ALL ARTICLES - UNITED KINGDOM

• LONDON - Audere picks special forces captain

• GENEVA - The Red Cross's Lyon connection

• LONDON - Dentons' rich pickings at Alaco

BAE intelligence chief joins Brennan and Partners 

After ten years holding down the British defence giant's most secretive role, Andrew Cooper has moved into corporate diplomacy alongside Daniel Brennan, prominent barrister and former member of the UK parliament's Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy.

• SINGAPORE/NEW YORK - Stoneturn loses China-focused investigator

• LONDON - New firm linked to sports integrity pro Paul Beeby

• BRUSSELS - EU delegation to Pretoria boosts security

• LONDON - Dentons picks Adrian Stones
  

Franck Petitgas crowns London career with appointment as Sunak's adviser 

The French banker's new role as economic and business adviser to the UK prime minister Rishi Sunak caps a career in the City of London, where he has a solid network in financial, diplomatic and intelligence circles through the Legion d'Honneur.

• SYDNEY/NEW YORK - The investigator chasing a ghost investor

• PARIS - Public bank boosts export intelligence scope

• NEW YORK - Mintz still investigating Kossoff's downfall

• NEW YORK - Ex-Nardello CISO goes to Merck

• LONDON - Former FTI Barker moves to intelligence with Strix Varia

• KYIV/LARGO -  New Ukraine mission for US Army vet Parker

• KYIV/COPENHAGEN - Danish lobbyist Rud Pedersen sets up shop in Ukraine

After pledging £1bn for UK green energy, Saudi conglomerate Alfanar opens new London subsidiary 

The Almutlaq family conglomerate Alfanar, a key player in Saudi Arabia's energy and defence sectors, continues to build connections in London to protect its £1bn investment in the UK.

Bluelight Global Solutions investigators called in on decade-long Croatia vs MOL battle 

The London private investigation and security firm, which assists security agencies across the Commonwealth, has been working on a dispute between Hungarian energy giant MOL and the Croatian government that has raged for more than 10 years.

Kazakh opposition seeks to focus US Congress attention back on asset recovery 

A group of Kazakh opposition activists are trying to garner support in Washington for their fight to have sanctions imposed on business people close to ex-president Nursultan Nazarbayev.

• HOUSTON - Former Federal Reserve Board executive Christopher Laursen joins Straife
  

• PARIS - Bpifrance executive committee loses another member
  

• NEW YORK - Wells Fargo's Isabel Plasencia moves to Treliant

• WASHINGTON - Robert Lewis anchors The Van Aucker Group to Ankara again
  

• BRISTOL - Police inspector Mark Lemoir goes private

Welsh Water looks to get up to speed on hybrid warfare 

A British cybersecurity company has been called in by Welsh drinking water distributor Welsh Water to help it raise its awareness of the threat posed to water supplies by hybrid warfare-style attacks.

UK tax authorities pursue ENRC investigator 

The Quaestio investigations firm was critical to the team of lawyers and investigators that Kazakh mining conglomerate ENRC financed in its pursuit of star Dechert lawyer Neil Gerrard. But Quaestio is in HMRC's crosshairs after failing to pay taxes.

• LOS ANGELES - Lynx assists carpenters' brotherhood
  

• LONDON - New intelligence director at G3

• TOKYO - Cooper brings Japanese and Australian expertise to Hakluyt
  

• PARIS - EPEE joins ADIT

London leak at heart of Russian prosecutor's plan to capture FESCO assets 

A Russian court has used a London Court of International Arbitration decision to justify confiscating the assets of shipping giant FESCO, amid a four-year battle between its shareholders Ziyavudin Magomedov and Mikhail Rabinovich. The Russian prosecutor was not forthcoming about how he got his hands on the normally confidential ruling.

• WASHINGTON - Avisa investigative branch's managing director goes solo

• JERSEY CITY - New investigators for LTL round 2?

• LONDON/BERLIN - Hans-Jakob Schindler, German intelligence officer turned consultant

• LONDON/BELGRADE - Rio Tinto project in Serbia spurs activism

• OSLO - Norges Bank nearing finish line in selecting investigators

On the run from Mohammed bin Salman, King Abdullah's key arms broker finds refuge in Beirut 

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's investigators are still on the hunt for Salah Fustok, the main negotiator of arms contracts with the National Guard under King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz. The fugitive agent holds secrets about many Western defence companies' business dealings in Saudi Arabia.

Britain's National Cyber Force emerges from the shadows 

The UK's discreet and fast-growing National Cyber Force is destined to spearhead Britain's fight against its enemies in cyberspace. In a key document published this month, it takes steps to establish its own identity.

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.