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The 1991 UK inquiries concluded that Robert Maxwell orchestrated large‑scale financial misconduct that left his media group deeply indebted and , with investigators and later DTI reviewers assigning p...
Post‑1991 inquiries exposed that had systematically misappropriated hundreds of millions from pension schemes to prop up his indebted media empire, with investigators later concluding roughly £426–£46...
A November 2024 High Court judgment concluded that operated as a Ponzi scheme and held and several associates civilly liable for massive investor losses, while parallel criminal probes by the Serious ...
The centers on ’s sale of high‑yield “mini‑bonds” to roughly 11,600 retail investors and the firm’s collapse into administration in January 2019, which left investors collectively out of about £237m a...
Robert Maxwell’s death in November 1991 precipitated the rapid unravelling of a publishing empire built on opaque holdings, aggressive borrowing and, as investigators later found, large-scale misappro...