Spotlight | India, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Athena investigates Indian cyber privateers for Azima in his hacking case against RAK

United Kingdom, United States
End of ENRC v SFO bread and butter for investigators

In dropping its investigation into Kazakh miner ENRC, the Serious Fraud Office is closing the door on one of the largest intelligence sagas of the past decade. The multifaceted case had been a healthy money earner for a slew of investigators.

Spotlight | India, United Kingdom, United States
Worldwide battle over Indian-run hacking for hire converges in North Carolina

The many facets of ENRC's legal battle with its former lawyer Neil Gerrard have all ended up before a court in North Carolina, USA. The Kazakh firm is helping businessman Farhad Azima seek proof that Gerrard ordered Indian firm CyberRoot to wage a cyberattack.

India, Israel, United Kingdom, United States
As hacking accusations against it mount up, CyberRoot strikes back in Indian courts

Indian cyber intelligence company CyberRoot is beating its own path in the face of the ongoing investigator and hacker-for-hire wars between ENRC-funded camps and those led by lawyer Neil Gerrard, Dechert and the Ras Al Khaimah emirate.

Switzerland, UAE, United Kingdom
Athena Intelligence investigates in Gulf Petrochem oil trader wars

The Swiss corporate intelligence firm conducted a probe for Italian bank UniCredit in an oil dispute that was part of a much bigger fraud scheme involving Gulf Petrochem.

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
Athena in crypto, Dominic Armstrong, Control Risks

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 and Geneva.

London Ex-Aegis Armstrong launches Horatius Advisory.

Geneva Athena Intelligence makes crypto debut.

London Control Risks has limited 2021 damage by cost cutting.

Spotlight | India, United Kingdom, United States
Aditya Jain follows in the footsteps of cyber privateer Rajat Khare under the watchful eye of Indian intelligence

After having drawn little attention to date, Aditya Jain, who works as a consultant for PWC, has been forced into public view by the North Carolina court handling a computer piracy case brought by former arms transporter Farhad Azima against the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah.

United Kingdom, United States
New PR push ahead of court battle between Neil Gerrard, ENRC and their investigators

Ahead of the court hearing into his dispute with Kazakh conglomerate ENRC, a new PR campaign has been unleashed, helped by a well-established investigator.

United Kingdom
Stokoe fails to damage RAK investigators before upcoming Gerrard/ENRC case

Stokoe's latest legal actions put the law firm at the front line against private investigators who worked for lawyer Neil Gerrard. Gerrard will have to face in court his nemesis, Kazakh conglomerate ENRC, in the coming weeks.

United Kingdom
More investigators embroiled in Neil Gerrard's legal disputes

A case management conference was held in London on 21 April into a complaint filed by jailed Jordanian lawyer against Neil Gerrard, a former partner in the law firm Dechert. The affair, which is closely linked to litigation launched by Farhad Azima against the RAK and others by ENRC against Gerrard, involves some of the top names in British private investigation.

United Kingdom, United States
Azima targets Gerrard through Del Rosso

A few days after filing a complaint in North Carolina against investigator Nick Del Rosso of Vital Management Services (IOL [...]

Spotlight | Russia, United Kingdom
Dmitry Vozianov, Oligarchs' trouble-shooting czar

"Be careful if you write about him", Intelligence Online was warned when it started looking into Dmitry Vozianov a few weeks ago. There are not many people in the corporate intelligence world who inspire as much awe as this consultant [.

United Kingdom
Quaestio turns tables on Ras Al Khaimah's investigators

An investigation by the corporate intelligence firm Quaestio forms the basis of the particulars of a claim by the law firm Stokoe against well-known investigators Patrick Grayson and Stuart Page.

UAE, United Kingdom
RAK power struggles: Patrick Grayson and Stuart Page focus of new case being brought by Al Sadeq's lawyers

Two of London's best-known private investigators are caught up in a case linked to Ras Al Khaimah and lawyer Neil Gerrard.

Spotlight | UAE, United Kingdom, United States
Buchanan, emir's eminence grise, at heart of RAK wars

The vendetta being waged by the Emir of Ras al-Khaimah, Saud bin Saqr Al Qassimi, against his brothers and their allies has sparked a series of legal proceedings from London to New York.

Switzerland
Heptagone, Diligence launch investigators association

Geneva's investigation community now has its own trade association, the Aspire (Association Suisse des Professionnels de l'Investigation et du Renseignement [...]

France, UAE, United Kingdom, United States
The Ras Al Khaimah Investment Authority trails French connection to recover its lost funds

Against the backdrop of an interminable dynastic scuffle, the Ras Al Khaimah Investment Authority is on a vast worldwide hunt to recover arrears reportedly embezzled by its former senior officials, Khater Massaad and Oussama El Omari.

Europe, India
Exclusive: Inside India's shadowy offensive cyber-business

Appin Security is no more, however India continues to be at the forefront of offensive hacking. After an in-depth investigation, Intelligence Online can reveal that the cyber-security firm Phronesis is now spearheading the Indian government's cyber-offensive strategy.

Europe
Rajat Khare rings the changes with Boundary Holding

Indian cyber expert Rajat Khare, who has worked with an array of corporate intelligence firms that have been involved in [...]