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The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
Topaz Group, Legion of Honour in Hanoi, Troost vs Srivastava

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

ParisAmarante International's Arnaud Dessenne joins Heracles

HanoiFrench honour for Openasia boss

New YorkPrivate investigators facing exposure in Russian oil traders' battle

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
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

United States
Staff sue Louis Vuitton's New York security provider over unpaid overtime

Global Threat Solutions, the company that handled security for the French luxury giant's exhibition on New York's Madison Avenue, has been accused by a group of its employees of breaching US labour laws. They took the case to court earlier this month.

United States
Invisible Inc, Louis Vuitton's corporate investigator in counterfeiting case

The French luxury brand uses Invisible Inc, an Arizona-headquartered private investigations company, in its anti-counterfeiting operations.

Spotlight | France, UAE
Sylvain Vieujot, the richest Frenchman in Dubai, caught up in dynastic power struggle

Equitativa Group's Emirates REIT, one of the largest property trusts in the Gulf, is the subject of several investigations and a lawsuit from a former partner linked to Tahnoon bin Zayed. The business duo Vieujot-Mouquet, who are connected to MbZ, are also being closely watched.

China, Europe
Beijing Risk Control lands new contract to protect European diplomats

The security firm, headed by a former public security agent, is a partner to the European Union delegation in Beijing.

France, Iran
Chahram Becharat touts French luxury in Tehran

French luxury goods chief Bernard Arnault's Iranian former right-hand man is now working to help French companies establish a foothold in the new Iranian marketplace.

France
LVMH to hire new security chief

After appointing former Gendarmerie Colonel Pierre Talbert as security chief [...]

France
Vuitton hires art theft specialist

According to our sources, Gendarmerie Colonel Pierre Tabel was hired on December 31 to head security at Louis Vuitton, the [...]

France
Bernard Squarcini & Associates

According to information obtained by Intelligence Online, Bernard Squarcini, the former head of the DCRI, France’s internal intelligence service, is [...]

France
Arnault ties Hermes in knots

Bernard Arnault's surprise acquisition of a chunk of French luxury goods house Hermes has prompted a pitched battle between the LVMH mogul and the families at Hermes' helm.

France
Patrick Ouart

Secretary-general and ethics adviser at the French industrial and services [...]

United Kingdom
Kroll vs Penumbra: 2nd Round

The battle between Punumbra and Kroll that we revealed in our last issue (IOL 442) reportedly originated from an operation involving LVMH.