The Nigerian billionaire who wants to buy Sheffield United in England has been sued in both the UK and the US for failing to pay his debts.
Dozy Mmobuosi became the preferred buyer of Sheffield United, an English Championship club that was struggling to pay its bills despite being in the promotion zone for a return to the Premier League.
According to reports, one of his senior executives sued the billionaire for not paying about half a year’s salary in a $300,000 Connecticut lawsuit.
Sughdeep Bhogal, an Indian national and former employee of Mmobuosi-owned Tingo Mobile, filed a case against the billionaire in the United Kingdom last year.
According to court documents obtained in Connecticut, Bhogal assisted the firm in raising $400 million.
The lawsuit states:
“For more than six months but was paid almost no wages during that time, and was deprived of all other bonuses and equity promised to him at the start of his employment, representing hundreds of thousands of dollars of wage theft,” Jennie Woltz, his lawyer in the US suit said in a statement.
Mmobuosi accused of trespass
In February last year, a UK court ordered Tingo International Holdings Inc. to pay a British property firm about 87,000 pounds in rent to settle damages for trespass, and continued use and occupation Mmobuosi used as his private residence in the upmarket village of Radlet, northwest London.
In the US court case, the court used a Watford County Court order.