Saudi Arabia
PIF engages corporate investigators to probe misspending at Neom

Saudi Arabia
PwC charged $200m annually for work at Saudi PIF's Neom prior to ban

Sources close to the Public Investment Fund's (PIF) audit of spending at Neom, the planned futuristic city in northwestern Saudi Arabia, say reporting to date has not addressed the scale of billing by western consultants at the site.

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
Irena hiring, Apus Intelligence and the Balkans, Geos defeated

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: every Wednesday, we report on events big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community.

ParisIrena boosts its team with private security veteran

London/TiranaA new Balkans boutique firm

ParisAfter losing out on EUCAP Somalia, Geos defeated at European Court of Justice

United Kingdom
The changing face of private intelligence, part 2: The clampdown on state clients

In light of the British government's heightened vigilance, private intelligence providers are withdrawing from the hazardous world of litigation support to former Soviet states. But the media fallout from these legal battles is still being felt today.

Iraq, United States
Rebuilding Iraq's financial system, part 1: K2 Integrity's ability to block international dollar payments prompts interference complaints

Not yet confirmed by the Iraqi government, K2's contract with the Central Bank of Iraq includes powers to verify, and decline, dollar payment requests made through a centralised platform. The new process has seen Iraqi financiers lamenting a lack of transparency.

Spotlight | Bahrain
Bahraini government enlists K2 Integrity on wide-ranging national oil company corruption investigation

Investigators at Jules Kroll's K2 Integrity spent a year investigating insider dealing at Bahrain's state oil group. Its findings were used last month to confirm the prosecution of a senior engineer at the group.

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
FBI/CIA veterans team in Boston, CT woos AUKUS clients, K2 receives French help to launch in Riyadh

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: every Wednesday, we report on events big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community.

BostonCIA and FBI veterans team up in Massachusetts

CanberraCT Group adviser Mark Carleton-Smith woos new defence clients for AUKUS

RiyadhFrench senior civil servant helps K2 Integrity set up shop in Saudi Arabia

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
Sastre, Kroll, HKA, JS Held, Guidepost

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: every Wednesday, we report on events big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community.

LondonEastern Europe-focused Sastre Consulting beefs up investigation practice

New YorkTom Bock goes with different Kroll

LondonNick Panes lands new role at HKA

LondonSofia Batchelor joins JS Held

New YorkGuidepost also works on Guo Wengui's case

United States
K2 investigates the world of beauty

The hair and skincare company Head Kandy claims that founder Kayla McNeill fraudulently billed it for lavish personal expenses. A K2 report the beauty company submitted itemized a long list of charges the investigative firm deemed to be improper, which McNeill denied.

United States
Succession crisis at K2 Integrity is straight out of 'Succession'

HBO has announced that its hit series "Succession" will return in early 2023. Those who can't wait can tune in to K2 Integrity, where a real life father-son drama starring Jules and Jeremy Kroll has led to internal strife, staff defections and US operations that are haemorrhaging money to the tune of $1m in losses per month, a well-placed source estimates.

Spotlight | United States
Kroll versus Kroll, the 2021 round

Kroll group has reopened old wounds dating to the creation of K2 with its latest attack on founder Jules Kroll before a US court on 10 November.

Spotlight | Mongolia, United States
K2 Integrity steps into Mongolian anti-corruption morass

Similar to the anti-corruption cases launched by Kazakhstan against out-of-favour oligarchs, K2 Integrity is helping the Mongolian president to investigate his political rivals ahead of elections in June.

France, United States
Olivier Hassid brings K2 to Paris

The former managing director of the French business security and safety directors club, the CDSE, and then PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) partner [...]

Saudi Arabia, United States
Deloitte and subcontractors spearhead probes against MbS' adversaires

Recent documents filed for court cases in Canada and the US by the Saudi authorities against the kingdom's former spymaster Saad Al Jabri reveal how the Saudi state entrusted its entire anticorruption probe to audit giant Deloitte.

United Kingdom
K2 lands new Tripoli contract

Fathi Bashagha, the interior minister of Libya's UN-recognised Government of National Unity (GNU), has commissioned Jules and Jeremy Kroll's corporate [...]

United Kingdom
Darren Matthews brings veteran Hassen to K2

Darren Matthews, who is busy reorganizing the Europe, Middle East and Africa's investigations & disputes practice at K2 Intelligence, has [...]