Spotlight | Kuwait, United Kingdom, United States
Gloves come off as investigators pile into Kuwait's Port Fund scandal

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Raedas, FTI, Montrose, Casale, 5 Stones

London
Raedas passes the Covid test.

Paris
FTI brings in Karl Payeur to turn round its investigations business.

London
Montrose germinates in Germany thanks to super-diplomat Michael Schaefer.

New York
Casale moves from FBI anti-corruption unit into pharmaceuticals.

Miami-Paris
Former DEA Paris bureau chief joins 5 Stones.

United Kingdom
Raedas muscles up in forensics accounting

Business intelligence group Raedas has recruited forensics veteran David Lawler to strengthen its position in the growing market for these invesitigations.

United Kingdom
Gummer garners support for gambling charity

Former Conservative MP and parliamentary undersecretary for immigration Seema Kennedy is joining Peter Gummer, Lord Lord Chadlington, at Action Against [...]

United Kingdom
MPs have reservations about National Security and Investment Bill

In a critical report on Britain's National Security and Investment Bill (NSIB) published on 19 January, Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee [...]

United Kingdom
Ignat Ostantin, Russian OSINT expert, joins Raedas

Open source investigation, very popular with NGOs and highly visible on Twitter and other social media in recent years, is now being taken up by the private investigation world.

United Kingdom
Adamescu consultants' findings dismissed by court

A London court rejected submissions from consultants working for Romanian businessman Bogdan Alexander Adamescu, along with his appeal against what [...]

United Kingdom
Scarlett and Carlile exit extradition

Partners in the consulting and intelligence firm SC Strategy, Lord [...]

United Kingdom
Super-investigator-for-hire Walton to clean reputations from spying smears

Businessman Christopher Chandler is still locked in a courtroom battle in DC with investigator Donald Berlin, of Investigative Consultants Inc [...]

United Kingdom
Top experts advise Tom Tugendhat's China Research Group

A lobby group against Beijing led by MPs Tom Tugendhat and Neil O'Brien has mobilised the cream of Britain's China specialists.

United Kingdom
Cyber veteran Tremlett joins Atkins

Andrew Tremlett, a former cyber official at the British Ministry [...]

Belgium
After Cameron success, VSSE looks to make bigger splash internationally

While Belgium's State Security Service, or VSSE, is relishing being [...]

Europe, Germany
European Gulf PR galaxy surfaces in Germany

The dubious CV claims of lobbyists operating in Germany and other parts of Europe for Gulf clients have drawn unwelcome attention to a community more used to operating behind the scenes.

United States
AlixPartners jumps into corporate intelligence with Freeh

Consulting firm AlixPartners' acquisition of former FBI chief Louis Freeh's [...]

United Kingdom
Carlile teams with tech specialist Raj Sandhu

Alexander Carlile, Baron Carlile of Berriew, a partner in SC [...]

United Kingdom
Raedas beefs up African practice

To date predominantly focused on the Russian and Arab speaking [...]

United Kingdom
James Arbuthnot goes from Scarlett to Maclay

Lord James Arbuthnot, the former defence minister under John Major [...]

United Kingdom, United States
Tricuro and Ross Gow help Russia in Kuwait

The reputation protection firm Tricuro has taken a contract work [...]

France, Iraq, Kuwait
Orange and Agility's battle with Barzani's telecoms company gets political

The two companies want to use diplomatic channels between Iraq, Lebanon, and the United Arab Emirates to pin down businessman Raymond Rahmeh, a key figure in the case.

United Kingdom
Scarlett, Carlile without Arbuthnot

In accounts published on June 4, SC Strategy, the firm founded by John Scarlett, the former head of the Secret [...]

Hong Kong
David Richards advises Apache Asia

According to our sources, the former Chief of the Defence Staff of the British armed forces, David Richards, Baron Richards [...]

Iraq, United Kingdom
Raedas supports Agility's battle against Barzani networks

According to our sources, the corporate intelligence firm Raedas Consulting, founded by former GPW executives Andrew Wordsworth, Nicholas Bortman and [...]

United Kingdom
Scarlett and Carlile Get into extradition consulting

John Scarlett, the former head of the Secret Intelligence Service [...]

United Kingdom
Carlile and Scarlett on Gulen's trail ?

Lord Alexander Carlile paid a discreet visit to Ankara on April 3-6 at the invitation of the Turkish pressure group [...]