United Kingdom
Benton teams with Prevail ex-commandos to recover assets

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
BlueVoyant in unfair dismissal spat, two ex-Met chiefs team up, GEOS lands Dushanbe contract

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 Delaware, London and Brussels.

Dover, Delaware Cyberfirm BlueVoyant sued by former CCO

London Hogan-Howe teams up with ex-Met man at Intelligent Sanctuary

Brussels GEOS and Red Line land strategic EU contract in Tajikistan

United States
George Clooney's NGO hit in court by a Sudanese businessman accused of corruption

The Sentry has withdrawn the report that alleged corruption on the part of the Sudanese businessman after being sued for libel and slander. No damages were awarded in the case but the report is no longer available.

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
K2, Jonathan Benton, The Ambassador Partnership, Talos

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 New York, London, Paris and Kyiv.

New YorkK2's NY office has busy agenda.

LondonAnti-corruption investigator Jonathan Benton sets up foundation.

Paris/LondonESL & Network teams with Britain's The Ambassador Partnership.

KyivCisco Talos mobilised to counter Russian cyber activism in Ukraine.

Spotlight | United States
World Bank takes on new anticorruption investigators

The institution's latest report on combating fraud and corruption is due to be published in October. Internally, it began taking steps to crack down harder earlier this year.

Austria, United Kingdom
Nordheider builds bridge between Hakluyt and image-conscious Swarovski

The Mayfair strategic advisory firm led by Varun Shandra has hired the former head of the crystal group's professional division.

Europe, United Kingdom
Welund keeps tabs on environmentalists

Investigations into environmental groups have been conducted for as long as there has been a corporate intelligence business. But few companies are as involved as Britain's Welund, which was exposed in Vienna earlier this month.

Ukraine, United Kingdom
The squad of investigators aiding Privat against Kolomoisky

On 24 February, the High Court in London refused to ask PrivatBank to have its former owner, Igor Kolomoisky, questioned [...]

United Kingdom
Kiris lands former MoD man in Riyadh

Retired Air Vice-Marshal Ian Morrison, who left the military at [...]

United Kingdom
Ex-army chief Houghton gets busy in private sector

Former British Chief of the Defence Staff Nicholas Houghton, who retired last year, launched the consulting firm De Vinculis in [...]

United Kingdom
Powell hires former soldiers at Inter-Mediate

Recently retired chief of defence staff Nicholas Houghton has joined Inter-Mediate, the private diplomacy firm headed by Jonathan Powell, former [...]

Jonathan Powell back in Tripoli

Former chief of staff to Tony Blair at Downing Street, Jonathan Powell discreetly met with acting Libyan prime minister Abdallah [...]