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The Intelligence Gazette
SVR, Tracfin, Romanian cyber, French prison intelligence

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community from Moscow to Paris and Washington.

RussiaSVR awards artists' prize.

FranceTracfin places focus on transparency

USWashington provides close cyber support to Romania

FrancePrison intelligence struggling

Ireland, United Kingdom
Irish Data Protection Commission beefs up technical investigation capacities with help from private sector

The regulator, which has come under attack for not being tougher with the US tech giants, has teamed with a British forensics expert and four international accounting firms to bolster its investigations.

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
Raedas, FTI, Montrose, Casale, 5 Stones

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: each week, we report on events both big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community. This week we go to London, Paris, New York and Miami.

LondonRaedas passes the Covid test.

ParisFTI brings in Karl Payeur to turn round its investigations business.

LondonMontrose germinates in Germany thanks to super-diplomat Michael Schaefer.

New YorkCasale moves from FBI anti-corruption unit into pharmaceuticals.

Miami-ParisFormer DEA Paris bureau chief joins 5 Stones.

France
Arrest of French cybersecurity agency volunteer calls cyber ransom negotiation into question

As in the "real world", the payment of ransoms in cyberspace is of concern to governments and insurance companies, as the recent arrest of a French 'ethical' hacker has highlighted.

Europe
FATF guidance on crypto-assets opens path for crypto compliance specialists

By calling for stricter compliance requirements, the Financial Action Task Force's latest recommendations should see more traditional finance investors turn to crypto-assets by reducing legal uncertainty. It will also open the playing field for crypto-assets compliance specialists to rival established compliance specialists.

France
FTI's French investigations team falls apart

FTI Consulting is the latest in a string of big US and British firms to fail in the French marketplace. With the departure of its head of investigations, Stéphanie Lhomme, the Parisian consulting firm has been turned upside down.

Kazakhstan, United States
Alvarez & Marsal caught up in Kazakh campaign against oligarch Anatol Stati

Still looking to challenge the arbitration ruling in favour of Moldavian oligarch Anatol Stati, the Kazakh government is attacking its former consultants, while deploying experts to weaken Stati's position.

United Kingdom, United States
FTI's dissolved forensics league regroups at Ankura

Announced on 20 October as a series of individual recruitments, the addition to Ankura's team of technical experts and legal advisers in fact signals the divorce between FTI Consultants and Paul Walker's investigators is now final.

United States
Quinlan on lookout for more investigators

After taking on a number of new recruits in April, the intelligence firm led by former journalist Paul Quinlan is scouring the market for new investigators.

United States
Now a consultant, Douglas London settles score with CIA in book

The former CIA National Clandestine Service official has published an incisive and critical book on the agency.

Belarus, Lebanon
Abdo Romeo Abdo, the Lebanese businessman housing Minsk's elite

The happy new owner of MTBank, which he bought off oligarch Alexei Oleksin now under EU sanctions, has managed to elbow himself into Minsk's tight-knit elite business circle thanks to some powerful alliances.

Saudi Arabia, United States
DoJ will not help former Saudi spymaster Al Jabri

The defence team of the former counterterrorism adviser to former interior minister Mohammed bin Nayef had been hoping for US support. But the Department of Justice will ultimately stay out of Al Jabri's fight against entities controlled by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Spotlight | Russia, United States
EY report helps Moscow property developer Terra Invest win discovery application in New York

A New York court recently agreed to a discovery procedure in a bitter US-Russian legal dispute over a failed property development project in Moscow. A report by EY was instrumental to the application's success.

Iraq, United Kingdom
After training Africa's civil servants, Crown Agents to lecture Iraqi military

British international development company Crown Agents has been awarded a contract by the Foreign Office to train Iraqi army officers.

Saudi Arabia, United States
What US trial could spell for Saudi spymaster Al Jabri's many businesses

As the Deloitte investigators have found, several well-established cybersecurity firms are strongly linked to Saad Al Jabri, the man who once led Saudi Arabi's fight against terrorism and is now being pursued by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's teams.

United Kingdom
Wallbrook bolsters his advisory board

Ian Barclay's corporate intelligence firm Wallbrook has enlisted the legal expertise of Sarah de Gay in London and James Aquilina in the United States.

France
Alvarez & Marsal strengthens its Paris investigations team

Consulting and investigations firm Alvarez & Marsal is recruiting in France, with arbitration courts in its line of sight.

Spotlight | Canada, Saudi Arabia, United States
Al Jabri comes under fire from Deloitte in Boston despite support from Cofer Black

The team of lawyers and investigators trying to track down the assets of former Saudi master spy Saad Al Jabri's assets has opened a new front in Massachussetts. They are increasingly relying on the findings of an investigation carried out by audit group Deloitte.