Africa, United Kingdom
Defence magnate Ichikowitz launches government security consulting firm

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
TD International, Mandaura, Control Risks, Bernard Emié

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: every Wednesday, we report on events big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community.

WashingtonFormer CIA officers join forces at TDI

ParisOSINTracker offered via Mandaura

DubaiTycoon Ivor Ichikowitz's ex-business partner at Control Risks

ParisEx-foreign intelligence head Bernard Émié lunches at the Elysée

Spotlight | United States
Studebaker-Executive Outcomes forge US-South African alliance to rival Russia's Wagner

South African financier Heine van Niekerk and African private military veteran Eeben Barlow are constructing a response to Russian hybrid warfare operators in Africa in partnership with the US firm Studebaker, which employs former Pentagon and CIA officers.

United Kingdom
Risk Advisory Group attempts Dragonfly metamorphosis

The Risk Advisory Group (TRAG)'s new service DragonFly is a bid to adapt to a changing marketplace and an industry that has been severely hit by the Covid-19 pandemic.

United Kingdom
Richard Rands' Acumen takes hold in Mozambique

British strategic development advisor and specialist in Africa and the Middle East, Richard Rands, recently founded in his own advisory, Acumen Intelligent Consulting.

Libya, Russia
Moscow's Pantsir deployed to help Haftar

Russia has stepped up its military involvement in support of Libya's General Khalifa Haftar. Intelligence Online investigates the heavy deployment.

United Kingdom
Risk Advisory Group open to new shareholder

With the firm in good financial form, Risk Advisory Group's (RAG) may soon open its capital to new investors. Bill [...]

United Kingdom
Tellus Matrix, cyber-alliance of church and military

According to our sources, the former Bishop of London, Lord Richard Chartres has joined Tellus Matrix, a risk management and [...]

Spotlight | UAE
Erik Prince's private squadron in Abu Dhabi

Since selling his private security company Blackwater in 2011, former Navy Seal Erik Prince has been developing a new business venture, this time in the aeronautics field. Behind a series of FVCs the world's best-known private security businessman has built [.

United Kingdom
Risk Advisory Group

Risk Advisory Group, the British corporate intelligence and security firm, [...]

Dyck Advisory Group scales down activities but keeps its contract

Although it has put its activities on hold in recent months, the Dyck Advisory Group retains its contract to mentor the police in the face of the Cabo Delgado uprising.

Burnham Global trains Nyusi's troops to operate Paramount armoured vehicles

Via the consultancy Burnham Global, the South African defence magnate Ivor Ichikowitz is instructing Mozambican soldiers in how to operate armoured vehicles supplied by his own firm Paramount.

Lionel Dyck's private army struggles in Cabo Delgado despite Panzer Logistics and STTEP reinforcements

President Filipe Nyusi is unhappy with the approach to containing the insurrection in Cabo Delgado proposed by Dyck Advisory Group and its subcontractors, the arms trader Panzer Logistics and the private security firm STTEP International.