Spotlight | France, Uzbekistan
Emmanuel Macron sets out to woo Tashkent

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
Hakluyt, ADIT/ECCO, FTI Consulting

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 Washington, London, Singapore and Paris.

New YorkHakluyt brings in hedge fund veteran.

ParisAlain Fernandez brings ADIT and ECCO closer together on offsets.

London/SingaporeCrédit Suisse not doing well against former Georgian president despite FTI Consulting's help.

France, Ukraine
Zelensky eyes spy satellite

According to our sources, the Ukrainian defence ministry has entered talks with the French government about procuring a military observation [...]

France
French government agonises over recovered ill-gotten gains

The French government has started to recover millions of euros from foreign money-laundering convictions against the likes of Syrian businessman Rifaat Al Assad, Uzbek first daughter Gulnara Karimova, and Equatorial Guinea's Teodorín Obiang Nguema. A new development bill that will be debated by parliament this week could provide for the money to returned to the countries it was stolen from.

Europe, Turkmenistan
Ashgabat ramps up Caspian Sea and air defences with Ankara and Paris

Turkmenistan, which has not officially reported any Covid-19 cases, is ploughing ahead with its defence procurement agenda.

Brazil, France
Macron-Bolsonaro tensions may handicap Airbus in Brasilia

The war of words between French president Emmanuel Macron and [...]

Uzbekistan
How Tashkent spymaster was sacked

Rustam Ionyatov, the feared head of the SNB, Uzbekistan's answer to the KGB, has paid for the vast purge that [...]

Europe
Airbus's mine scandal hides battle between former royal trustees

A fraud complaint that was filed to the Paris prosecutor's office recently against the mining company Pearl Gold, citing Airbus, [...]

France, Turkmenistan
Ashgabat holds cards in space battle between Thales and Airbus

Thales is battling hard to win the contract to supply an optical observation satellite to Turkmenistan. At stake is the industrial independence of Thales in geo-spatial intelligence.

France, Kazakhstan
Contacts behind EADS contracts

Behind the French legal investigation into bribes allegedly paid by Airbus to Kazakh officials, it has emerged that the European [...]

Minister Hassane Baraze Moussa brings in new experts

Niger's minister of mines Hassane Baraze Moussa switched up his [...]

Ian Davies behind the reins of Qatari copper project

Scottish engineer Ian Davies took over the helm of QMSD Mining, a Sudanese subsidiary of Qatari public firm Qatar Mining, [...]