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FRANCE RUSSIA Issue 770 dated 16/11/2016

Episode 6 - Fabien Baussart: high speed due diligence

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

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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 [...]

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

At the end of 2013, Bernard Squarcini joined the American business intelligence company Arcanum Global Intelligence (IOL 690), which put [...]

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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 [...]

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

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Bernard Squarcini, ever the business intelligence supporting role player

Bernard Squarcini, the Mr. Fix-it of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy and former head of the French domestic intelligence service (DCRI, now DGSI), has also worked in the business sector. He is less at ease, however, among the high-rise office blocks of Paris's La Defense business district than in the Corsican restaurants of the French capital. [...]

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

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

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

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

Bernard Squarcini, ever the business intelligence supporting role player

Chemezov bitter over Mistral deal

Riyadh could finance Mistral for Egypt

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New Saudi Space Agency takes on more staff

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Pragma Security opens French doors for Russia's Qrator

Diligence and GPW face off in Pugachev case

Fabien Baussart

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

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

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

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

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

Bernard Squarcini, ever the business intelligence supporting role player

Chemezov bitter over Mistral deal

Riyadh could finance Mistral for Egypt

Cold War-style arbitration looms for Mistral

Making of Mistral deal

Sarkozy stuck in Putin's honey-pot

Djouhri’s Russian connection

Police Intelligence Agency Tails Russian Tourist

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