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United States
RP Eddy, whose firm Ergo worked for Uber, advises Lytical Ventures, which criticised his former client

Lytical Ventures has commented upon a court decision against Uber, for whom RP Eddy's Ergo once conducted a lengthy investigation. Meanwhile, a job applicant's experience suggests that Ergo is not reluctant to play hardball on behalf of its closely guarded list of clients.

Russia, Ukraine
Deposed Ukrainian aircraft engine manufacturer Motor Sich chairman at heart of secret Kyiv-Moscow negotiations

Intelligence Online has learned that Moscow is trying to recuperate the chairman of the Ukrainian aircraft engine manufacturer after his arrest by the latter's internal intelligence department for alleged collusion with the Russian state. This comes just two years after a Chinese company close to the Chinese Communist Party tried to buy the company.

Ukraine
Ukraine's SBU to score partial victory in counterintelligence power struggle

Ukraine's national security, defence and intelligence committee has put the finishing touches to a new bill strengthening counterintelligence, which remains the SBU's responsibility but will in future come under closer official scrutiny.

Israel
IBI, trust services provider for Israel's cyber industry

Candiru, an Israeli cyber-intelligence company blacklisted by the US Industry and Security a year ago, brought IBI Trust Management into its share capital last month. IBI is the supervisory trustee of Frontex provider Windward.

United Kingdom, United States
Centre for Information Resilience, British rising star of OSINT, seeks US funding

The Centre for Information Resilience, a social enterprise founded by former FCDO officers and whose open source investigations include Ukraine and Afghanistan, is looking for US patrons. As such, it has hired Nina Jankowicz, formerly in charge of counter-disinformation for the Department of Homeland Security.

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
McLarty and Ikea, UN investigator in Manchester, Avisa in crypto, SFO's Edwards, Houghton at Strategy&

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 Brussels, before heading to Manchester and then on to Paris and London.

Brussels Ikea to turn to McLarty over possible Belarusian prisoner links?

Manchester New investigation firm for the UK's North West

Paris Avisa Partners counts on fledgling RAID Square for crypto-investigations

London Former SFO Kellie Edwards goes solo

London Houghton advises Strategy&, drops Crossword

Israel, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, United States
Name of dark PR specialist Ronen Tzur surfaces in huge inheritance case of tycoon Israel Perry

To support their legal dispute with Swiss trustee Dieter Neupert over the inheritance of their late husband and father, Lilly Perry and Tamar Greenspoon are suspected of hiring Israeli influence communications specialist Ronen Tzur, who also advised defence minister Benny Gantz.