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RUSSIA International Dealmaking 25/11/2022

Sergey Shishkarev keeps eye on Russian cargo while looking for new foreign investors

Since heavyweights in the Gulf States stopped investing in sea transport in Russia - much to the dismay of logistics master Sergey Shishkarev -, Russian cargo is being sent to China. [...]

SINGAPORE TURKEY Surveillance & Interception 15/11/2022

Ikon, the new face of Turkish-Singaporean interception software specialist BTT

BTT, the Turkish software firm exposed in the Hacking Team leaks in 2015, has resurfaced as Ikon Arge Teknoloji thanks to a mysterious Singaporean partner. [...]

ISRAEL TURKEY Government Intelligence 11/11/2022

Behind the new deal between Turkey's MIT and the Mossad

With Israeli-Turkish diplomatic relations now fully restored, a reconciliation over intelligence sharing appears to have been sealed as well. Turkish intelligence services and the Mossad recently discreetly signed an understanding aimed largely at allowing Tel Aviv to track down Iranian cells in Turkey. [...]

ISRAEL UNITED KINGDOM UNITED STATES Corporate Intelligence 03/11/2022

Soriano and Psy-Group, revealed during RussiaGate, team up again

To promote his new compliance services for investors, Israeli private investigator Walter Soriano has called on former staffers from the defunct intelligence firm Psy-Group. Both parties were identified in a US Congress investigation as having worked for Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. [...]

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INDIA UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNITED STATES International Dealmaking 24/10/2022

Indo-Emirati Next Orbit Ventures at centre of Indian semiconductor battle

Through its acquisition of Israel's Tower, US giant Intel has found an ally in the UAE-Indian investment firm connected to the ruling family in Abu Dhabi. Next Orbit Ventures is looking to snag some of the massive budget India has earmarked to develop its semiconductor industry, vital in the China-US trade wars. [...]

CHAD FRANCE ISRAEL Surveillance & Interception 21/10/2022

NSO's man in Chad, Abdellatif Ramadan, scouts for new French contacts

With Israel cracking down on exports, Chadian businessman Abdellatif Ramadan, who is assisting his country's intelligence services as they expand, has turned to France. [...]

KAZAKHSTAN UNITED ARAB EMIRATES International Dealmaking 13/10/2022

Tahnoon bin Zayed's Kazakh networks boost opportunities for G42

President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev is keen to draw more on the Emirati firm Group 42's AI tools in building his security apparatus. The business networks built by his predecessor come in handy, even though he is trying to reduce their influence. [...]

SYRIA Government Intelligence 06/10/2022

Syrian Democratic Forces' administration losing steam in northeast

Despite signs the Autonomous Administration is in full swing, the Syrian Democratic Forces struggle to maintain local support. Fortunately for Damascus, more and more are looking for the regime to return to the area. [...]

RUSSIA Corporate Intelligence 30/09/2022

Russian asset recovery agency comes into the US's firing line

After several months of suspense, Russia's Deposit Insurance Agency now faces the threat of action by the West against its activities as an administrator of bankrupt banks and recoverer of supposedly misappropriated assets. Its general director has been placed on the US sanctions list. [...]

SpotlightCHINA ITALY UNITED STATES International Dealmaking 20/09/2022

Beijing's shadow hangs over Silk-Faw, the luxury car production mega-project

The major project to build a giant Chinese-owned electric car production plant in Italy is in the process of being derailed, but it benefitted from the activism of Zhu Yuhua, a businessman who is well-acquainted with Beijing's circles of power. [...]

SpotlightUKRAINE Surveillance & Interception 15/09/2022

Ukraine aims to become independent in geospatial intelligence

Ukraine, which is still dependent on the United States and its allies for geospatial intelligence, is striving to become more independent in this area, which is becoming a priority for the country's security services. [...]

SpotlightCHINA Government Intelligence 05/09/2022

Influence wars intensify at top of CCP in run-up to National Congress

With a stream of leaks and counter-leaks, Premier Li Keqiang's supporters appear to be conducting a major information offensive to curb President Xi Jinping's ambitions. [...]

LEBANON UNITED STATES Corporate Intelligence 30/08/2022

Spymaster Abbas Ibrahim suffers further setback in US over Fakhoury affair

A US court has denied a request from Lebanon's intelligence chief Abbas Ibrahim to withdraw the paragraph incriminating him in a complaint filed by the family of Amer al-Fakhoury. This makes his relations with Washington all the more awkward, despite him having some well-placed supporters there. [...]

ASIA RUSSIA International Dealmaking 26/08/2022

Lavina Pulse, Russia's "Cambridge Analytica", is looking to export its services to South East Asia

Lavina Pulse, which is always ready to offer its influence skills to election candidates, is looking to expand into Asia. [...]

TURKEY Surveillance & Interception 18/08/2022

How Erdogan commandeered Turkey's cyber industry

As he approaches his 20th year in power, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is consolidating his control of Turkey's cyber ecosystem. The sector has certainly gained in industrial efficiency but entrepreneurs have lost out on autonomy. [...]

BELARUS Government Intelligence 29/07/2022

KGB keeps @Lebiadok behind bars

On 12 July, a specialist in the Russian and Belarusian military-industrial complex was quietly taken into custody in Minsk. The extension of his detention beyond the 15 days prescribed by law makes it seem likely he will face administrative or criminal prosecution, probably related to his work as an expert. [...]

EUROPE ISRAEL Government Intelligence 20/07/2022

Mossad trains European intel agents in open-source spy tools analysis

Israel's secret service has launched a special programme to train European agents to tap the huge potential of open-source investigation tools to boost their recruitment and intelligence-gathering capacities. [...]

RUSSIA UNITED STATES Corporate Intelligence 15/07/2022

Russian banks pursue the assets of Mints magnate family in New York

Two Russian banks have secured an application in a New York court to obtain discovery for use in foreign proceedings from three US-based finance groups, in the latest step of their campaign to track down assets held by their exiled former shareholders. [...]

FRANCE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES International Dealmaking 04/07/2022

TotalEnergies and ADNOC push for French-UAE investors high committee

During Mohammed bin Zayed's visit to Paris in July, the two countries will launch a business and investors club aimed at revitalising their bilateral economic ties and finding tools best suited to their respective markets. [...]

FRANCE GERMANY ISRAEL SINGAPORE UNITED STATES Surveillance & Interception 30/06/2022

The Tech Times: Sekoia at centre of CTI, Joel Bork joins Conquest Cyber, Günter Heiss leaves Labyrinth, Group-IB loses cyber chief, Hytera without consultant

From SIGINT to GEOINT and OSINT and a dose of cyber, each week we report on events both big and small that matter in the community of technical intelligence providers. [...]

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Sergey Shishkarev keeps eye on Russian cargo while looking for new foreign investors

Ikon, the new face of Turkish-Singaporean interception software specialist BTT

Behind the new deal between Turkey's MIT and the Mossad