French intelligence services and financial prosecutors increase ties

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Anti-corruption agency pleads for closer collaboration with intelligence services 

During his hearing by the MPs from the parliamentary enquiry commission on foreign interference on 26 January, the head of the French Anti-Corruption Agency (AFA), Charles Duchaine, pleaded for greater collaboration with the intelligence services.

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French intelligence community seeks closer contact with justice ministry 

France's DGSE is leading a push by the intelligence community to have closer cooperation with - and more information from - the justice ministry.

French government takes back control of communications interception platform from Thales 

After having run into all sorts of problems since it struck up a major agreement with the electronics group in 2008, the French Ministry of Justice is to take judge-sanctioned communications interception back in-house in 2019 according to Intelligence Online's sources.