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Spotlight | France
DGSE swallows up €2bn in resources

France's external intelligence service has launched some major works to increase its interceptions capacities and make room for new staff. Some bugetary juggling has been involved.

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Government Intelligence

Poland, Ukraine
Ukraine and Poland team up anticorruption bureaus under Washington's watchful gaze

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (L) and his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda (R) in Warsaw, Poland, 3 May 2021. © Leszek Szymanski/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

As tensions continue to rise between the West and Russia, Ukraine wants to strengthen cooperation with Poland over anticorruption reforms and regional alternatives to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project. The US is on board the move, seeing Poland as an efficient relay of its eastern European policy.

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Turkey
Turkish intelligence service prepares a new anti-Gulen purge

Turkish intelligence service MIT has again been ordered to find more supposed supporters of outlawed imam Fethulah Gulen, whom Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused of being behind the failed 2016 coup attempt in Turkey. A wave of new arrests is expected this summer in the ranks of the police.

Subscribers only Operations

International Dealmaking

France, Indonesia
After Cairo, Rafale ready to land in Jakarta

Dassault is in the final stages of negotiation with the French and Indonesian finance ministries for funding for the sale of 36 Rafale fighter planes to Indonesia, where an anti-corrution crackdown is underway.

Subscribers only Corporate Intel

Corporate Intelligence

United Kingdom
Stokoe fails to damage RAK investigators before upcoming Gerrard/ENRC case

Stokoe's latest legal actions put the law firm at the front line against private investigators who worked for lawyer Neil Gerrard. Gerrard will have to face in court his nemesis, Kazakh conglomerate ENRC, in the coming weeks.

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Afghanistan, France
NATO suspends Thales and GEOS contract in Kabul

NATO's early withdrawal from Afghanistan means it not longer requires its service contracts in the country. The termination of the most emblematic of these, Thales' telecommunications contract, also spells the end to GEOS's largest account.

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Surveillance & Interception

Israel
Rayzone loses its cyber chief as it tries to free itself of its reliance on SS7

Rayzone, which has already been weakened by document leaks in trials involving third parties, now needs to fill the hole left by the departure of its chief cyber officer.

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