Spotlight | United Kingdom, United States
Audere Group investigating founders of Tory-linked concierge group Quintessentially

United Kingdom
British private spies and a fund under attack join forces against their short-seller enemy

Intelligence firm Audere Group has landed new funding from a financial services company known to have been targeted by a well-known UK short seller, Viceroy Research.

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
Darroch dines with Audere, Hakluyt, Iremos, ex-Optima

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

LondonKim Darroch dines with Audere

ChicagoEx-CIA officer and former Biden briefer takes seat at Hakluyt

ParisIremos purchase brings ChapsVision closer to Unibail

LondonOptima founder starts new chapter in defence sector

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
Tory donor crafts own narrative, Revue des Deux Mondes and Bousquet, Bulgarian refinery lobbying

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

LondonTory donor Mohamed Amersi takes reputation into his own hands

ParisBousquet de Florian and Sellal at Revue des Deux Mondes gala

Washington/SofiaLobbyist running for Bulgarian refinery builds network in Sofia

United Kingdom
Unwitting 'journalist-consultant' caught up in Audere's Maltese healthcare and Conservative concierge probes

Intelligence Online has learned that private investigations group Audere, which was commissioned by Steward Healthcare to investigate Malta's political authorities, subcontracted work to a journalist for years without telling him who had actually ordered it.

United Kingdom
Former Tory security figures set up Ascalane Partners

Two former Tory MPs close to ex-premier Boris Johnson are launching a new consultancy after losing their seats in July's general election.

Spotlight | Russia, United Kingdom
Same contractor provided CT Group with allegedly forged records in three London High Court disputes

Treated as a star source by senior executives, a former Eastern European spy now living in Russia provided the investigations firm with bank statements, database excerpts and real estate valuations. All have been labelled forgeries in High Court litigation.

United Kingdom
Investigation firm Audere on high alert as it tries to fend off attacks from its nemesis

While still having to contend with a major staff turnover, the private investigation and security firm Audere is now having to defend itself from attacks in the media and on X from its foes embroiled in the Steward Healthcare short-selling scandal.

United States
In Chicago, new round between short-selling company Viceroy and corporate intelligence firms

Viceroy is seeking documents from an accountancy firm to prove that its 2023 reports of fraud at Medical Properties Trust were true. Steward Healthcare, MPT's accomplice in the fraud, is said to have hired Audere to monitor the short seller's co-founder, Fraser Perrings.

United Kingdom
Corporate intelligence firm Audere sets sights on former ISC members

Seasoned intelligence expert Charles Blackmore is making changes to his business structure and is looking among ex-MPs turned serial advisers to fill his board.

United Kingdom, United States
Former FBI officer Mark Rossini in legal spat over consulting for Walter Soriano and CT Group

After a lengthy period below the radar after his departure from the FBI, Mark Rossini is in the spotlight again for his work with intelligence consultant Walter Soriano and with the influence firm CT Group in Puerto Rico.

Spotlight | United Kingdom
Planned Middle East group COMENA sparks Tory discord

The creation of a new group affiliated with the Conservatives, the Conservative Friends of Middle East and North Africa, aims to be a competitor to the historic Conservative Middle East Council, which is under scrutiny by Arab embassies because of its potential ties to Iran.