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Canada, China
CSIS under fire from Canadian parliament after stand-off between Trudeau and Xi Jinping

As relations between the two countries become increasingly tense, the federal intelligence service has been ordered to account for its efforts to counter supposed Chinese interference in Canadian affairs.

Central Asia, Russia
Despite change at the top, sparring continues at CSTO

Kazakhstan's Imangali Tasmagambetov, the next head of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, Central Asia's answer to NATO, will struggle to improve the body's standing with some member states.

Moldova
Moldova's anti-corruption drive buttressed by investigators and Western institutions

Private and public anti-corruption experts in Paris, London, Brussels and Washington are offering their assistance to the Moldovan Republic, which is eager to let its Western partners help wage its fight against graft.

Kuwait, United States
Fake lawyer dupes Kuwaiti military attaché in Washington for years

Having omitted to run background checks, representatives of the Kuwaiti Ministry of Defence in Washington, DC had enlisted the services of a man pretending to be a lawyer to handle their legal affairs with the US federal agencies for eight years.

United Kingdom
NGO CoJiT provides link between Amersi, Ian Maxwell and British Conservative MPs

Mohamed Amersi, who has been trying to break into Conservative political circles for some time, has through one of his think tanks employed the parliamentary assistant of rising Conservative MP Alexander Stafford.

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
Quinlan turns to Newsweek, Treliant at Exigen, Beth with Oriol, Boulègue at Audere, Kerley joins Evelyn Partners

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

Washington Journalist-hungry Quinlan hires Newsweek reporter

Washington Treliant poaches exec from Exiger to increase corporate intelligence capacities

Paris Battesti loses Dessenne but still with Beth

London/Paris Post-Soviet expert Boulègue joins Audere and CEPA

London Kerley joins Evelyn Partners

UAE
Geospatial intelligence experts get organised in UAE

Western New Space is making a big push into the UAE, attracted by the rise of geospatial intelligence in the region, despite uncertainty over how many of the growing number of sovereign projects will come to fruition.