A request from junior oil company Crescent Petroleum for a US court to uphold an arbitration against the National Iranian Oil Company sheds light on the wrongdoings of Bijan Namdar Zanganeh, Iran's former long-standing oil minister.
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Corporate Intel Anti-corruption investigations often create a conflict between the firm and its management involved in the case. But few of these turn as bitter as the dispute between Cognizant and its former legal counsel Steven Schwartz.
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Corporate Intel The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has accused property developer Richard Xia of pocketing $229m from real estate scams in New York. Financial intelligence consultants are helping to investigate the securities fraud case.
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After two years of working in the Gulf, CybelAngel is opening an outpost in Dubai where it is looking to gain a more solid footing in the UAE's part-public cyber sector, prey to internal power struggles.
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Cybersecurity Under pressure from the US, the Greek government led by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has instructed a group of Academy of Athens researchers to relaunch the nuclear energy debate to garner public support for the construction of new reactors.
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Corporate Intel The internal intelligence service, the KNB, is continuing to investigate a group of officers close to ex-Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev, including one of his nephews, Samat Abish. The businessmen in the former president's family have been given little trouble, however.
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Agencies Russian paramilitary force Rosgvardia, backed by special forces and intelligence units, has suffered serious setbacks in Ukraine. For the time being, however, its head, Viktor Zolotov, has not been called to account by the Kremlin leadership.
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