Spotlight | Russia, United Kingdom
Monitoring Russia's 'enablers' in the West: are private investigators next?

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
Kolbe rejoins private sector, Raedas gets new office, TRAG's profits down

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

WashingtonCIA veteran Paul Kolbe opens advisory

London/DubaiRaedas to launch UAE office

LondonLow sales for The Risk Advisory Group

Russia, UAE
Former Alpha Group exec rewarded by the Kremlin launches asset tracking business from Dubai

Headed by the former manager of Alpha Group's A1, Andrey Elinson, the asset managing firm Inweasta is expanding its asset tracking and litigation funding activities from its base in Dubai.

Cyprus, United Kingdom
Oligarchs' fixers look for fixers of their own to help them escape sanctions

The consultants operating behind the scenes for their already sanctioned former Russian oligarch clients are themselves being increasingly targeted by Western sanctions. They are looking for investigators to help them avoid or at least reduce the impact of those measures.

United Kingdom, United States
Harvard law professor Matthew Stephenson retained by British embassy in Washington to monitor legislation impacting lawyers and advisers for oligarchs

The Establishing New Authorities for Businesses Laundering and Enabling Risks to Security (ENABLERS) Act, which would impact prominent players in lobbying, legal and corporate intelligence circles, will be reintroduced this year in Congress. British authorities are very interested in following the developments.

Spotlight | United Kingdom
Oligarch crackdown shakes up private investigation sector

The wave of sanctions against Russian oligarchs in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine is having a big impact on the corporate intelligence world.

Spotlight | United Kingdom
Sanctions race generates new market for investigation and assistance work for oligarchs

Londongrad has gone into a frenzy since the start of the Western riposte to Russia's invasion of Ukraine on 24 February. The entire ecosystem which has grown up around the oligarchs is working to help them escape sanctions and limit the reputational and financial damage they are expected to cause.

United Kingdom
Ignat Ostantin, Russian OSINT expert, joins Raedas

Open source investigation, very popular with NGOs and highly visible on Twitter and other social media in recent years, is now being taken up by the private investigation world.