Media Sport Investment

Media Sport Investment
Founded	2004
Defunct	2008
Fate	Dissolved
Key people	Kia Joorabchian

Media Sport Investment Limited (MSI) was a London-based international investment fund that was headed by the Iranian-born, British-educated, businessman Kia Joorabchian. It has attracted considerable attention for its partnership between 2004 and 2007 of Corinthians football club in Brazil, and for its involvement in the 'third-party' ownership of players, notably the Argentinian forward Carlos Tevez.

The source of the money behind MSI was a subject of considerable speculation. Roman Abramovich, owner of Chelsea, was at one time rumored to own a 15% share in the group, while Joorabchian was persistently linked to the oligarch Boris Berezovsky and his associate Badri Patarkatsishvili.^[2]^[3]

^ "DueDil".
^ "Corinthians receive their own benefactor", The Guardian, 10 December 2004. Retrieved 2010-08-03
^ Cobain, Ian, Kelso, Paul and Phillips, Tom. "The boys from Argentina -via Brazil and secretive offshore finance company", The Guardian 14 September 2006. Retrieved 2010-07-25.

[1] "DueDil".

[Corinthians_receive_their_own_benefactor-2] "Corinthians receive their own benefactor", The Guardian, 10 December 2004. Retrieved 2010-08-03

[Boys_from_Argentina-3] Cobain, Ian, Kelso, Paul and Phillips, Tom. "The boys from Argentina -via Brazil and secretive offshore finance company", The Guardian 14 September 2006. Retrieved 2010-07-25.

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