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Belarus
Belarus KGB steps up attacks on dissidents' armed wing

Minsk's intelligence services have launched a barrage of increasingly sophisticated attacks on Svetlana Tikhanovskaya's government in exile, notably targeting her "defence minister", the KGB's bête noire.

France, Middle East
With defence in its sights, Jolt Capital cosies up to leading Gulf families

Advised by former French armed forces minister Florence Parly, the investment fund is stepping up its fundraising in the Middle East. With close ties to Paris, Jolt intends to strengthen its defence business.

France, Iraq, United Kingdom
Korek case: Sirwan Barzani goes after Raedas

International Arbitration Court rejects Korek Telecom's claims that evidence gathered by the corporate intelligence firm Raedas, which it alleged was obtained illegally, had impacted its decision that favoured an industry competitor.

Kazakhstan, United States
Black Ice AI pitches its services to Kazakhstan asset hunters

The Texas-based firm, which conducts "know your customer" (KYC) investigations, has attracted the attention of the Kazakh government for its foreign-held ill-gotten assets probes.

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
Victoria Intelligence, Beth Sizeland goes private, CohnReznick shops at Exiger

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: each week, we report on events big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community. This week, we head to Essex, London and New York.

EssexRachael Spanton, from safety at BP to private consulting

LondonBoris Johnson's ex-deputy national security adviser heads to private sector

New YorkCohnReznick lands Exiger's construction monitoring practice

France
DGSI big data analysis programme behind schedule

The successful bids for carrying out the second phase of the DGSI's OTDH big data analysis platform have not yet been chosen. An announcement had been due at the end of June, but now the summer shutdown has begun.