Spotlight | France, Russia
Moscow poised to recover funds in French court asset tracking case

France
French intelligence services and financial prosecutors increase ties

Discussions between intelligence services and prosecutors probing financial crimes used to be carried out on an informal basis - but now they are intensifying, with an increasing focus on security risks raised by outsourcing anti-corruption work.

Ukraine
Ukrainian asset recovery agency replenishes military coffers

Behind the military front in Kyiv is a war for control of private assets. Registered on Ukrainian soil, these assets and entities can be seized under criminal investigations or on the basis of sanctions, then sold for the benefit of the country's defence system.

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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.

Russia
Kremlin puts its think tank in media spotlight

The Russian Institute of Strategic Research, headed by former external intelligence chief Mikhail Fradkov, is under orders to raise its media profile.

Russia, Ukraine
Moscow's new high command embarks on three-stage scorched earth offensive

Surrounded by powerful rivals, new Russian commander in Ukraine Sergey Surovikin is looking to establish his authority with an audacious battle plan. His aim is to retake lost Ukrainian territory, force Kyiv to negotiate and win the confidence of Vladimir Putin.

Ukraine, United Kingdom
David Brown, the man who walked out of Dmitry Firtash's French Riviera villa

While the US pursues its efforts to have him extradited from Austria, Firtash is still fighting to recover frozen assets including a sumptuous villa on the French Riviera, a property still occupied by Firtash's right-hand man Robert Shetler-Jones, who once had help from consultant David Brown.

Russia
Putin's financial super-investigator

A former FSB officer is in charge of financial investigations into Russia's oligarchs at the Moscow prosecutor's office.