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Bernard Squarcini

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
JS Held works for oil firm, investigators open doors in Ukraine, LVMH safety doubts

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

SingaporeOil firm calls on JS Held sleuths

London/Kyiv/LvivUkrainian investigators fund visit by British MPs

ParisSquarcini lawsuit and job ad raise questions over LVMH security
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France, Libya
Sarkozy trial over alleged Libyan funding set to expose workings of private intelligence and French spy agencies

The world of private intelligence has come to the fore in the case of the Libyan regime's alleged financing of Nicolas Sarkozy's 2007 election campaign. Declassified material that will emerge in the French ex-president's trial in January will also shed light on relations between French intelligence agencies and Muammar Gaddafi's regime.

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Nicolas Sarkozy and Muammar Gaddafi at the Élysée Palace on 12 December 2007.

Spotlight | France
With LVMH-Squarcini indictment, epic battles that once raged in French corporate intelligence come to the fore

The charges brought by the French public prosecutor in December in the trial of former domestic intelligence boss turned consultant Bernard Squarcini paint an informative picture of French corporate intelligence. The ex-spy chief's firms, which were contracted by some of France's biggest companies, are now all trying to shed that cumbersome legacy.

LogoSubscribers only Corporate Intelligence 18.01.2023
The former head of French domestic intelligence, Bernard Squarcini.

Spy Way of Life | France
Café Max, cherished hangout of French corporate security directors, changes ownership

Across the globe, spies gather in inconspicuous dens, where they meet contacts and hold discreet conversations. This week, Intelligence Online visited Café Max, a favourite Parisian haunt of retired spies and senior police officers now running the security departments of France's largest companies, or working as corporate investigators.

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Café Max in Paris (7th arrondissement).

Insiders | Iran, UAE, United States
Thomas Kaplan, the billionaire pushing Abu Dhabi's interests in the Middle East

By turns a mining entrepreneur, art collector, and protector of endangered animal species, the Swiss-American billionaire Thomas Kaplan is becoming an ever-closer associate of Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan (MbZ). In early 2019, Kaplan has been showing his collection of Dutch art at the Louvre Abu Dhabi museum, only two years after Mohammed bin Zayed personally appointed him to head the International Alliance for the Protection of Heritage in Conflict Areas (ALIPH).

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Thomas Kaplan pushes Abu Dhabi's interests in the Middle East.

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