The trial of Bernard Squarcini, if confirmed by investigating judge Aude Buresi, should involve the network of those who once dominated France's corporate intelligence networks. In December, the prosecutor's office asked judges for the former head of the then French
The Israeli open source intelligence, or OSINT, firm Labyrinth (IO, 23/08/21) closed in early January. Once viewed sympathetically, OSINT has come
On 8 January, Sheikh Himyar bin Abdullah al-Ahmar was elected head of the Hashid tribal confederation, the second biggest in
Eleven MPs, 10 of whom are members of the Servant of the People party, have been appointed to a temporary
Last month, authorities in Latvia raided and shut down Baltic International Bank (BIB) in Riga on the grounds that it
New York/London: Mackintosh marks StoneTurn's arrival on British insider threat market The New York-based intelligence and advisory firm StoneTurn has
Following the recommendations of the House of Lords Conduct Committee, Labour peer Baroness Mary Goudie was suspended from parliament on 11 January
The US law firm King & Spalding (IO, 18/02/22 and 20/07/22) has been advising Bulgarian former banker Tsvetan Vassilev since
A contract signed in Kabul on 5 January by Afghan mines and oil minister Shahabuddin Delawar and a senior executive from the Xinjiang Central Asia Petroleum and Gas Co (CAPEIC), which provides for the extraction of oil from the Amu-Darya
China's Sinovatio is getting ready to make its big comeback at Dubai's ISS World on 28 February-2 March. The firm, a protégé
As Intelligence Online learnt from several sources, Tal Dilian, a leading entrepreneur in Israeli cyber industry, is about to announce
At the recent soccer World Cup in Qatar, Uzbek businessman Bakhromjon Gaziev (Bakhom Gaziev), an informal envoy for his country's government,
The state arms conglomerate Rostec is taking full advantage of Russia's transition to a war economy (IO, 08/12/22). For several
Telegram channels and pro-Kremlin online media sites have published a flurry of content presented as 'leaks' or 'insider' information since the
As the Russia-backed normalisation process between Turkey and Syria rolls on (IO, 22/11/22), the United States will need to adapt
The government of Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani (IO, 19/12/22) has been vocally publicising its anti-money-laundering and asset-recovery efforts,
Late last year a Ukrainian citizen lost his court bid to overturn the French interior ministry's refusal to grant him French nationality in 2017 and again in 2018. An administrative court in the western city of Nantes based its rejection
By securing a contract worth more than $12m for the Signature Management using Operational Knowledge and Environments (SMOKE, IO, 14/10/22,
Terminals Holding, part of the business empire of Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the brother and national security adviser of
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