[Archived] We're unlucky but not alone

[john browning]

Here's ownership profiles of Conference clubs taken from The Guardian's recent coverage at

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/may/22/club-by-club-guide-championship-finances-2012-2013 and http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/may/22/championship-club-accounts-profit-loss-and-the-wage-bill

· Owned by Cayman Islands company Birmingham International Holdings plc. Convicted money launderer Carson Yeung owns 15% of that company

· 76% owned by local businessman Owen Oyston; 20% by Latvian banker Valeri Belokon

· Owned by the Isle of Man businessman Edwin Davies via Fildraw private trust company, registered in Bermuda.

· Owned by Tony Bloom, a professional gambler based in Brighton.

· Owned by local and UK-based businessmen Mike Garlick: 31.21%, John Banaszkiewicz: 26.48%, Brendan Flood: 15.22%, other directors: 18.95%

· Largest shareholder is Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Vincent Tan Chee Yioun, who owns 51%.

· Owned by Belgian businessman Roland Ducatelet via his company, Staprix NV, registered in Belgium.

· Owned by a US consortium whose principle shareholders are Andy Appleby, Bill Luby, Jeff Mallett, Tom Ricketts, Tom Vertin and W. Brett Wilson.

· 100% owned by local greetings card businessman Dean Hoyle.

· 85% owned by Gulf Finance House, an investment bank in Bahrain; now sold to Italian-American based agriculture magnate Massimo Cellino. The league is awaiting the written ruling of an Italian court which has found Cellino guilty of tax evasion, to see if he did so dishonestly.

· 100% owned by King Power International, registered in Thailand, owned by Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha

· 75% owned by a company controlled by local businessman, Steve Gibson.

· 70.39% owned by Chestnut Hill Ventures LLC, a US company controlled by John G Berylson, Richard A Smith, a trustee of the Philip Smith Deceased Will Trust

· Owned by the Kuwaiti businessmen Fawaz Al Hasawi, and Abdulaziz Mubarak Al Hasawi.

· 100% owned by US company UK Football Investments LLC, which is owned by a trust for the benefit of Milan Mandaric and family

· Owned by Gianpaolo Pozzo, who also owns Udinese, via Hornets Management Sarl, registered in the tax haven of Luxembourg.

· Owned by a Steve Morgan family trust, via a company registered in the tax haven of Guernsey.

John Browning

[tomphil]

There has to be some big tax / converting / laundering / hiding / bleeding ...money advantages to be had by owning British clubs hidden away somewhere in the red tape. Not many just seem to be rich peoples play things.

[yoda]

Northampton fans be afraid !

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/33258112

very afraid !