Walter Soriano, whose corporate intelligence firm worked for Oleg Deripaska and Dmitri Rybolovlev, is suing Forensic News for libel and the spotlight is starting to shine on his former employees.
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As the hunt for those responsible for Russia's setbacks in Ukraine continues, lobbyists, private consultants and advisers close to the Kremlin, as well as former and current civil servants, are fearing a wave of purges.
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The concluding details of the major deal were due to be settled at the start of the year. Instead, TotalEnergies finds itself in an impasse with the Iraqi authorities, as fresh obstacles to agreement accumulate.
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While the US watches on with keen interest, the federal prosecutor in Buenos Aires has opened an investigation into the role played by an Argentinian ambassador in helping Chinese companies win government contracts.
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In France and Germany, several corporate intelligence firms are beginning to find their place by specialising in China. Until now, British firms had cornered this market.
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A former State Department official who was close to the Nazarbayev administration, David Merkel has been campaigning for the release of Karim Massimov, who was Chevron's key contact in Kazakhstan.
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As it continues to expand in the European market, particularly in the west, data fusion and analytics specialist TRG Research And Development has changed its majority shareholder with the arrival of Mihaela Radulescu Schwartzenberg.
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