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Finance Minister Ishaq Dar’s sons run a business in Dubai that is said to provide discreet investment advice and other services to Pakistani intelligence and military officials.
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Intelligence Online can now reveal that the FBI has several of the former French intelligence chief Bernard Squarcini's contracts in its possession, including those operated for Russian interests.
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#France
DGSE and DGRIS officials also warned the French Senate about Chinese influence in New Caledonia at a recent hearing.
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🚨 🇫🇷 🇦🇪 Intelligence Online can reveal that a former French special forces officer is creating a new elite unit for the Emirates of at least 3,000 foreign recruits based on the model of the French Foreign Legion. ⬇️
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The FBI is investigating a group of former agents who became private consultants after they left the Bureau. Some of these former officials have worked for Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska through the secretive intelligence operator Walter Soriano.
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🇬🇧 Former SIS-officer turned investigator Christopher Steele relied on the information of a part-time novelist, who had been criticised for falsifying information, to help compile reporting on the Russia links of Conservative party donor Mohamed Amersi and ex-PM Boris Johnson 1/3
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Intelligence Online has learned details of a secret operation between Moscow and Belgrade for the recruitment of nearly 500 Balkan fighters to be deployed to Ukraine.
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French DGSE foreign intelligence agency's ex-boss Bernard Bajolet may be referred to a criminal court for the intimidation of a businessman from whom the agency was demanding €15m. The judicial first could have repercussions for French agents' operations.
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🚨🇹🇼🇺🇸 It's not just the UAE that wants its own private army, Taiwan does too. Intelligence Online has been able to consult the commercial offers put forward by private American military companies to train a new Taiwanese Paramilitary Special Forces. 1/3 ⬇️
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🇮🇱 🇪🇺 🇺🇸A handful of Western military officers have asked the International Criminal Court to refrain from charging Benjamin Netanyahu in a discreet submission to the politically charged case. ⬇️ (1/3)
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📣France and Ukraine are finalising preparations for Emmanuel Macron's visit to Kyiv and hoping to finally reach an agreement to supply Mirage 2000D ground-attack aircraft.
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The website Forensic News has taken legal action to defend itself against Walter Soriano. Richard Frankel's former activities for Soriano's firm USG Security look set to expose other firms he worked for
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Steele continued to rely on "Douglas" even after being told that he had been dropped as a contractor by two other private intelligence firms in London, Intelligence Online has learnt 3/3
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French Ex-Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian stepped back from politics in May 202 and is now becoming an adviser in the Saudi defence industry.
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🇨🇳🇭🇺Intelligence Online can reveal that CCP envoys have asked several countries to go beyond the BRI and get on board with Xi Jinping's new Global Security Initiative. 1/3 ⬇️
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The first screening of a documentary on the French foreign intelligence agency DGSE in Paris on 2 April sold out. The crème de la crème of French intelligence was there, including the agency's former director Bernard Emié, who was dismissed in 2023.
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Codenamed "Douglas" inside Orbis, Steele's private investigations firm, the sub-contractor presented himself as a former government intelligence agent, something sources in the corporate intelligence sector have questioned 2/3
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After being exposed by Google, the Spanish cyber intelligence firm Variston wants to try a new path, away from cyber offensive activities.
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German defence firm Rohde & Schwarz has already kitted out the Dupuy-de-Lôme with its interception and satellite technology. Now it wants to update the vessel’s lacklustre electronic intel capabilities.
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A French parliamentary report has called for both the development of new air and space intelligence capabilities and increased cooperation with France’s allies in the Indo-Pacific but resources have turned elsewhere
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Gennady Timchenko, the sole oligarch involved in strategic projects for Paris, was prepared for the imposition of Western sanctions thanks to the Franco-Russian business network he has built up over the years.
#Russia
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An investigation into the intimidation of a financier accused by France’s DGSE foreign intelligence of having stolen its secret funds, sheds light on how the operation was planned. It also shows how the probe caused concern within the spy agency.
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After long negotiations over several weeks, brokers operating for the authorities in Kyiv are hoping to obtain 40 or so Mirage fighter aircraft. Intelligence Online investigates the origins of those aircraft.
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The CEO of Neom Nadhmi Al-Nasr is set to be in the French capital on 2 June in a bid to attract French investors for Mohammed bin Salman's major projects led by the Global Diwan network.
#SaudiArabia
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#France
Now popular with students in France, the new academic discipline of intelligence is attracting a number of ex-spymasters including Christophe Gomart, the former head of military intelligence.
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These private ‘Green Berets’ would learn skills in sabotage, intelligence gathering and special operations at a base in Poland, which has become a hub for guerrilla training due to the war in Ukraine. 2/3
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#US
electronic warfare giant
@L3HarrisTech
is the leading candidate to buy the former Israeli leader in tactical interception
@NSOgroup
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#Israel
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The French defence ministry is pulling out all the stops to recruit the best open-source intelligence specialists.
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🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇷🇺 While intelligence agencies are on edge about the prospect of Russian spies trying to infiltrate the country, Intelligence Online has learned that US authorities arrested a French national a few days ago. 1/4 ⬇️
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With the French special forces engaged on several fronts, carrying out intelligence-gathering missions among others, several chiefs are poised to be replaced. Their commander Eric Vidau however will stay on for a third year.
#France
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📣The Manar Military Company behind the plan to create a UAE "Foreign Legion" is owned by two men who are as discreet as they are powerful: Saeed Ahmed Ghobash and Nawwaf Ghobash.
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📣 Walter Soriano, whose corporate intelligence firm worked for Oleg Deripaska and Dmitri Rybolovlev, is suing Forensic News for libel and the spotlight is starting to shine on his former employees such as fallen FBI star Mark Rossini.
#USA
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Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's top secret spy school is causing a British intelligence brain drain as officers are wooed by generous salaries.
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🇮🇱 Intelligence Online lifts the veil on the armada of intelligence sensors deployed by the Israeli military in the skies over Beirut. 1/3 ⬇️
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France's DGSE external intelligence service is trying to reduce turnover in its technical directorate. It has hence begun warning potential recruits of its difficult working conditions in its job advertisements.
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📣 Targeted by missile attacks from the Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen,
#SaudiArabia
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🚨🇫🇷🇦🇿🇦🇲🇳🇨Intelligence Online investigates the unprecedented influence campaign that Azerbaijan is currently waging against France, from Armenia to New Caledonia. Baku is determined to make Paris pay for its military commitment to Yerevan. 1/3
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📣Former US Secretary of State and ex-CIA chief Mike Pompeo, now working with a US hedge fund, and UAE national security adviser Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, are poised to strike a multi-billion dollar deal.
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📣This summer, Intelligence Online reveals how Pope Francis relied on private investigators as part of his crackdown on corruption in the Holy See. Behind the probes, a French banker who has become a vital component of the Vatican's clean-up operation.
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Taking advantage of an OSINT trend in Washington, the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research is looking to strengthen its own capacity in that domain.
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Senior French civil servants who had spent even a short time in the country’s DGSE foreign intelligence agency used to be shunned by top politicians. But they have now become a coveted commodity in ministerial offices.
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The annulment of the withdrawal of a DGSI officer's secret-defence clearance illustrates the difficulties involved in investigating counter-espionage, without undermining the fight against terrorism.
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British-Australian strategic communications and business intelligence firm CT Group has set up a new unit for its clients in continental Europe with the former heads of French domestic intelligence and German foreign intelligence.
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The initiative in support of Israel at the ICC is being led by the High Level Military Group, comprising senior officers from NATO countries and run by former UK and US officers. (2/3)
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Kuwait, currently reforming its security services with help from the US and Saudi Arabia, is to put its hitherto independent national security service under the authority of the interior ministry and its minister, Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah.
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Estimated to cost around $30m, the project is being financed by businessman Robert Tsao. Although the Taiwanese authorities are not officially involved in the project, a ruling party executive is at the heart of it. Intelligence Online investigates 3/3
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A group of Wall Street, tech and Hollywood billionaires have launched a lavishly funded media campaign to promote Tel Aviv’s version of events in Gaza. Josh Vlasto, a former staffer to Senator Chuck Schumer, is helping coordinate the group.
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Currently in the process of awarding a series of new contracts, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is looking to ring-fence its prerogatives ahead of November’s US presidential election.
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Havana syndrome has once again put the American intelligence community in an awkward position, with the agencies having to publicly accept the consequences of embarrassing revelations.
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The involvement of the officers' consortium comes amid an intense battle for influence at the ICC between pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian standpoints, each with organisations backing their cause. (3/3)
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📣 Determined to expose the chain of command that hacked and leaked his emails allegedly under instructions from the
#RasAlKhaimah
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Following the arrest of Alexander Smirnov, Intelligence Online can reveal the identities of two other informants who provided the FBI with information on alleged financial crimes by Hunter Biden.
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To hide his work for Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, McGonigal allegedly lied, forged signatures, and had payments from his controversial client funnelled through an offshore shell firm. Read the hidden story behind the indictment.
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🇺🇸🇨🇳🛰️Washington and Beijing are waging a top-secret spy satellite war over the Indian Ocean. 1/4 ⬇️
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After being flagged by Google, the Spanish cyber intelligence firm Variston has been losing its best zero-day vulnerability researchers to newcomer Paradigm Shift.
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Spy Way of Life | This week Intelligence Online explores the Emirates Golf Club, a haven for diplomacy as much as sport where celebrities as well as Pakistani officers enjoy teeing off.
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🇫🇷🇨🇳The French leg of Chinese president Xi Jinping’s trip to Europe, planned in early May, in which France had hoped to make progress on finding a compromise on the Ukrainian conflict, is turning into a diplomatic headache. 1/3 ⬇️
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📢 As Cardinal Angelo Becciu prepares to appeal his five-and-a-half-year jail sentence for financial crimes, Intelligence Online reveals how Pope Francis relied on private investigators as part of his crackdown on corruption in the Holy See.
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Xi Jinping wants to improve the quality and control of intelligence and information collected by the army's new Information Support Force.
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With Russia's FSB old guard of deputy directors being eased out, speculation is rife as to who will succeed spymaster Alexander Bortnikov.
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🇺🇸🇮🇱🇶🇦Intelligence Online has had access to the diplomatic and security details of a US public-private operation that will use the expertise of former CIA and US Navy SEALspecial forces officials to create a floating dock to help the people of Gaza. 1/3 ⬇️
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The Emirati Foreign Legion currently being formed has already planned to be deployed to two initial theatres of operation, in Yemen and Somalia. 3/4
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🇺🇸🇹🇼 A major project, revealed by Intelligence Online, for US private military firms to train Taiwanese special forces has stalled. 1/3 ⬇️
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A Croatian master spy has received France's Légion d'Honneur medal, crowning an eight-year relationship between the intelligence services of Paris and Zagreb.
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With US lobbyist Moran Global Strategies, Armenian opposition group National Democratic Alliance will be able to get closer to US security networks in Congress which Moran developed for its other clients Qatar and Ukraine.
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🇮🇱 🛰️ [Free access] Israel’s military offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon, which began on 1 October, has left the country’s top brass in great need of imagery from their spy satellites. 1/3 ⬇️
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📣 The Nouveau Front Populaire left-wing alliance that won the most seats in France’s snap elections, has little interest in intelligence matters. None of the MPs from the alliance stand out as specialists in intelligence or strategic affairs.
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📢 The National Intelligence Council is little known even in the US intel community but is responsible for producing authoritative analyses in Washington. It brings together experts from all US agencies and can adapt to political decision-makers' needs
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Russian military intelligence is recruiting potential 'sleeper' agents via Telegram, from Scandinavia to Greece and the Balkans, using a dedicated bot that Intelligence Online has tested.
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📣UAE's reported plans to launch a call for tender for a second nuclear plant highlight the nation's energy requirements for next-level artificial intelligence but also the dangers of relying on renewables to power data centres.
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#Kazakhstan
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.
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📢 The capsize of the tourist vessel Goduria on Lake Maggiore on 28 May, in which two Italian intelligence officers, an Israeli agent and the wife of the boat's skipper lost their lives, is continuing to affect the Italian intelligence services.
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📣A US spy satellite from the secret Nemesis programme has been snooping on a Franco-Italian military telecommunications satellite during the testing of a new intercontinental missile.
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A handful of advisers and business diplomats who facilitated ex-French president Nicolas Sarkozy's comings and goings between Paris and Moscow are still well-connected with French companies with assets in Russia.
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The Party has thus begun to lay the foundations for a gradual replacement of the BRI by the Global Security Initiative. GSI's watchwords focus on security, development and civilisation from Beijing's standpoint. 3/3
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The Israeli cyber-intelligence firm NSO Group, back in the hands of its founder Omri Lavie since March, is in direct talks with Chad's public security ministry.
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The pope runs the Vatican's intelligence operations through informal intelligence experts who shape foreign policy and engineer discreet parallel diplomacy operations, under the watchful eye of the world's intelligence services.
#Vatican
#masterspy
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📢 Emirati projects with China in the cyber and artificial intelligence sectors were documented by Intelligence Online in 2021, but it is now in the space sector that closer ties are being built with Gulf states.
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US zero-day vulnerability broker Zerodium may soon close its doors in a sign of an industry in crisis.
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Raytheon Saudi Arabia last week published a string of job offers, including at least five directly related to the manufacture/production of Patriot air defence systems by its parent company, Raytheon (now RTX).
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Brussels wants a slice of the geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) and satellite radio frequency interception market through its AerospaceLab.
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France's Thales Alenia Space (TAS) and the UK's In-Space, a subsidiary of BAE System, are the latest contenders for the satellite constellation Jove project.
#UK
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📢 An architect of the relationship between Israel and Myanmar for more than 20 years, Israeli businessman Doron Landau developed the marketplace for Israeli cyber businesses in the country.
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Emmanuel Macron's statements on Ukraine have caused a U-turn among Russian officers wary of the ongoing conflict who would enjoy a fight with their natural enemy, NATO.
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The first American university to engage in a counter-intelligence programme of this kind, MIT is working on an investigation and monitoring system for Chinese students and researchers, close to Japanese academia's methods
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📣 Zerodium, the US seller of previously unreferenced vulnerabilities, currently exemplifies the difficulties being experienced by the sector and could soon be forced to shut shop.
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📢 Nadeem Anjum, appointed director general of
#Pakistan
's Inter-Services Intelligence in October 2021, is reforming the service to make headway on a number of key internal and external issues
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Qin Gang's disappearance in July appears to have led to a trail in which Beijing reportedly discovered that its foreign minister was a spy for the US, a lead passed on by Moscow. (Free article)
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📢 The Chinese Ministry of State Security, or Gonganbu, has, as we have learned, been in control of the country's universities for at least six months.
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The French government's 2024 budget provides for the justice ministry to pay €2m to the country's external intelligence service, the DGSE, for the use of DGSE interception tools by the national legal interceptions platform.
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Serbia turning its back on the EU and joining the BRICS could allow Chinese President Xi Jinping to return to the bloc's original Europe-focused enlargement plan.
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This summer, Intelligence Online reveals how Pope Francis relied on private investigators as part of his crackdown on corruption in the Holy See. At the heart of the probe, a well-known name in the London intelligence sector.
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France's Naval Group is conducting advanced research in the field of AI applied to acoustic intelligence with a specialist lab at the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, hoping to be able to detect new types of near-silent submarines.
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Ex-FBI boss turned private investigator Louis Freeh, who is leading a media campaign against the conditional liberation of a businessman convicted for the murder of a Kazakh banker, insists on the guilt of disgraced oligarch Mukhtar Ablyazov.
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📢 Kyiv, Chisinau, Yerevan, Tirana... These are just some of the capitals where Washington is deploying advisers to help defence ministries bring themselves into line with the US.
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