>>13386923The guy has repeating patterns of shady business. All of his businesses are doing tax evasion, tax fraud or other non-sense.
The Virgin group is really just a semi-legal money launder scheme to get money into the Virgin Isles and other territories, for Richard and his rich friends. All of the Virgin brand companies are mediocre imitations trying to enter industries where they have no competitive edge.
His spaceflight stuff is probably just a very ambitious version of this. It will probably be mostly used to cut business deals in space outside of the jurisdiction of any country. Of course there's also the occasional egotistical billionaire who wants to irresponsibly waste money on going to space, but you can't run a profitable business off that.
