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Malaysian defence minister to prospect in Ankara for new submarine contract

Kuala Lumpur and Ankara are set to sign off on a contract for the Malaysian armed forces to acquire littoral mission ships built by Turkey's STM. Beyond this symbolic deal, the prospect of acquiring submarines could also be up for discussion.

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Priority on foreign interference, Malaysia-China secret maritime deal, new adviser to France's CNCTR

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community.

AustraliaGovernment increases spending on fight against foreign interference and financial intelligence

China/MalaysiaKuala Lumpur and Beijing's discreet South China Sea agreement

FranceEx-adviser to Macron's Renaissance party joins CNCTR commission

Leonardo's huge Malaysia helicopter deal still not sewn up

The Italian defence group will have to be patient before celebrating its new helicopter contract with the Malaysian government, which has been forced to delay the announcement because of various obstacles.

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MEIO left out, Hezbollah ties, changes at Pentagon, purges in Beijing

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community.

France/MalaysiaMalaysian intelligence feels cold shoulder from Paris

FranceNo French nationality for Hezbollah-linked CEA researcher

United StatesPentagon's new data-savvy intelligence boss

ChinaCCP prepares to expel Qin Gang and Li Shangfu

Malaysian 1MDB scandal has created many career opportunities in private investigation

The 1MDB scandal, the subject of a recent documentary, has mobilised private investigation firms all over the world for a decade.

Switzerland's EAS Solutions targets Asian markets

Swiss newcomer EAS Solutions has teamed up with Malaysian distributor Mirai to market its IMSI catchers.

Huawei gets back into 5G thanks to its local connections and indirect US help

The Malaysian government's decision to allow Huawei back into its 5G roll-out programme, which has angered American and European foreign policy-makers, was facilitated by intense lobbying by the Chinese group and favourable circumstances, largely created by Washington.

Leonardo and Airbus wage battle for Malaysian skies

Competition for the helicopter market in Malaysia is ramping up with the arrival of a local newcomer backed by Airbus, which is upsetting the monopoly previously enjoyed by Leonardo's local partner, Weststar.

UK cyber experts devour Malaysian threat intelligence opportunities

British cyber capacity-building specialists have recently signed a slew of partnerships in Kuala Lumpur, spurred on by Malaysia's growing appetite for threat intelligence technology.

How the Mossad outsources covert operations to its Malaysian agents

The Mossad's attempt to run covert operations in Malaysia from Israel has recently been publicly exposed as a failure. It also unwittingly disclosed how it recruits, trains and remotely controls cells of local agents.

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Naval Group and Rheinmetall contracts caught up in Malaysian anti-corruption audit

Intelligence Online has seen the full audit report - not the redacted public version - on Naval Group's corvette sale programme to the Royal Malaysian Navy. The report focuses on financial dealings between the BNS shipyard and Germany's Rheinmetall Group, but a secret section looks at potential corrupt practices in ancillary contracts that followed the sale of submarines in 2002.

Europe, Turkey and Japan vie for Malaysian gas

To avoid dependency on Russian gas amid economic sanctions and the halt to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project, European, Turkish and Japanese diplomats have been tasked to see what extent they can source LNG from Malaysia's Petronas, the world's fifth largest producer.

DefTech resurfaces thanks to Mahathir

After some lean years, Syed Mokhtar Al Bukhary, who is close to Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, may become a key partner for foreign companies again.

French defence companies stick with Weststar

The local partner of most of France's major defence companies when Najib Abdul Razak was in office, Weststar is still a key element in their commercial apparatus.