Episode 3 - Kazakhstan : Paid to track down the president's enemies

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BellTrox works on same hacking contracts as ancestor Appin 

The Indian cyberintelligence firm currently under investigation in the US also worked on the Ablyazov case.

BTA vs Ablyazov : two former Stasi agents on trial in Brussels 

Two former Stasi officers turned private investigators, Johan Timmerman and [...]

Airbus continues to retool anti-corruption apparatus 

Still being probed by the British and French anti-corruption authorities, the European plane maker is keen to turn the page.

Kazakh opposition's new offensive 

The information website Kazakhstan 2.0, which focuses on the misdeeds [...]

Chodiev guns -again- for lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin 

The bitter legal feud between International Mineral Resources (IMR), a mining company controlled by oligarch Patokh Chodiev, a Kazakh of [...]

Giannakopoulos heads new Global Risk advisory board 

Global Risk Profile, the Swiss intelligence firm associated with the Geneva-based consultant Nicolas Giannakopoulos, recently constituted an advisory board. Giannakopoulus, [...]

Hong Kong case sheds light on Kazakh-Chinese connections 

A number of recent court cases in Hong Kong have targeted Dominic Lau, a key figure in Chinese-Kazakh state business dealings.

Chodiev increasingly isolated by his former allies 

According to our sources, Kazakh Uighur-origin oligarch Alijan Ibragimov, a shareholder in the mining conglomerate Eurasian Resources Group (ERG - [...]

Couriol's offshore finance high-wire act for CAC 40 companies 

Airbus in Mali, LVMH in Panama, Creduit Suisse on Russia: Olivier Couriol has been involved in some of the most audacious investment deals by major European companies.

Ablyazov's secret lobbying against Chodiev 

According to our sources, Mukhtar Ablyazov, the dissident Kazakh oligarch, has been in contact with the Belgian parliamentary commission that [...]

Gueant's son-in-law defends Uzan clan's interests 

Financial consultant Jean-Charles Charki, the son-in-law of ex-interior minister Claude Guéant, (IOL 770) is handling the bankruptcy of the luxury [...]

Kazakhgate: Chodiev probes Belgian accusers 

The Kazakh-Uzbek oligarch Patokh Chodiev went to great lengths to beef up his offensive against the Belgian government before the [...]

Igtet chases Khrapunov from Alps 

A legal battle between Kazakh oligarch Ilyas Krapunov and Libyan businessman Abdul-Basit Igtet over ownership of L’Igloo, a chalet in [...]

Squarcini/Arcanum leaks disappear 

Links to the mysterious website Kazaword (see HERE) stopped working several days ago. The law firm working for the Kazakh [...]

Kazakh mining oligarchs slug it out 

Targeted by a number of law suits and numerous private investigations, the three shareholders in the mining giant ERNC are starting to fall out.

Episode 1 - Hermes/LVMH: tactical support for Bernard Arnault's silk scarf war  Free

On the basis of his own records, one of the affairs which most involved Bernard Squarcini after – and perhaps [...]

Episode 2 - Congo B: surveillance of opponents for a president under siege 

Well before he went private, Bernard Squarcini was already a close observer of Central Africa. He has many contacts there [...]

Episode 4 - Dmitri Rybolovlev : reconnaissance missions for a litigious oligarch 

Apart from Kazakhstan, Arcanum Global Intelligence brought Bernard Squarcini another client in the form of Russian oligarch Dmitri Rybolovlev, who [...]

Episode 5 - Pefaco: Arrangements with Africa's last remaining Corsican godfathers 

One of the three reasons for the search carried out at Bernard Squarcini's offices in April 2016, just as for [...]

Episode 6 - Fabien Baussart: high speed due diligence 

On April 6 2013, Bernard Squarcini sent a text message to Patrick Calvar, who was his number two at the [...]

Hacking: Astana targets Ketebayev  Free

Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle, the law firm representing Kazakhstan in its ongoing New York law suit against hackers who [...]

Astana launches hunt for hackers 

Nursultan Nazarbayev's regime is determined to ensure that the perpetrators of a major attack on government officials' e-mails are caught and brought to justice.

Arcanum caught up in Kazakh intrigues 

Hacked e-mails anonymously posted online (see here), shed light on a deal between private investigation firm Arcanum and the Kazakh government.

French security's influential Corsicans 

Corsican officials who held high office in intelligence and the French police during Nicolas Sarkozy's term as president are flooding into the CAC-40.

Struggling ERG firm hopes to turn the tide 

Locked in a dispute with his directors, the chairman of [...]

How Maurel dressed itself up to attract Pertamina 

On the eve of an official takeover bid by Indonesia's Pertamina for the French oil company Maurel & Prom a [...]