They run their football clubs as businesses
Usmanov has a different agenda
The real issue is that the benefits that they may seek to get are unlikely to show up on a surface level profit and loss account. I know there was the lad who going on about my conspiracy theories, which I suppose he's completely entitled to say, I would counter though and say it's in my view extremely naive to assume some wealthy individuals (indeed most wealthy individuals) haven't got their fingers in all sorts of pies many of which are not really designed to be for public consumption.
Asking someone to prove this is very difficult. Firstly because their intention is to avoid ever having most of the transactions they have known about but also because if I knew (which I don't) it would be really stupid for me to lift the lid all over a football forum. At best you'd open yourself up to a whole world of litigation or at worst there may be other methods sought to prevent such information being made publicly available.
I mean even a cursory glance at just a fraction of the stuff in the panama papers (I believe the journalist who disclosed that passed away shortly after it's release) is very interesting when you look at half the stuff wealthy people are involved in. It doesn't fit the dominant narrative built around wealthy people, that essentially they are thoroughly honest, stand up citizens who make their money through hard work, while you have evil criminals in another category and neither the two shall meet. From my experience of life, things are rarely black and white, and within the grey areas things cross over.
None of this is conclusive proof of anything, and is really me just throwing out a particular hypothetical set of circumstances. It is also important to say that none of this proves anything about anyone (beyond what has been disclosed in leaks such as the Panama papers). However if you accept as I do that there are links between the legit economy and the "dark economy" then you would also have to accept that those links are in all likelihood facilitated and moulded by certain individuals who have credibility in each sector (you can also throw in the state to this as well). If an individual were able to liaise between individuals who's creation of wealth was prohibited, sections of the state who are aware of it but wish to control it but behind closed door, and more orthodox individuals who want to make money in a more orthodox way then they would be a very powerful individual. It's also fair to say, many of their business dealings would not make sense if you viewed them from the vantage point of comparing how an orthodox business person would operate.
I think it's an open secret that the US drugs squad has ongoing dialogue with Mexican cartels. They made a massive hollywood blockbuster showing this to be the case. In the film they take out 1 cartel, to work with another, on the basis that you can't eliminate things, but you can regulate them. If thats your approach you need fixers. The fixers in the middle may take decisions that if viewed in the abstract don't look sensible business decisions.
We know that Russia, China and to a degree the Arab states are looking to "sports wash" money. We have seen Saudi consortiums buying into Sheffield United, probably Newcastle and Leeds. The days are gone when they try to "do a City" but they will happily take shares, control and influence in key sporting institutions. My view is that is one of the key goals in this. Soft power, a top PL club, access to a prime location UK UNESCO location. In such a scenario a figure like Usmanov or Moshiri are just adept middle men for broader consortiums. We know this has happened already with the Liver Building, which was purchased from a company represented by Moshiri (though I should say there's no suggestion of anything untoward from them).
For Everton we are a means to an ends. I think it's helped that they both love football. It's also helped that they are traders and can see lots of value being added. I get the sense of very little urgency that the club is losing lots of money. In a scenario that might resemble anything of the above, that soft power is the key, Everton are a useful vehicle for that. Why do people think Russian oligarchs bought up half of London's wealthy properties to leave many of them empty? Why are they allegedly donating obscene amounts of money to the Conservative Party? They don't expect a return on that narrow investment, in a simple profit loss manner. There is a much bigger game at play.
Of course thats just one potential scenario. And it could be that Moshiri's spending on Everton is nothing like the above whatsoever. It could be that Usmanov feels Everton's training ground is actually worth 12m a year in sponsorship to his business. People have to make their own minds up, there's not really a right or wrong answer. I am a natural cynic but if people are less cynical than me, good for them.