ALL ARTICLES - SWITZERLAND

• LONDON - Audere picks special forces captain

• GENEVA - The Red Cross's Lyon connection

• LONDON - Dentons' rich pickings at Alaco

• PARIS - Amarante looks for risks facing the AFD

• LONDON/WASHINGTON - Hakluyt's springtime recruits and fresh funds
  

• ZURICH - Brasidas taps into Schillings talent pool
  

• HONG KONG - JS Held closes local office
  

• CAMBRIDGE - Activists target Charles River Associates
  

• GENEVA - Nick Day drops Diligence brand name
  

• PARIS - Parly goes into consultancy
  

• PARIS/LONDON - GoodCorporation taps into anti-corruption sector
  

• NEW YORK - StoneTurn makes UK cuts
  

• LONDON - Former Cameron strategist helps FGS and Sanctuary

• CHICAGO/SACRAMENTO - JS Held waves bye to branches
  

Private diplomats position themselves for mediation roles in Russia-Ukraine war 

Private mediation specialists are poised and waiting for Russia and Ukraine to give in to battle fatigue and come to the negotiating table.

Cyber financial investigations specialist Cybera strengthens its intelligence team 

Young Swiss financial cybercrime specialist Cybera has been bringing in new advisers to strengthen its technical and export capacities.

Huawei's French strategic affairs director heads to CyberPeace Institute in Geneva 

Adding to its line-up of senior Western cyber experts, the NGO CyberPeace Institute, of which Microsoft is a major donor, has hired Huawei executive and former French special forces officer Vincent de Crayencour.

Athena Intelligence investigates in Gulf Petrochem oil trader wars 

The Swiss corporate intelligence firm conducted a probe for Italian bank UniCredit in an oil dispute that was part of a much bigger fraud scheme involving Gulf Petrochem.

Axel Krueger, Swiss adviser for oil traders, in Gazprombank's sights 

Veteran mining and oil industry consultant and financier Axel Krueger is caught up in a legal battle in London where his business partner, oil trader Mourat Seitnepesov, is being sued by the Luxembourg subsidiary of Russia's Gazprombank, recently targeted by British sanctions.

• LONDON - Ex-Aegis Armstrong launches Horatius Advisory.

• GENEVA - Athena Intelligence makes crypto debut.

• LONDON - Control Risks has limited 2021 damage by cost cutting.
  

Corporate raider Nat Rothschild exposes his relationship with Indian ex-hacker Rajat Khare 

Financier Nat Rothschild, a member of the British branch of the Rothschild family, has taken over an Indian IT company in partnership with Rajat Khare, well-known to readers of Intelligence Online as an Indian "hack for hire" pioneer.

Kazakh oligarchs fly off on holiday to escape the protests 

The unrest in Kazakhstan has led former President Nursultan Nazarbayev's inner circle and the country's oligarchs to fly out of the country in the hope that calm will soon be restored.

Jihad Analytics tries to break into open source intelligence market 

Swiss company Jihad Analytics, which was set up by a former employee of the French armed forces ministry, aims to keep jihadist organisations under surveillance by using the open source data they put out. It will attempt to carve out a niche for itself on a jihadism-focused open source intelligence (OSINT) market, where there is already strong competition.

Tracked by Kyiv, Kolomosiky clan cuts exposure in Switzerland 

As Gazprom share prices yo-yo, Larissa Chertoka, sister to the Ukrainian oligarch Igor Kolomoisky, has been gradually paring back her Swiss assets down, while preserving her luxury concierge business in Geneva.

ZeNPulsar enters fake news fight with help from Kalita Partners 

The newcomer has nudged its way into the increasingly competitive counter-disinformation sector. One of its executives who hails from Kalita, Alexander Pisemskiy, also co-founded the Russian cybersecurity firm Group-IB.

Gunvor's general counsel Leclercq spearheads response to anti-corruption probe 

The compliance team at Gunvor has swung into action after the Swiss prosecution service opened an anti-corruption investigation into the company last month.