Thank you for Gobbles from LFW for researching this, I was going to post something similar on here yesterday but never got around to it. With more posters on WATRB taking the moral highground than any other MB in their witch hunt of Flavio its about time we balanced the argument on here. Oh and mods please don't take this down in because of your childish feud with LFW posters....
Is Mittal a "fit and proper person"?
Seeing as there has been so much hot air and hand-wringing about Briatore supposedly telling someone to crash one of the world's safest cars into a wall (in the most morally bankrupt sport there is) and the subsequent delight from some that this could lead to Lakshmi Mittal taking over, perhaps some should look at this section on his wikipedia page and ask, is Briatore so bad?
Slave-labour allegations
Employees of Mittal have accused him of "slave labour" conditions after multiple fatalities in his mines During December 2004, twenty-three miners died in explosions in his mines in Kazakhstan caused by faulty gas detectors.
The Mittal Affair: "Cash for Influence"
Main article: Mittal Affair
Controversy erupted in 2002 as Plaid MP Adam Price exposed the link between UK prime minister Tony Blair and Mittal in the Mittal Affair, also known as 'Garbagegate' or Cash for Influence. Mittal's LNM steel company, registered in the Dutch Antilles and maintaining less than 1% of its 100,000 plus workforce in the UK, sought Blair's aid in its bid to purchase Romania's state steel industry.
The letter from Blair to the Romanian government, a copy of which Price was able to obtain, hinted that the privatisation of the firm and sale to Mittal might help smooth the way for Romania's entry into the European Union.
The letter had a passage in it removed just prior to Blair's signing of it, describing Mittal as "a friend."
Environmental damage
Lakshmi Mittal purchased the Irish Steel plant based in Cork from the Government for a nominal fee of £1. Three years later in 2001, it was closed, leaving 400 people redundant. Subsequent environmental issues at the site have been a cause for criticism. The Government tried to sue in the High Court to have him pay for the clean-up of Cork Harbour but failed. The clean up was expected to cost €70m.
And while we are at it, let's check out the past of Roman Abramovich.
Personally I don't have a problem with either of them.
People have short memories I think we should be supporting Flavio not hunting him down like a crazed mob, I have found the conduct of some of our supporters on this MB in particular nothing short of a joke with regards to this matter!
Is Mittal a "fit and proper person"?
Seeing as there has been so much hot air and hand-wringing about Briatore supposedly telling someone to crash one of the world's safest cars into a wall (in the most morally bankrupt sport there is) and the subsequent delight from some that this could lead to Lakshmi Mittal taking over, perhaps some should look at this section on his wikipedia page and ask, is Briatore so bad?
Slave-labour allegations
Employees of Mittal have accused him of "slave labour" conditions after multiple fatalities in his mines During December 2004, twenty-three miners died in explosions in his mines in Kazakhstan caused by faulty gas detectors.
The Mittal Affair: "Cash for Influence"
Main article: Mittal Affair
Controversy erupted in 2002 as Plaid MP Adam Price exposed the link between UK prime minister Tony Blair and Mittal in the Mittal Affair, also known as 'Garbagegate' or Cash for Influence. Mittal's LNM steel company, registered in the Dutch Antilles and maintaining less than 1% of its 100,000 plus workforce in the UK, sought Blair's aid in its bid to purchase Romania's state steel industry.
The letter from Blair to the Romanian government, a copy of which Price was able to obtain, hinted that the privatisation of the firm and sale to Mittal might help smooth the way for Romania's entry into the European Union.
The letter had a passage in it removed just prior to Blair's signing of it, describing Mittal as "a friend."
Environmental damage
Lakshmi Mittal purchased the Irish Steel plant based in Cork from the Government for a nominal fee of £1. Three years later in 2001, it was closed, leaving 400 people redundant. Subsequent environmental issues at the site have been a cause for criticism. The Government tried to sue in the High Court to have him pay for the clean-up of Cork Harbour but failed. The clean up was expected to cost €70m.
And while we are at it, let's check out the past of Roman Abramovich.
Personally I don't have a problem with either of them.
People have short memories I think we should be supporting Flavio not hunting him down like a crazed mob, I have found the conduct of some of our supporters on this MB in particular nothing short of a joke with regards to this matter!
:red_heart::red_heart::red_heart::money:
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