğan media empire to Demirören amid political pressure and media concentration”.
13 controversies · 33 sources1 formal charge
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Criminal complaints under labour law: summons against Premji ultimately quashed” and “Bengaluru land dispute: encroachment allegation dismissed, Premji recognised as a bona fide purchaser”.
7 controversies · 9 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 8 controversies, including “2026 US sanctions against crypto and commercial network attributed to Zanjani” and “2026 British sanctions: asset freeze, travel ban and disqualification as company director”.
8 controversies · 12 sources1 conviction1 formal charge
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 5 controversies, including “Grand Mosque crane collapse: sanctions against Saudi Binladin Group followed by company conviction” and “£1 million donation to Prince Charles's charity: controversy over accepting funds from bin Laden family”.
5 controversies · 10 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 5 controversies, including “Continuing controversy over intra-group transactions and risk of "work funneling" within Netmarble” and “Netmarble sanctioned for misleading loot box probabilities and promotions”.
5 controversies · 9 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 10 controversies, including “Fairshake: Massive funding of pro-crypto campaign to influence regulation” and “Leading the Future: $25 million alongside Andreessen to fund pro-AI, anti-strict-regulation campaign”.
10 controversies · 15 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “The Hague climate ruling requiring a 45% reduction and Shell's decision to appeal” and “Multimillion-euro remuneration and shareholder revolts over his pay package”.
9 controversies · 18 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 14 controversies, including “Court of Appeals upholds conviction and sentence” and “2004–2005: Indicted, then found guilty on all nine federal counts”.
14 controversies · 17 sources1 conviction1 formal charge
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 11 controversies, including “2009–2024: recovery proceedings and restitution of billions to victims” and “2020–2021: compassionate release request for terminal illness denied, followed by death in prison”.
11 controversies · 8 sources1 conviction1 formal charge
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 13 controversies, including “Arbitration appeal trial: prosecution seeks five-year suspended sentence” and “Death before appeal judgment: criminal proceedings extinguished, no appellate criminal conviction of Tapie”.
13 controversies · 14 sources6 convictions7 formal charges
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 12 controversies, including “September 2026: Shotgun taken into Portugal by private jet without required import documentation” and “2015–2023: Guilty plea to tax-related fraud through false statement to HMRC and 17-month suspended sentence”.
12 controversies · 19 sources1 conviction1 formal charge
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 11 controversies, including “Ola Electric faces CCPA/BIS scrutiny following more than 10,000 consumer complaints” and “FIR for abetment following an Ola Electric employee's suicide: disputed harassment allegations”.
11 controversies · 20 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 24 controversies, including “Jeffrey Epstein: approximately 30 Gates/Gates Foundation meetings after 2008 conviction despite internal warnings” and “Epstein and private life: Gates acknowledges several affairs and says Epstein sought to use them to pressure him into resuming contact”.
24 controversies · 45 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 17 controversies, including “2023–2025: revival of Fyre Festival 2 project despite legacy of first festival” and “April 2025: Fyre Festival 2 postponed, tickets refunded and local authorities deny any authorised event exists”.
17 controversies · 9 sources2 convictions2 formal charges
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 6 controversies, including “Flipkart FEMA/FDI proceedings: ED show-cause notice and High Court refusal to halt proceedings” and “ITAT: rejection of non-resident status and India-Singapore tax treaty benefits on sales of Flipkart shares”.
6 controversies · 16 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Rapid Debt-Financed Expansion and Emergency Recapitalisation Before Kjos's Departure” and “Who Was the Real Employer? Pilots' and Cabin Crew Litigation Before Supreme Court”.
9 controversies · 17 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 27 controversies, including “Underwood: class action against Coinbase and Armstrong over alleged sales of unregistered securities” and “Staking: actions by ten state regulators in 2023, some withdrawn while others remained pending in 2026”.
27 controversies · 40 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 11 controversies, including “November 2025–March 2026: Delaware default judgment followed by civil liability of $714.54 million, appeal filed” and “2022–2026: Qatar Holding $150 million loan, personal guarantee and Singapore arbitration with asset freeze”.
11 controversies · 11 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 15 controversies, including “2025–September 2026: ordered to stand trial alongside Rachida Dati over €900,000 in fees; seeks postponement” and “May–September 2023: Ghosn sues Nissan for $1 billion in Lebanon”.
15 controversies · 11 sources2 formal charges
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Telcel sanctioned in 2025 for relative monopolistic practice in SIM card distribution” and “Repair and compensation agreements concerning Line 12”.
7 controversies · 6 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 13 controversies, including “2025: €23 million in 2024 remuneration and approximately €12 million more in planned severance and bonuses” and “2023–2024: Total remuneration rises 56% to approximately €36.5 million”.
13 controversies · 14 sources
Business and billionairesFilm, television and entertainment
Documented profile covering 6 controversies, including “August 2019 / disclosed in 2026: Epstein provides for a $5 million bequest to Caroline Lang” and “3 February 2026: Caroline Lang resigns from the Syndicat de la production indépendante following Prytanee revelations”.
6 controversies · 8 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 8 controversies, including “2010–2016: Investments in funds linked to Cum/Ex transactions; Maschmeyer claims he was deceived and denies knowledge of scheme” and “2005–2014: Approximately €2 million for rights to Gerhard Schröder's memoirs and debate over political influence”.
8 controversies · 11 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 11 controversies, including “New pilots' strike in 2026 over pensions” and “City Airlines and Discover: unions accuse Lufthansa of circumventing collective agreements”.
11 controversies · 26 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “2003 / published in 2026: flirtatious and sexually explicit exchanges with Ghislaine Maxwell while Wasserman was married” and “February–June 2026: political calls for his resignation from LA28, external review, followed by retention and refusal to leave presidency”.
7 controversies · 13 sources
Business and billionairesPolitics and government
Documented profile covering 10 controversies, including “1877 onwards: Imperial ideology and explicit statements of British superiority” and “1890–1902: Advocacy of racially segregated political and territorial order in Cape”.
10 controversies · 9 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 13 controversies, including “France: asset seizures and battle over enforcement of Turkish judgments, with successive conflicting decisions” and “France: approximately $68 billion compensation claim over seizure of former assets dismissed in 2026”.
13 controversies · 22 sources7 convictions7 formal charges
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Retirement and pension entitlement exceeding €54 million, plus special annual allowance” and “Abuse of dominant position in broadband: €151.875 million European fine upheld”.
7 controversies · 13 sources1 formal charge
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 11 controversies, including “8 May 2026: Bombay High Court provisionally stays PMLA attachment order pending appeal” and “3 July 2025: PMLA appeal tribunal confirms attachment and finds prima facie evidence concerning 64 crore scheme”.
11 controversies · 11 sources1 formal charge
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 28 controversies, including “Australia: 524 retail customers misclassified, A$13.1 million in compensation followed by A$10 million penalty in 2026” and “2026 memoir: public feud with Star Xu, reciprocal allegations concerning contracts, honesty and Binance shareholding”.
28 controversies · 47 sources1 conviction1 formal charge
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 5 controversies, including “Luxembourg–Jersey tax structure substantially reducing dividend withholding tax” and “Control structure giving the family greater power than its economic interest”.
5 controversies · 9 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Acknowledged extramarital relationship, child outside marriage and divorce involving almost one trillion won in assets” and “SK Siltron: allegation of appropriation of corporate opportunity, FTC fine subsequently overturned”.
9 controversies · 13 sources2 convictions2 formal charges
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 8 controversies, including “2025–2026 governance battle with Lululemon: proxy campaign, mutual accusations and final agreement” and “Anti-NDP election advertising in British Columbia: administrative fine of 600 dollars”.
8 controversies · 15 sources
Business and billionaires
British property developer, founder of CPC Group.
6 controversies · 8 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 11 controversies, including “Italian 'enhanced repo' transactions: Sewing's role in approval/audit and conflict-of-interest allegations after acquittals” and “2026 searches over suspected money laundering involving 2013–2018 transactions: no documented personal charge against Sewing”.
11 controversies · 24 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 9 controversies, including “Restructuring and job losses despite strong profitability” and “Opaque ownership structure and substantial dividends paid to Epifin”.
9 controversies · 19 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 4 controversies, including “SARS tax dispute concerning personal liability for debt linked to restructuring” and “Steinhoff: chairman and major shareholder's governance responsibility during collapse”.
4 controversies · 8 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 5 controversies, including “Child labour in Hyundai/Kia's Alabama supply chain and US federal action” and “Kona EV fires and massive global recall after first campaign proved ineffective”.
5 controversies · 9 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 5 controversies, including “Long-running dispute over subcontracted workers deemed Hyundai employees by courts” and “Civil liability of 82.6 billion won for improper support to Hyundai Mobis and Glovis”.
5 controversies · 10 sources1 conviction1 formal charge
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 6 controversies, including “PanEuroLife: formally placed under investigation (mise en examen) for aggravated money laundering, followed by complete dismissal (non-lieu)” and “Intervention against Jean-Marie Messier and informal influence over Vivendi”.
6 controversies · 10 sources1 formal charge
SportBusiness and billionaires
Documented profile covering 21 controversies, including “2026: widespread Lazio supporters' boycott against Lotito's presidency” and “2025: Lazio transfer market restrictions for failure to meet financial requirements”.
21 controversies · 38 sources1 conviction4 formal charges
Business and billionairesMedia and journalism
Documented profile covering 11 controversies, including “2013–2019: SEC civil judgment followed by full presidential pardon” and “June 2011: New 42-month sentence for fraud and obstruction”.
11 controversies · 8 sources1 conviction1 formal charge
Science, medicine and healthBusiness and billionaires
Documented profile covering 10 controversies, including “Human Longevity: trade secret theft allegation against his institute, lawsuit dismissed” and “Predicting faces from DNA: paper strongly challenged over allegedly exaggerated conclusions”.
10 controversies · 17 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 8 controversies, including “Removal from Tata Sons and oppression/mismanagement litigation ultimately lost before the Supreme Court” and “Leak of confidential email dated 25 October 2016: NCLT finding cited by Supreme Court linking disclosure to Cyrus Mistry”.
8 controversies · 11 sources
SportBusiness and billionaires
Documented profile covering 16 controversies, including “Power Slap: Launch of slapping sport despite strong medical warnings about brain injuries” and “Francis Ngannou: Contractual split over freedom, healthcare and sponsorship, followed by lasting personal dispute through 2026”.
16 controversies · 29 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 8 controversies, including “Kerviel affair: €4.9 billion loss and control failures” and “Extremely harsh remarks about Jérôme Kerviel, followed by expressions of regret”.
8 controversies · 12 sources1 formal charge
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