FT reported Buffett's refusal to transfer $6 billion to the Bill Gates foundation

The largest American investor, multi-billionaire Warren Buffett, announced that he no longer intends to donate to the charitable foundation of Microsoft founder Bill Gates. The British newspaper Financial Times (FT) wrote about this on July 15.

The businessman excluded the Gates Foundation from the list of recipients of his annual donations. Thus, the Gates Charitable Foundation will lose $6 billion, clarifiesГазета.Ru ".

Buffett said that within eight years he plans to direct all funds to four family foundations. According to the publication, Gates' organization was excluded from the list of recipients of donations after a series of revelations about Gates' connections with controversial financier Jeffrey Epstein.

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The 95-year-old Buffett's refusal to cooperate with the Gates Foundation was also reported by The Wall Street Journal on June 30. It was noted that for the first time in 20 years, the investor canceled a regular contribution to the Microsoft founder's charitable foundation, since he appears in the Epstein scandal.

Epstein's files began to be published on December 20 last year, after US President Donald Trump signed a bill on their release on November 19 of the same year. On February 14, former U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi published a list of more than 300 names of famous people who are mentioned in the files on the financier's case. It was clarified that the text contains the names of the 42nd American president Bill Clinton, the 46th head of state Joe Biden, one of the founders of Microsoft, Bill Gates, as well as singer Beyonce.