Foreign Office

UAE, United Kingdom
UK Foreign Office concerned about British cyber expert jailed in Abu Dhabi

The British Foreign Office has been in touch with the Emirati authorities regarding a British-Australian cyber specialist who was arrested in the Emirates in mid-January.

Bahrain, United States
Former US Treasury criminal investigator advising Bahrain on terrorism fight

Tim Reilly, an illicit financing expert who was embedded with the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force after 9/11, is now working for the Bahraini foreign office alongside a team of lawyers from DLA Piper.

United Kingdom
UK Foreign Office moves to tighten financial intelligence ties in the Caucasus

The British government intends to boost cooperation with the region's financial intelligence services in order to better face the risk of Russian sanctions being circumvented via the region.

United Kingdom
Private security consultant Deverell never far from Foreign Affairs Committee projects

The former senior military officer John Deverell has not stepped too far away from his former employer, the British Foreign Office, which is now calling on his expertise in counter-terrorism.

United Kingdom
UK's Foreign Office, Russia Unit and MI6 lead fight against Wagner

The British Foreign Office and the intelligence services attached to it are at the centre of an inter-ministerial mechanism coordinating the fight against the Russian private military company Wagner, mainly through counter-disinformation.

The Intelligence Gazette
Ukraine's SSSCIP, Foreign Affairs Committee, China experts at Foreign Office, Wiretapping radicals

Appointments, reforms and key issues: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community.

UkraineSpecial communications service wants more soldiers

United KingdomForeign Affairs Committee calls on intelligence experts to tackle terrorism mission

United Kingdom/ChinaForeign Office builds expertise on China

FranceIntelligence tensions over the surveillance of radical movements minimised before parliament

United Kingdom
Lawyer Cadman, behind Syrian torture trials, eyes lawfare opportunities

Human rights lawyer Toby Cadman is blazing a trail in lawfare cases, like his mentor Steven Kay, against Syria, Russia and even Bulgaria.

United Kingdom
UK Digital Defence Unit struggles to move forward

Defence Digital was harshly criticised by the National Audit Office and is losing its top Foreign Office advisers.

United Kingdom, United States
London and Washington grow ever closer in hunt for oligarchs

Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February, the United Kingdom and the United States have further increased their financial intelligence sharing, first to track down Russian oligarchs and then, more surreptitiously, for reasons of economic security in the face of China.

The Intelligence Gazette
French DGSI's new hiring cell, Rosgvardia's deputy directors, Tel Aviv boosts Albanian cyber, New York jet-setter wins case against Moscow

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community. This week we home in on Paris, Tel Aviv, Tirana and Moscow.

FranceDGSI's new recruitment cell.

RussiaA new deputy for Zolotov.

Israel/AlbaniaTel Aviv pledges cyber security boost to Tirana.

France/RussiaMoscow loses case in Paris court.

Europe, France, Russia
French lawyer Grand d'Esnon leads Alisher Usmanov's fight against EU sanctions

To head his legal battle against European Union sanctions at the European Court of Justice, Russian-Uzbek business magnate Alisher Usmanov has hired a lawyer who used to advise the late French president Jacques Chirac.

United Kingdom
Falklands return to heart of British intelligence concerns

The Falklands islands are once again becoming strategic for the UK, both to develop new space surveillance capabilities and to deal with Argentina, which is quickly moving closer to China.

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
Othrys, Ercom, Hart Security, Risk&Co

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: each week, we report on events both big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community. This week we go to London and Paris.

LondonA TV producer at the helm of intelligence firm Othrys.

ParisErcom and Suneris made full Thales units with Cyril Autant appointment.

LondonHart Security to dispatch intelligence experts to UK's most at-risk embassies.

ParisRisk&Co brings ex-Amarante manager Dimitri Akarawitage to boost corporate security management line.

The Intelligence Gazette
CIS, UK counter state threats bill, Palestine-Algeria

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community from London to Paris via Moscow.

Palestine-AlgeriaMaster spy Noureddine Mekri takes a stab at Palestinian reconciliation

United KingdomChristine Lee affair sparks Tom Tugendhat's push for draft bill on counter state threats

Russia'Compatriot' think-tank receives award