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Edition from 15 may, to december, - n°688

SPOTLIGHT

PRIVATE SECURITY

VIP bodyguards: protecting the super-rich

Foreign service budget cuts and the gradual disappearance of piracy in the Gulf of Aden are behind growing numbers of private security companies moving into the industry’s practically only growth area: close protection for the very wealthy.Page Group’s new venture - Britain's Page Group, the European External(...) [ 516 words ]

THE RED LINE

AFGHANISTAN / UNITED STATES / UNITED KINGDOM

Kabul: tax system distorts private security market

British companies protecting European embassies in Afghanistan are subject to tax while competitors contracted to work for the US do not have to pay.(...) [ 349 words ]

TERABYTES

DUE DILIGENCE

Dark Drive goes on the defensive…and offensive

[ 324 words ]

Tricia Canzeri, the VIPs' ambassador

[ 381 words ]

SWEDEN

Vesper Group targets private sector

The Swedish foreign service’s only private security contractor, Vesper Group has beefed up its board and is bidding to make its mark in the private sector.(...) [ 199 words ]

UNITED KINGDOM

Greyhawk carves niche

Founded barely a year ago, the small London-based consultancy Greyhawk advises international development banks.(...) [ 191 words ]

UNITED KINGDOM

Pretexters flout privacy drive

While Britain has been trying to stamp out the sale of personal data since the News of the World hacking scandal, the field continues to become ever more sophisticated.(...) [ 200 words ]

FRANCE

Soulie's last stand

French consultant Jean-Paul Soulie, still unstoppable in his eighties, is trying to mobilise his old network of contacts in Canada to help France sell its Rafale to the country.(...) [ 189 words ]

FRANCE

Decision time for SOFEMA

SOFEMA, the former French state owned military exports agency, seems poised for a shareholder shakeup. The company’s board meets on June 3.(...) [ 311 words ]

UNITED KINGDOM - Saladin, the British private security company headed by Paul Brookes, will have to throw(...) [ 100 words ]

UNITED KINGDOM - Page Group, Stuart Page's private security group, had its contract to protect European(...) [ 63 words ]

UNITED KINGDOM - Richard Dearlove, the head of the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS or MI6) from 1999(...) [ 77 words ]

FRANCE / ROMANIA - Military exports via Bucharest Renault Trucks Defense signed a deal mid-April with the Romanian company MFA-Mizil to(...) [ 72 words ]

UNITED KINGDOM - Malachite homes in on Morocco Malachite Advisors, the emerging markets consultancy founded by MI6 veteran Christopher(...) [ 78 words ]

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UNITED STATES - Nardello & Co., the private investigation firm founded in 2003 by ex-federal prosecutor(...) [ 117 words ]

CANADA - GardaWorld, the international subsidiary of the Canadian security guard and cash transportation(...) [ 75 words ]

CANADA - IPSA International, the US-Canadian corporate intelligence and private security company,(...) [ 119 words ]

ISRAEL

Tribunal to lift lid on gas deals

For six years, the Israeli magnate and former Mossad operative Yosef Maiman traded in Egyptian gas in Israel with his partner Hussein Salem, a former Egyptian intelligence(...) [ 205 words ]

MIDDLE EAST - International probe into presidential fortunes With neither Tunisia, Libya nor Egypt’s governments having managed to recover assets(...) [ 144 words ]

ISRAEL - Elbit’s missing millions in Nigeria The Israeli defence group Elbit, which is listed on the Tel Aviv stock market, announced(...) [ 129 words ]

SYRIA - Spy software sales company receives hefty fine Like other internet monitoring software manufacturers (>IOL 657), Germany’s Computerlinks(...) [ 93 words ]

Edition from december, to december, - n°687

SPOTLIGHT

CORPORATE INTELLIGENCE

Consultants go to war on Mount Simandou

The largely private investigation ordered by Guinean President Alpha Conde into corruption in the country’s mining sector has led to a bitter stand-off between consultants working for the government and those defending the companies that are being probed. It has also prompted an official US Foreign Corrupt Practices(...) [ 524 words ]

THE RED LINE

FRANCE

Leasing deal mooted for A400M transport plane

With its defence budget frozen, Paris is thinking of leasing the new A400M military transport plane.(...) [ 357 words ]

TERABYTES

DUE DILIGENCE

Ultimara works on successor to optronic pod

[ 286 words ]

MEICO, rebel arms supplier

[ 391 words ]

FRANCE

Amarante freed French hostage

Pierre-Antoine Lorenzi's private security company handled the negotiation and release of French hostage Charles Ballard, the financial director of the NGO Acted in Afghanistan.(...) [ 187 words ]

UNITED KINGDOM

Black Cube puzzles

Britain's corporate intelligence world was intrigued last week when news broke that an self-styled "Israeli corporate intelligence outfit" by the name of Black(...) [ 144 words ]

FRANCE / MALAYSIA

Tigers to fight Sultan Kiram III

Malaysian Defence Minister Ahmad Zahid sought out Eurocopter at the Langkawi International Maritime & Aerospace Exhibition in March to discuss Malaysia’s procurement(...) [ 196 words ]

UNITED KINGDOM

Fulcrum lands major contract

The London law firm Fulcrum Chambers, which specialises in corruption cases (>IOL 641), snagged one of the most sought-after contracts in the City at the beginning(...) [ 202 words ]

FRANCE - Geos, the private security group headed by retired general Jean Heinrich, has won the(...) [ 67 words ]

UNITED KINGDOM

G3 makes first investment

The first corporate intelligence firm to get into venture capital, G3 recently invested in a mobile phone detection company.(...) [ 302 words ]

UNITED KINGDOM - David Gold has been appointed chairman of the board of Proven, the “litigation support"(...) [ 122 words ]

UNITED KINGDOM - G3, the corporate intelligence firm founded by South African Andre Pienaaris negotiating(...) [ 89 words ]

AFGHANISTAN / EUROPEAN UNION - Kabul EEAS security contract in play again In the wake of Page Group’s fiscal woes in Afghanistan (>IOL 684), the European Union(...) [ 149 words ]

SAUDI ARABIA / EUROPE - French, British defence chiefs cross paths Admiral Edouard Guillaud, France’s chief of defence staff, and his British counterpart(...) [ 75 words ]

UNITED KINGDOM - Tom Strathclyde, the former Conservative leader of the House of Lords, has joined the(...) [ 70 words ]

FRANCE - Bernard Squarcini, who headed France's internal intelligence agency, the Direction Centrale(...) [ 61 words ]

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CANADA

GardaWorld pitches to diplomats

The Canadian security group is looking for more business protecting embassies and diplomatic corps around the world.(...) [ 227 words ]

UNITED STATES - Michael Hayden, the former head of the National Security Agency (1999-2005) and the CIA(...) [ 78 words ]

UNITED STATES - Global Integrated Security, the security subsidiary of former Royal Marine Damien Perl’s(...) [ 56 words ]

UNITED STATES - Michael Slattery, who was hired seven years ago to set up the company's corporate intelligence(...) [ 132 words ]

UNITED STATES - RAK’s flaks Having won a long-fought PR war with his brother Khalid (>IOL 620), Saud Bin Saqr al(...) [ 120 words ]

AFGHANISTAN / EUROPEAN UNION - Kabul EEAS security contract in play again In the wake of Page Group’s fiscal woes in Afghanistan (>IOL 684), the European Union(...) [ 149 words ]

SYRIA - Diplomatic advisor for opposition The National Coalition, the main political opposition to President Bashar al-Assad, began(...) [ 98 words ]

SAUDI ARABIA / EUROPE - French, British defence chiefs cross paths Admiral Edouard Guillaud, France’s chief of defence staff, and his British counterpart(...) [ 75 words ]

QATAR - Thales and Soulie settle, say sources Thales has reached an out-of-court financial settlement with consultant Jean-Paul Soulie,(...) [ 96 words ]

AFGHANISTAN / EUROPEAN UNION - Kabul EEAS security contract in play again In the wake of Page Group’s fiscal woes in Afghanistan (>IOL 684), the European Union(...) [ 149 words ]