Airbus Group

The European aircraft manufacturer Airbus has carved a place for itself internationally as an alternative to Boeing thanks to the success of the A330, the A350 and the A380. The company is a merger of French, German and Spanish aircraft makers. As well as its civil activity it has military projects such as Eurofighter Typhoon, in partnership with BAE Systems, the A400M transport aircraft and also combat and transport helicopters. The company also has space programmes.

KAZAKHSTAN 18/10/2017

Airbus' helicopter sales channels in Astana under scrutiny

The Kazakh-gate legal investigation underway in Paris has lifted the lid on the consultants Airbus used to get in with the government in Astana in 2009. [...]

SAUDI ARABIA 04/10/2017

Former airbus man joins Thales

Pascal Lesaulnier, who was a long-standing sales agent for Airbus [...]

FRANCERUSSIA 04/10/2017

Bokarev leads Alstom in Central Asia

Andrei Bokarev, the powerful Russian magnate who heads the rail company Transmashholding and is close to the Kremlin, is extending his influence into Central Asia, much to the benefit of his French partner Alstom. [...]

FRANCEUNITED KINGDOM 20/09/2017

PNF, SFO join forces on Oberthur probe

According to our sources, France's Parquet National Financier (PNF) and its British equivalent, the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), are working [...]

FRANCE 20/09/2017

Ichikowitz gets hands on last Mirage F1

The last four Mirage F1 left French soil at the beginning of September after their acquisition in June by the [...]

AFRICAUNITED ARAB EMIRATESFRANCE 06/09/2017

Couriol's offshore finance high-wire act for CAC 40 companies

Airbus in Mali, LVMH in Panama, Creduit Suisse on Russia: Olivier Couriol has been involved in some of the most audacious investment deals by major European companies. [...]

Spotlight FRANCE 23/08/2017

SFO, PNF Airbus probes: Former French PM comes to the rescue

Law firms and consulting firms have plenty to keep them occupied with the many anti-corruption investigations into the European aeronautical and defence group's business dealings. [...]

BELGIUMFRANCEKAZAKHSTAN 23/08/2017

Ablyazov's secret lobbying against Chodiev

According to our sources, Mukhtar Ablyazov, the dissident Kazakh oligarch, has been in contact with the Belgian parliamentary commission that [...]

Special report FRANCE 28/07/2017

Tom Enders drags Airbus Group into anti-corruption maelstrom

The top management of the Airbus Group is in a state of extreme schizophrenia. Chief executive Tom Enders, who has been engaged in a complete and sometimes brutal reorganization of [...]

Spotlight SAUDI ARABIAFRANCE 05/07/2017

French seek new negotiation channels for Saudi deals

Paris is looking to get back in with the Saudis after the flurry of deals that Riyadh has struck with the US in a blossoming relationship underscored by Donald Trump's visit last month. [...]

UNITED STATESEUROPE 05/07/2017

Sale of DigitalGlobe may cool GEOINT speculation

Canada's MDA is struggling to finalise its acquisition of DigitalGlobe while funds have also dried up for new companies in the GEOINT sector, suggesting a slowdown in what used to be a feverish marketplace. [...]

TURKEYEUROPE 21/06/2017

Airbus agent Necdet Ersoy ready to counter-attack

Necdet Ersoy, who was Airbus Group's agent in Turkey for many years, is threatening to take the company to court after his contract was abruptly axed by the export department. [...]

FRANCEUNITED KINGDOM 21/06/2017

Battle between jurisdictions over Airbus anti-corruption case

Airbus has years of anti-corruption investigations in front of it and is caught between different prosecution services that are having their own power struggles. [...]

Spotlight EUROPE 07/06/2017

SFO and PNF close in on Airbus

British and French anti-corruption probes targeting Airbus with applause from company CEO Tom Enders have put the group’s historic figures in the cross-hairs. [...]

FRANCEUNITED KINGDOM 24/05/2017

Lord Gold, serial Corporate monitor for airbus

David Gold, a Conservative peer who has been appointed to [...]

FRANCE 24/05/2017

DGSI and DGSE divided over Airbus

The row that has erupted over the British, French and American probes into Airbus Group is being handled very differently [...]

FRANCE 24/05/2017

Corporate intelligence firms jockey for position in Macron era

Several consulting and corporate intelligence companies have a direct line to the new French president - and hope to make hay out of it. [...]

KUWAIT 10/05/2017

Al Ghanim clan loses one of its best clients in Airbus

The local partner of numerous defence companies, Al Ghanim Group will no longer work for Airbus Group in Kuwait because of the European plane maker’s change of policy on using local agents. [...]

Spotlight SAUDI ARABIAUNITED KINGDOM 26/04/2017

Sauds back in favour at the White House

US generals now running US foreign policy under Trump have opened the door of the White House to Saudi Arabia, after eight years of Riyadh being shunned by the Obama administration. [...]

FRANCEIRAQ 26/04/2017

Vengeful ex and sour deal expose Lafont and DGSE

Jean-Philippe Lafont, who provides security services to a number of French companies in Iraq, is under attack on several fronts. [...]