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

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
Arcanum, Wallbrook, Kroll

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 Paris and London.

ParisEnd of Arcanum in France

London/Los AngelesWallbrook targets Californian tech industry with Wu

LondonKroll launches new growth drive

India, Israel, Kazakhstan, United States
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.

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

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

France
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.

United Kingdom
Kazakh opposition's new offensive

The information website Kazakhstan 2.0, which focuses on the misdeeds of President Nursultan Nazarbayev's government, was launched recently.

United States
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 [...]

Switzerland
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, [...]

China, Kazakhstan
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.

Europe
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 - [...]

Africa, France, UAE
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.

Belgium, France, Kazakhstan
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 [...]

France, Turkey
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 [...]

Europe
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 [...]

France
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 [...]

France
Squarcini/Arcanum leaks disappear

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

Kazakhstan
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.

Congo, France
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 [...]

France, Russia
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 [...]

Congo, France, Togo
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 [...]

France, Russia
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 [...]

Kazakhstan, United States
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.

Kazakhstan, Switzerland
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.

France
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 [...]