Richard Westbury

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
Raven Special Risks, CIFAL, Riskology, Sibylline

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 and Tashkent.

LondonFormer Control Risks exec Michael Haughey returns from Singapore.

TashkentJoanna Golas keeps CIFAL's French networks in the loop.

LondonRiskology bows out after the death of co-founder.

Austin/LondonSibylline handles Apple's intelligence threats.

Europe
Belstone Dart's Somalian private security contract renewal upsets rivals

Belstone Dart International has been awarded the contract to protect EUCAP Somalia, according to our sources, in a deal that has caused much upset among other private security firms.

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
Othrys, Ercom, Hart Security, Risk&Co

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 and Paris.

LondonA TV producer at the helm of intelligence firm Othrys.

ParisErcom and Suneris made full Thales units with Cyril Autant appointment.

LondonHart Security to dispatch intelligence experts to UK's most at-risk embassies.

ParisRisk&Co brings ex-Amarante manager Dimitri Akarawitage to boost corporate security management line.

United Kingdom
The Foreign Office to invite bids for security and intelligence contracts at high-risk embassies

The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office's regular contractors for work of this kind are busy preparing their bids.

France, Germany, United States
AI company Augustus turns page in Paris after US woes

The German AI specialist is being sued by two former staff in the US.

France, Iraq
Laurent Wauquiez under close protection in Baghdad

According to our sources, Laurent Wauquiez, the head of France's Les Republicains political party, was protected by the private security [...]

Europe
Belstone Dart protects European diplomats in Mogadishu

According to Intelligence Online's sources, Belstone Dart International has been awarded the contract to protect EUCAP Somalia, the EU capacity-building [...]

Spotlight | Europe
Mediterranean a new nest for (private) spies

The long-standing base of any number of government intelligence agencies operating in the Middle East, the island is now becoming a thriving hub for private firms in the business.

Europe
Shortlist for EU security contract in Somalia

According to our sources, the European External Action Service (EEAS) has drawn up the list of companies that pre-qualify to [...]

Europe
EU Afghanistan private security contract gets political

The tender for the contract to protect the EU in Afghanistan continues to be a vexed affair. Over the past [...]

Europe
Mother of all battles starts for Kabul security contract

After months of keeping everybody on tenterhooks, the European External Action Service (EEAS) is about to put a contract to [...]

Iraq, United Kingdom
Kar Group finances Kurd-British relations

Kurdish conglomerate Kar Group was closely involved in organizing and financing a group of British MPs’ visit to Erbil on [...]

United Kingdom
Chelsea Group

Chelsea Group, the former Hart Integrated Solutions, the security firm [...]

United Kingdom
Chelsea Group

Chelsea Group, the former Hart Integrated Solutions, founded by Richard [...]

Afghanistan, United Kingdom
Olive Group

Olive Group, the private security company headed by brothers Chris [...]

Afghanistan, United Kingdom
Final quartet vie for Kabul embassy contract

According to our sources, the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) [...]

United Kingdom
Chelsea Group

Chelsea Group, as Richard Westbury's Hart Group, was recently renamed, [...]

United Kingdom
Hart, Kurds' sponsor in Westminster

According to our sources, Hart Integrated Solutions, the private security [...]

Canada
GardaWorld

GardaWorld, the international subsidiary of the Canadian security guard and [...]