r/news • u/CakeHoleKing • 21h ago

Documents falsified to evade tax on Abramovich's wealth, BBC finds

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c64g1l5389kvo
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u/mountearl 14h ago

I am incredulous that an organisation as large as Deloitte would do something so ridiculous. Their partners in the UK are typically on £1m+ a year, senior partners and leadership on more. I guess it shows that when you are a billionaire, anyone and anything can be bought if the price is right. I would love for the FRC to do something serious about this - but they won't.

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u/Mountsorrel 14h ago

Because that’s what billionaires want them to do for them. If Deloitte won’t cook their books for them, while hiding behind a veneer of respectability, then the billionaire will go to someone else who will. Deloitte will claim it’s rogue employees, the business is protected, then the fall guy “rogue” will get adequately compensated for taking the heat.

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u/petit_cochon 6h ago

They've absolutely fucked their reputation.

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u/ernapfz 14h ago

Quite normal for a Russian oligarch. Move along. No problem here. Slap wrist with a piece of wet spaghetti.

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u/ZestycloseGur8108 10h ago

He is a very slippery Russian Israeli Portuguese billionaire.

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u/wurkdeturk 11h ago

Boiled wet spaghetti or non boiled?

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u/CakeHoleKing 14h ago

Deloitte has new contracts with HMRC.

This gives them DEEP access to the tax systems and needs to be immediately suspended.

They could start deleting or editing figures and evidence.

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u/murdermostsnaky 14h ago

Remember when the media pounded in benefits fraud seemingly every day, then a journalist published documents that showed tax fraud by the rich dwarfed those losses then said journalist died in a most obvious assassination?

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u/dontknow16775 14h ago

Who was that journalist?

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u/murdermostsnaky 13h ago

Daphne Anne Caruana Galizia was who I was thinking of. A car bomb was so obvious it had to be a warning

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u/tremere110 11h ago

Wasn't the millionaire (billionaire with his secret assets) who ordered the hit recently acquitted? Yorgen Fenech is his name.

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u/H0vis 12h ago

The story here is that Deloitte were heavily involved in a crime worth millions of pounds. And nothing will happen.

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u/Sedert1882 5h ago

I'm not surprised at all. How the hell do billionaires just get richer - by cheating the tax system using big accountancy firms like Deloitte to hide their wealth. It's been done like this since the Dead Sea was only feeling ill.

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u/CakeHoleKing 3h ago

And having corrupt leaders like boris johnson, truss, sunak, starmer and burnham that take literal cash bribes to suppress investigations and the public just doesn't care.

Burnham for example has told HMRC NOT to investigate several billionaires. Direct instructions from HE WHO MUST BE OBEYED, and senior civil servants have been told if they go public with this, they will be "punished".

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u/bluereddit2 10h ago

Nothing to see here. Move along.

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u/ScottOld 5h ago

He had a snazzy dreamliner jet in dubai.. maybe clam that

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u/Yelworc0242 6h ago

scumbags gonna scumbag..

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u/Howitzer1967 3h ago

Shocked Pikachu meme ahoy!

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u/opajamashimasuuu 42m ago

"It's a big club and you ain't in it"

Same old, same old…

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u/enpoopification_of_R 13h ago

Interestingly -ovitch / -ovich is a common surname ending that means "son of" like -son / -sson, bin, Mac- etc.

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u/Weshtonio 6h ago

Is your name whorovich ?