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Ukraine
Ukraine's economic security services under close scrutiny

The Ukrainian government has discreetly launched a parliamentary inquiry into possible financial wrongdoing by officers in charge of economic security. A number of services - including internal intelligence, the SBU, and economic security, the BEB - will be probed.

France, Yemen
TotalEnergies keeps an eye on Hachid tribal confederation

TotalEnergies, which is involved in Yemen's Balhaf gas complex, is trying to find a way to get out of the Yemen LNG consortium that runs it. The French state, which could find itself directly involved in the consortium's financing, is closely following the new balance of power in the Hashid tribal confederation, as well as seeking new solutions.

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
StoneTurn, Highgate, Passage Consulting, EPEE

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: every week, we report on events big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community. This week, we head to Washington, London, Paris and Belgrade.

New York/London Mackintosh marks StoneTurn's arrival on British insider threat market

London Ileana Konialidis, from Lukashenko to Highgate

Paris/Belgrade Award for French consultant Jacques Hogard amid ethnic tensions

Washington Passage Consulting steps in as ISR's Washington lobbyist

United Kingdom
Baroness Goudie taking her interests under the radar

Labour peer Baroness Mary Goudie is cleaning up her consulting act after suspension from the House of Lords.

Bulgaria, Serbia, United States
Bulgarian oligarch enlists US lobbyists' help in battling Sofia authorities

Bulgarian former banker Tsvetan Vassilev, exiled in Belgrade, is actively lobbying in Washington against his powerful opponents in Sofia. US consulting firms and an Austria-based consultant are helping him.

United States
Cofer Black, former CIA Counterterrorism Center chief, has colourful history on corporate boards

A "serial consultant", former CIA official Cofer Black sits on the board of a Latvian bank shut down last December for facilitating money laundering and of a troubled US company seeking a cure for brain cancer, whose stock price is currently trading at 99.

Israel
Israeli OSINT specialist Labyrinth closes despite support of former intelligence chiefs

Founded in 2018 by Israeli former military intelligence officers, the open source intelligence firm Labyrinth had heavyweight advisers on board in Tamir Pardo, Amos Yadlin and Roni Alsheich, but that didn't prevent its recent demise.