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Wagner group splits into two plus one

A man attaches a Wagner flag to a tank in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine, on 1 October 2023.
A man attaches a Wagner flag to a tank in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine, on 1 October 2023.© Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters

The fighters, officers and resources of the paramilitary group founded by Yevgeny Pirgozhin are streaming into the three new organisations secretly validated by the Kremlin. Positions in the Africa unit are in high demand, but those of the Ukraine and Middle East branches are proving hard to fill.

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The Agencies' Gazette
MbS and Sunak, OIS/Russia, Prague's VZ, NCSC audit, Tracfin

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community. This week, we bring news from Riyadh, London, Washington, Prague and Paris.

Saudi Arabia/United KingdomMbS refuses terms of his London visit

United StatesOffice of Investment Security further increases presence in Russia

Czech RepublicSpymaster focuses its annual report on new hybrid warfare in Ukraine

United StatesNCSC under audit as it faces change of command

FranceTracfin's uncontrollable Startrac to remain in place

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Russia, Switzerland
Part 3: Swiss fund Horizon Capital AG keeps mum about debts owed by sanctioned oligarch

Russian businessman Mikhail Gutseriev.
Russian businessman Mikhail Gutseriev.© Maxim Shipenkov/EPA/MaxPPP

Worried about legal repercussions since the start of the war in Ukraine, investors have been disentangling themselves from their Russian ties on the Swiss financial market. Like Horizon Capital AG and its sister company SCCF which found themselves owed money by one of Russia's most powerful businessmen, Mikhail Gutseriev, who is now under Western sanctions.

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