United Kingdom, United States
Mintz investigators also probing short seller Fraser Perring

United Kingdom
British private spies and a fund under attack join forces against their short-seller enemy

Intelligence firm Audere Group has landed new funding from a financial services company known to have been targeted by a well-known UK short seller, Viceroy Research.

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
Darroch dines with Audere, Hakluyt, Iremos, ex-Optima

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: every Wednesday, we report on events big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community.

LondonKim Darroch dines with Audere

ChicagoEx-CIA officer and former Biden briefer takes seat at Hakluyt

ParisIremos purchase brings ChapsVision closer to Unibail

LondonOptima founder starts new chapter in defence sector

Estonia, Ukraine, United Kingdom
British private spies angle for Ukraine reconstruction opportunities

A number of consultants specialised in private security and corporate intelligence in Ukraine are also positioning themselves for contracts to rebuild the country. They include current and former executives of UK firm Audere.

Spotlight | Russia, United Kingdom
Same contractor provided CT Group with allegedly forged records in three London High Court disputes

Treated as a star source by senior executives, a former Eastern European spy now living in Russia provided the investigations firm with bank statements, database excerpts and real estate valuations. All have been labelled forgeries in High Court litigation.

United Kingdom
Investigation firm Audere on high alert as it tries to fend off attacks from its nemesis

While still having to contend with a major staff turnover, the private investigation and security firm Audere is now having to defend itself from attacks in the media and on X from its foes embroiled in the Steward Healthcare short-selling scandal.

United States
Short-seller Cohodes accuses ex-MiMedx CEO of defaming him in new book

Marc Cohodes has filed a lawsuit accusing the former CEO of biotech company MiMedx Parker Petit of defaming him in a new book about his career.

United States
In Chicago, new round between short-selling company Viceroy and corporate intelligence firms

Viceroy is seeking documents from an accountancy firm to prove that its 2023 reports of fraud at Medical Properties Trust were true. Steward Healthcare, MPT's accomplice in the fraud, is said to have hired Audere to monitor the short seller's co-founder, Fraser Perrings.

Spotlight | United States
Mintz Group and Peter Barakett roped into short-seller saga

Short-seller Marc Cohodes alleges that several corporate intelligence firms were involved in efforts to surveil him while he investigated an alleged accounting fraud at biotech firm MiMedx.

Spotlight | United Kingdom, United States
Kroll ready to do battle with Wirecard's short sellers

The short sellers who brought down Wirecard have now turned their attention to Kroll, which will need to defend the legitimacy of the investigation work and surveillance it carried out for the German financial services giant.

Spotlight | United Kingdom, United States
Wirecard, Adani, NMC: private investigators gain from short-selling explosion

The twists and turns of the Wirecard affair and the recent stock crash of India's Adani have highlighted that, in the short-selling world, private investigation firms can either be on the side of the attacker or the target.

Germany
Wirecard case highlights German financial intelligence weaknesses

Germany's once discreet Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) is currently in the full glare of the limelight. Not only has the [...]