China, France
China: Airbus holds out to ex-agents

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
KCS plays football, Straife turns to the Caucasus, Gourdault-Montagne stays in Beijing

Appointments, financial results, new contracts, in London, Houston, Paris and Beijing... every week, we report on the events big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community.

London KCS gets in the game with new football investigations' unit

Houston Straife poaches Croissant as it prospects in Caucasus

Paris/Beijing Diplomat consultant Gourdault-Montagne extends China stay

China, Europe, United States
Chinese blind spots in global Airbus anti-corruption probe

Britain's SFO and its French equivalent, the PNF, split the regions targeted in the Airbus corruption investigation between them. But Chinese contracts drew the attention of both the PNF and the DoJ.

Europe
What the SFO is looking for at Airbus

Skeletons are tumbling out of the closet at the European aircraft manufacturer amid an anti-corruption probe by the UK's Serious Fraud Office.

Spotlight | Europe
Enders takes hatchet to Airbus' sales ops

Caught up in a row over commission with one of its former sales agents in China, Airbus is determined not to find itself in the same situation in the future. To protect the European aircraft and defence company going forward, [.

China, France
Airbus shuts down "Bullshit Castle"

The European defence company has severed its ties with an array of export agents and is to close the international department that used to deal with them.

Europe, Turkey
Airbus in new corruption scandal

The Turkish government is investigating the alleged payment of illegal kickbacks to Turkish officials by Airbus Helicopters, the former Eurocopter. [...]

Hong Kong
Dilsat Atus, Airbus' Uighur go-between

According to our sources, Dilsat Atus, a Chinese Uighur businessman, is now Airbus' main consultant on sales to China. Atus worked for many years with two consultants now taking legal action against the company.

Turkey
Okan Tapan, Airbus' discreet Turkish agent

A key intermediary for several oil traders in the Caucasus and Central Asia, Okan Tapan has also worked for many years for Airbus, the former EADS, in Turkey and China.

China, France, Japan
Paris' business ambassadors go east

Maurice Gourdault Montagne and Thierry Dana, France's new ambassadors in China and Japan, have extensive business experience.

China, France
Airbus's Chinese problem

The Airbus group, formerly EADS, is being asked for huge sums by its former Chinese commercial agents.