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Franck Petitgas crowns London career with appointment as Sunak's adviser 

The French banker's new role as economic and business adviser to the UK prime minister Rishi Sunak caps a career in the City of London, where he has a solid network in financial, diplomatic and intelligence circles through the Legion d'Honneur.

• PARIS - Former officer Mai-Linh Camus heads into consultancy

• LONDON - Anwar Darkazally wants corporate intelligence to go green

• LONDON - Sibylline keeps hiring

• LONDON - BAE and Lord Powell part ways

French defence leaders keen to keep the ball rolling with India 

With New Delhi's gaze still turned towards France after its acquisition of Dassault Rafales, Air Liquide, Safran, Naval Group, Thales and others are hoping for more business in India. The French Ministry of Armed Forces has all its attention focused on this window of opportunity.

Bristol Engineering Service, the Pakistani deep state's Emirati relay 

The Dubai-based company led by businessman Majjid Bashir Ahmed serves as one of the Pakistani deep state's offshore tools. It helps connect Islamabad's defence industry with foreign buyers and contributes to the country's stock of foreign military equipment.

French defence companies pick their way through obstacle course in Jakarta 

Foreign defence companies have their work cut out in an Indonesian defence market rife with political rivalry and corruption allegations.

W1, new Washington outfit of David Tinsley, American 'fixer' of the SFO 

Described by a British court as the "fixer" between the Serious Fraud Office and UnaOil in one of the most sensitive corruption cases that the British anti-corruption authority has faced, the US private investigator David Tinsley has welcomed the attention to open a new firm close to the US anti-corruption authorities.

Agents prepped for Leonardo's return to India 

The lifting of India's ban on Italian defence giant Leonardo on 12 November has sparked all of the providers and partners it had in the country back into action.

Raedas muscles up in forensics accounting 

Business intelligence group Raedas has recruited forensics veteran David Lawler to strengthen its position in the growing market for these invesitigations.

Dassault, Airbus tiptoe through anti-corruption minefield on Indonesian deals 

A number of ambitious military deals with Jakarta are on the agenda. But they are being hampered by anti-corruption investigations.

Al Nahyans' Royal Diamond shifts attentions from Western defence companies to Chinese oil interests 

Concern is rising in Washington that a rapprochement between the UAE and China in strategic areas is increasingly being reflected in direct alliances with members of the UAE's ruling Al Nahyan family.

Forensic Risk Alliance advising on Luokung blacklist lawsuit 

Forensic Risk Alliance (FRA), a compliance consultancy firm known for its work on corruption cases involving Rolls Royce and Airbus [...]

Ex-CIA officer Pockette takes charge of Oceania operations at Kalavinka 

The Hong Kong-based corporate intelligence firm Bridger Intelligence rebranded to Kalavinka late last year.

Bridger, ex-CIA and MI6 outfit, loses Japan adviser 

Correction issued on 27 May 2020: Following the publication of this article on 27 May, Alastair Campbell, Bridger Intelligence's chairman, [...]

Lord Gold and Simon Collins make partnership public 

Although he stepped down from the board of André Pienaar's [...]

Charles Powell returns to Wafic Said, still close to Sultan's clan 

The businessman close to the late Sultan bin Abdulaziz's clan is working again with consultant Charles Powell. The descendants of Saudi Arabia's defence minister of four decades are on the rise again in Riyadh.

Erdogan family's drones help Turkey's diplomacy in Africa and the Gulf 

In Libya's skies, drones supplied by the Unted Arab Emirates, Khalifa Haftar's uncontested sponsor, are up against Turkish drones.

Airbus continues to retool anti-corruption apparatus 

Still being probed by the British and French anti-corruption authorities, the European plane maker is keen to turn the page.