Spotlight | France
With LVMH-Squarcini indictment, epic battles that once raged in French corporate intelligence come to the fore

France
LVMH picks new global security director

The French luxury giant LVMH is poised to reveal internally the name of its new global security director. The nominee will bring his police experience to the group's many security managers.

France
French government opposes extending reach of private security watchdog CNAPS to overseas

A confidential French government report is opposed to giving the private security watchdog CNAPS oversight of the activities of private security and defence service companies and security consultants' operating overseas.

France
French parliament to bolster nuclear security command

France's little-known specialised command for nuclear security, CoSSeN, which operates closely with domestic intelligence agency DGSI, is to be granted more powers under the new military programming law.

France
Former LVMH security chief Marcadier a pillar of ADIT's new anti-counterfeiting service

Despite being charged in connection with the Squarcini spying affair, in the wake of his departure from LVMH Laurent Marcadier has taken on a number of projects including the creation of a new anti-counterfeiting service at ADIT.

United States
Staff sue Louis Vuitton's New York security provider over unpaid overtime

Global Threat Solutions, the company that handled security for the French luxury giant's exhibition on New York's Madison Avenue, has been accused by a group of its employees of breaching US labour laws. They took the case to court earlier this month.

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
MPP protects LVMH again, 5 Stones minus Harrington, Nardello in Singapore

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, Miami and New York.

Paris MPP returns to protect LVMH

Miami Harrington flies solo again after 5 Stones

New York Nardello returns to Asia

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
Goron to supplant MPP at LVMH, GEOS in El Salvador, Jones joins Alvarez, EU sets up sanctions helpdesk, banking lobby fights financial crimes in EU

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, Brussels, Basel and Washington.

Paris Goron poised to take over from MPP as LVMH provider

Basel/Brussels Anti-money laundering banking lobby registers in EU

France GEOS heads to El Salvador for the EU

Washington Alvarez & Marsal ropes in investigations star Kenneth Jones

Brussels EU forks out €4m to help small businesses do due diligence

France
Accusations of hacking and tracking fly thick and fast in Veolia-Suez takeover battle

Suez's latest move, placing its water management operations in a foundation, comes as the company goes all out to fend off Veolia's advances. Both sides have launched a war of influence.

France
Jean-Louis Fiamenghi launches RfP for Veolia's investigations

Veolia security chief Jean-Louis Fiamenghi has invited a handful of [...]

France
Veolia airbrushes out Djouhri allies

Veolia is determinedly distancing itself from its former agent Alexandre [...]

France
Brazzaville and Malabo revive battles for influence in Paris amid coup accusations

Facing growing opposition at home, the regimes in Congo and Equatorial Guinea have accused French consultants from stirring up the unrest, a message that their lobbyists in Paris have been loudly conveying.

France, United States
Who is investigating Muddy Waters for Casino?

A video produced by short seller Muddy Waters and posted on November 5 by the Wall Street Journal (see here) [...]

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 [...]

France, Kazakhstan
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 [...]

France
The Fight Between Pinault and Arnault

The highly-publicized rivalry between French bosses Bernard Arnault from LVMH [...]

How LVMH protest-proofed its AGM in Paris

No fewer than three layers of protection were deployed to prevent protesters from disrupting LVMH's general meeting in the French capital on 20 April. The luxury giant's Paris headquarters on Avenue Montaigne had been stormed a week earlier by SUD Rail trade union activists.