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Spotlight | Argentina, India, United Kingdom, United States
Hack for hire and Panama Papers: FBI bid to extradite Israeli investigator awakens Elliott's Argentine ghosts

Private investigator Amit Forlit's extradition hearing for alleged hacking in the US is causing concern in the corporate intelligence community of which he has been a key figure over the past decade.

United Kingdom, United States
CT Group sees Russian litigation funder's hand behind legal woes

The funder of Russian litigation in London A1 is keeping watch on a court case in which CT Group is being asked to provide the source of its intelligence. The communication and investigations firm led by Lynton Crosby was asked once before to provide proof in a separate case.

Spotlight | United States
The Bidens' accuser and FBI informant appears linked to fraud schemes

Former FBI informant Alexander Smirnov not only made contacts with Russian intelligence officers, but he also seems to have extensive business ties with individuals accused of securities fraud.

United States
SeerAI start-up eyes US agencies' growing climate intelligence needs

With climate intelligence now a political priority for the United States, GEOINT industry veteran Jeremy Fand is stepping up plans to develop his spatial temporal analytics and data fusion start-up.

Spotlight | United States
SPAC Chain Bridge implosion threatens to dash intelligence officers' dreams

Retired officials with the CIA, MI6, DIA and Pentagon have key roles with Chain Bridge I, which is bleeding cash. The fund's top executives include veterans of CIA-linked venture capital firm In-Q-Tel and several ex-intelligence operatives who currently work for Beacon Global Strategies.

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
Tikehau , Nardello, Alaco, Avisa

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

Paris/LondonFrench fund Tikehau invests in UK corporate intelligence with Antithesis

Los AngelesWendy Wu joins Nardello's expanding California office

London/New YorkFormer FBI agent Robert Heuchling anchors Alaco in the US

ParisAvisa bolsters its ethics committee

France, United States
Crypto investigator Chainalysis keen for more from French market

With its software already used on cryptocurrency investigations by the French justice, interior and armed forces ministries, the US provider is now targeting France's private sector.

Russia
Jet Infosystems, the Kremlin's all-terrain IT supplier

The Moscow-based firm, which even operates in foreign military theatres, nurtures its security networks through its chief lobbyist, Vadim Shustov.

China, Ukraine
In Kyiv, Chinese state security conveys Beijing's offer to mediate

The Guoanbu is continuing behind-the-scenes negotiations in Kyiv to try to convince the US and the EU to negotiate with Russia and Ukraine, along the lines of six-party talks used for North Korea.

Japan, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Vision Fund turns to Heptagone and Kroll

Caught up in internal power struggles that were revealed by [...]