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    Spotlight, Spy Way of Life | UAE
    The plush Dubai skyscraper at the centre of the Middle East investigations sector

    The Index Tower in Dubai.
    The Index Tower in Dubai. © Obstando Images/Alamy

    Across the globe, spies love to gather in inconspicuous dens to meet contacts and hold discreet conversations. This week, Intelligence Online takes a snoop around Index Tower, in the Dubai International Financial Centre, where corporate sleuths rub shoulders in the lifts while competing for engagements on the biggest legal fights in the region.

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    Laos, Thailand
    Sarath Ratanavadi's ties at the heart of Thai big business wars

    Gulf Energy Development CEO Sarath Ratanavadi (centre) alongside former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (right) and former Charoen Pokphand Group chairman Dhanin Chearavanont on 22 August 2024.
    Gulf Energy Development CEO Sarath Ratanavadi (centre) alongside former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (right) and former Charoen Pokphand Group chairman Dhanin Chearavanont on 22 August 2024. © Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters

    The swearing in of new Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul heralds an open war within Thai big business to contain the Shinawatra clan's networks. The first offensive centred on hydroelectric projects in Laos.

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    France, Lebanon
    French intel loses court battle over deported Lebanese research scientist

    The Institut Mines-Télécoms university in Lille, in northern France, where the deported Lebanese researcher had been working.
    The Institut Mines-Télécoms university in Lille, in northern France, where the deported Lebanese researcher had been working. © Séverine Courbe/PhotoPQR/La Voix du Nord/MaxPPP

    The French administrative court has rejected evidence seeking to prove links between a Lebanese researcher at the Institut Mines-Télécoms in Lille and Hezbollah. The DGSI domestic intelligence agency presented this evidence in a white memo, which provided the basis on which French authorities deported the academic in 2023, deeming her a threat to public security.

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