Corporate Intelligence

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
UN crisis communications, changes at Nardello Dubai, EPEE in Niger

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

StockholmSoftware firm lands UN crisis communications contract

DubaiNardello exec step down

France/NigerOrano and EPEE talks on closing uranium mines security contract underway

China, France, Ukraine
World Uyghur Congress sues Huawei, Hikvision and Dahua

The international advocacy group for the Uyghur people has filed suit in Paris against the French branches of three Chinese video surveillance giants. Working with the WUC is a little-known Ukrainian organisation.

United Kingdom
The changing face of private intelligence, part 2: The clampdown on state clients

In light of the British government's heightened vigilance, private intelligence providers are withdrawing from the hazardous world of litigation support to former Soviet states. But the media fallout from these legal battles is still being felt today.

United Kingdom
The changing face of private intelligence, part 1: Final chapter closes on oligarchs' battles

Years of sanctions against Russian oligarchs Petr Aven, Oleg Deripaska, Mikhail Fridman and others, all of whom were avid users of British private detectives, along with the death of several prominent Kazakh clients, is forcing London's private intelligence community to rethink its business model.

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
Field Intelligence moves beyond ESG, ADIT's soirées, Burford's loss

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

LondonField Intelligence expands range of services

Warsaw/ParisADIT's busy events schedule

Dubai/LondonVeteran sleuth Daniel Hall leaves Burford Capital

UAE
Leading consultancies concerned by UAE military's 'insourcing' shift

Leading international consultancy groups are worried about the UAE's shift towards local providers to carry out training missions for its military.

France
Kidnappings and burglaries put LVMH and other firms' security chiefs' on high alert

Recent attacks on CEOs and their families are troubling the security managers of some of France's leading companies, mainly in the luxury sector. Fears that these could increasingly be the target of organised crime are fuelling concerns, against a backdrop of rising social discontent in the country.

Ukraine
US partner of French consultant in Ukraine's biggest Russian spy case has Israel intelligence ties

Ukrainian spymaster's treason and international connections - part 4. In Ukraine's most high-profile case of spying for Russia, the former head of domestic intelligence in Crimea, Oleh Kulinich, is due to stand trial in Kyiv for being a Kremlin mole.

France
French cybersecurity expert ChapsVision in interception platform lobbying offensive

With French judicial authorities toughening their stance, cybersecurity expert ChapsVision has stepped up its lobbying to try to make it easier to circumvent the PNIJ interception platform. So far, to no avail.

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
JS Held works for oil firm, investigators open doors in Ukraine, LVMH safety doubts

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

SingaporeOil firm calls on JS Held sleuths

London/Kyiv/LvivUkrainian investigators fund visit by British MPs

ParisSquarcini lawsuit and job ad raise questions over LVMH security

Saudi Arabia
PIF engages corporate investigators to probe misspending at Neom

A Public Investment Fund's probe completed last spring found evidence of financial trickery and over-spending at Neom. In response, the Saudi government has decided to enlist the support of outside investigators in the region. Sources close to the work say the true scale of spending on Western firms is much larger than has been reported.