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Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Charges in the Casinos Austria / Peter Sidlo affair” and “Further £1 million UK sanction against Greentube for repeated failings”.
7 controversies · 12 sources1 formal charge
Politics and governmentBusiness and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Murder of journalist Héctor Félix Miranda by Agua Caliente security personnel and persistent suspicions concerning Hank Rhon” and “Grupo Caliente tax audit and preventive seizure of 208 gaming machines”.
7 controversies · 11 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Severance and departure settlement amounting to tens of millions of euros” and “Abrupt replacement as Telefónica chairman amid shareholder restructuring and weak share performance”.
7 controversies · 13 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “MapleStory: probability crisis, FTC investigation and summons for Kim to appear as parliamentary witness” and “2019 complaint alleging 1.566 trillion won in tax evasion involving NXC and Neople”.
7 controversies · 16 sources1 formal charge
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Family inheritance and LG control lawsuit: first-instance victory for Koo, followed by appeal” and “Inheritance tax dispute over valuation of LG estate, lost at first instance”.
7 controversies · 11 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “2014–2018: Deportation order to Ghana and legal battle despite having spent most of his life in United Kingdom” and “September–October 2018: Last-minute reprieve followed by further unsuccessful legal challenge”.
7 controversies · 6 sources1 conviction1 formal charge
Business and billionaires
Steel industrialist and executive chairman of ArcelorMittal.
7 controversies · 14 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 “Africa Israel's second debt restructuring, threat of bondholder litigation and Leviev's loss of control”.
7 controversies · 16 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Airbus sales in Egypt: Documents on secret commissions during period when Gallois led EADS” and “Gallois competitiveness report: Proposal for competitiveness shock and debate over CICE”.
7 controversies · 14 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “50-million civil action against broker: claim dismissed by London High Court” and “Alitalia: major losses and restructuring during his chairmanship, followed by departure in 2017”.
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 7 controversies, including “Large-scale development in Durbuy: environmental, tourism and residents' opposition to Coucke group projects” and “KV Oostende bankruptcy and dispute over stadium ownership and termination of the lease”.
7 controversies · 15 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Golden Power and Sinochem: 2023–2026 governance conflict over Chinese influence at Pirelli” and “Kroll affair: first-instance conviction, several acquittals and final acquittal by Court of Cassation”.
7 controversies · 14 sources1 formal charge
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “2019–2026: persistent challenge to ruling that Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide and repeated calls for new investigation” and “2026: potential $10 million bequest revealed in Jeffrey Epstein's 1953 Trust”.
7 controversies · 16 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Family dispute over Francis Bouygues's estate” and “Disposal of Alstom stake at centre of debate over French industrial sovereignty”.
7 controversies · 17 sources1 formal charge
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “"Kindergarten Is Too Late": theory of the first three years and enduring early education controversy” and “Japanese televisions in the United States: dumping and antitrust conspiracy allegations against Sony”.
7 controversies · 14 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “2025–2026: Class and derivative actions challenging communications about Bitcoin strategy, subsequently voluntarily withdrawn” and “2024–2025: Saylor controls majority of Strategy voting rights despite much smaller economic stake”.
7 controversies · 11 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Insider-trading investigation after share sales: Case closed without further action” and “BNP Paribas transactions with countries subject to US sanctions”.
7 controversies · 12 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “MIDROC / Lega Dembi mine: licence suspended following pollution-related protests” and “Preem Lysekil: refinery expansion opposed over climate impact, then abandoned”.
7 controversies · 17 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “AI171: challenge to settlement agreements requiring waiver of legal claims before the investigation concludes” and “Tata Sons–Tata Trusts tensions and decision to leave the chairmanship at the end of his term”.
7 controversies · 11 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Indian AI vision described as 'outdated' by an industry executive” and “Examinations task force: appointment at the centre of controversy over overlapping reforms and political damage control”.
7 controversies · 11 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Repeated advocacy of a 70-hour working week and rejection of work-life balance” and “Refusal to participate in Karnataka's caste survey”.
7 controversies · 11 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “2023: Forfeiture of $570,557.14 in substitute assets” and “2020: Sentence limited to time served and one year of home confinement, notably due to cooperation”.
7 controversies · 8 sources1 conviction1 formal charge
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “December 1995–1999: Guilty pleas, six-and-a-half-year sentence, imprisonment and early release” and “1992–1995: Combining trading and back-office duties enables concealment”.
7 controversies · 4 sources1 conviction1 formal charge
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Reliance Foundation Hospital Trust: refusal and subsequent judicial restoration of charitable tax registration” and “State-funded security protection: recurring debate over privileges granted to the Ambani family”.
7 controversies · 13 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Personal bank debts followed by insolvency order in 2026” and “Final conviction for manipulation of IDB share price around 2012 share offering”.
7 controversies · 17 sources1 conviction1 formal charge
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Challenges in Canada over production order targeting OVHcloud” and “Strasbourg SBG2 data centre fire, data losses and judgment against OVHcloud”.
7 controversies · 14 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Istanbul Biennial: Ömer Koç publicly describes situation in Gaza as "genocide"” and “Departure from Tofaş board following competition commitments imposed in Stellantis transaction”.
7 controversies · 14 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Disclosed political party funding by companies linked to Motsepe” and “CAF support for Gianni Infantino during 2026 FIFA governance crisis”.
7 controversies · 17 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Bourse Direct: further AMF fine of €800,000 for reporting and market abuse surveillance failures” and “Compagnie Financière Tradition: repeated US regulatory sanctions against group entities”.
7 controversies · 13 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Bertelli recounts smashing badly parked cars' headlights with a hammer” and “Prada tax investigation: settlement of hundreds of millions and request to close case against Bertelli”.
7 controversies · 9 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “HMRC winding-up petition against Jessops for unpaid taxes, subsequently withdrawn” and “Acu Seeds / ME-CFS controversy on Dragons' Den”.
7 controversies · 10 sources
Business and billionairesPolitics and government
British businessman, former owner of BHS and controlling figure of Arcadia Group.
7 controversies · 14 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “'Order before 23:59, delivered tomorrow' promise repeatedly found misleading” and “Information on statutory warranty found inaccurate or incomplete”.
7 controversies · 11 sources
Media and journalismBusiness and billionaires
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
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “AI Act and Data Act: Busch threatens to prioritise United States for industrial AI investments” and “Shareholders reject Siemens proposal to extend virtual-only general meetings”.
7 controversies · 18 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “January 2025: full and unconditional federal presidential pardon” and “2013: separate Maryland indictment for attempted murder of witness and murder-for-hire”.
7 controversies · 9 sources1 conviction2 formal charges
Business and billionairesFilm, television and entertainment
Producer, manager and founder of 19 Entertainment / XIX Entertainment.
7 controversies · 13 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Banijay questioned in National Assembly about margins and remuneration in public broadcasting” and “Conviction for abuse of vulnerability in Bettencourt affair following €143.7 million in financing”.
7 controversies · 14 sources1 conviction1 formal charge
Business and billionairesPolitics and government
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Public warning to Elon Musk ahead of Donald Trump interview disavowed by Commission” and “Abrupt resignation from European Commission and allegation of 'questionable governance' against Ursula von der Leyen”.
7 controversies · 10 sources
Business and billionaires
Founder and chairman of JD Wetherspoon.
7 controversies · 10 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Infina Finance: 131 crore rupees in electoral bonds according to accounts, including 60 crore identifiable in SBI/ECI data” and “RBI: severe restrictions on Kotak Mahindra Bank following IT deficiencies observed in 2022–2023”.
7 controversies · 15 sources
MusicBusiness and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “2018–2026: prolonged losses and financing of fashion group, followed by turnaround and first operating profit” and “2026: public rift with Brooklyn Beckham and allegations concerning family control, brand and wedding”.
7 controversies · 13 sources
Business and billionaires
Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “Vivendi split challenged by minority shareholders as means of strengthening Bolloré control” and “Further concentration of Havas ownership around Bolloré family after split”.
7 controversies · 12 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 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 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 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
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