Pro-Brexit British billionaire buys Swiss football club Lausanne
by Adam Vaughan from on (#37VK7)
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Ineos, the petrochemicals company founded by billionaire Brexit backer Jim Ratcliffe, has announced plans to buy a Swiss football club, the latest in a spree of seemingly unconnected acquisitions.
The privately owned firm said it was buying FC Lausanne-Sport, which plays in Switzerland's top football league, to build on existing links it had forged with teams near its offices in Lausanne and the Swiss canton of Vaud.
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