Spotlight | Mongolia, United States
K2 Integrity steps into Mongolian anti-corruption morass

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.

United States
Banco San Juan alleges discrimination against Venezuelan-linked banks

The Puerto Rican Banco San Juan claims that the New York Federal Reserve Bank has unfairly revoked the master accounts of many banks with Venezuelan owners.

United Kingdom
From K2 Integrity to Nigeria, Lebanese fraudster uses rivals' probes in legal battle

Elie Taktouk, a businessman found guilty of fraud, has used the findings of investigations previously ordered into his affairs by his former business associates to prove that he did not have the money to pay them.

Spotlight | Bahrain
Bahraini government enlists K2 Integrity on wide-ranging national oil company corruption investigation

Investigators at Jules Kroll's K2 Integrity spent a year investigating insider dealing at Bahrain's state oil group. Its findings were used last month to confirm the prosecution of a senior engineer at the group.

United States
K2 investigates the world of beauty

The hair and skincare company Head Kandy claims that founder Kayla McNeill fraudulently billed it for lavish personal expenses. A K2 report the beauty company submitted itemized a long list of charges the investigative firm deemed to be improper, which McNeill denied.

Ukraine, United States
James Glassman coordinates anti-Russian influence campaign for Ukraine oligarch Akhmetov

In a campaign ordered by Ukrainian businessman Rinat Akhmetov's SCM, documents supplied by DCI Group to the US Department of Justice reveal the extent of efforts deployed by Glassman Entreprises to communicate about Russia's plundering of Ukrainian cereal, steel and minerals.

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
Suppelsa at Raedas, Lord Vaizey in crypto, ESL does PR

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 Istanbul, London and Paris.

Istanbul/London Raedas poaches from super lawyer Amsterdam

London Influential Lord Vaizey tries his hand at cryptocurrency

Paris ESL boss works on his image

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
K2, Jonathan Benton, The Ambassador Partnership, Talos

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 New York, London, Paris and Kyiv.

New YorkK2's NY office has busy agenda.

LondonAnti-corruption investigator Jonathan Benton sets up foundation.

Paris/LondonESL & Network teams with Britain's The Ambassador Partnership.

KyivCisco Talos mobilised to counter Russian cyber activism in Ukraine.

United Kingdom
Jason Wright reteams with Krolls at K2, marking end of Argo Associates

Hong Kong private investigation veteran Jason Wright is closing his firm Argo Associates to join K2 Integrity in London.

Spotlight | United States
World Bank takes on new anticorruption investigators

The institution's latest report on combating fraud and corruption is due to be published in October. Internally, it began taking steps to crack down harder earlier this year.

Spotlight | Europe, United States
Frank Schneider's arrest shakes up Luxembourg's intelligence community

The corporate intelligence firm Sandstone's boss Frank Schneider is a pillar of Luxembourg's small but international private investigation community, hence the interest surrounding his arrest on 29 April while he was visiting his family.

United States
K2 recreates Kroll in Chicago

Father and son Jules Kroll and Jeremy Kroll's K2 Integrity, [...]

France, United States
Olivier Hassid brings K2 to Paris

The former managing director of the French business security and safety directors club, the CDSE, and then PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) partner [...]

United Kingdom
K2 lands new Tripoli contract

Fathi Bashagha, the interior minister of Libya's UN-recognised Government of National Unity (GNU), has commissioned Jules and Jeremy Kroll's corporate [...]