The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
MPP protects LVMH again, 5 Stones minus Harrington, Nardello in Singapore

France
LVMH picks new global security director

The French luxury giant LVMH is poised to reveal internally the name of its new global security director. The nominee will bring his police experience to the group's many security managers.

Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore
Private sleuths hover between Tokyo and Singapore for APAC regional base

Investigators in the Indo-Pacific region are bulking up their Singapore teams, while maintaining a presence in Hong Kong. These moves are sometimes to the detriment of other regional offices, especially in Japan.

Spotlight | France, Qatar, Russia, United Kingdom, United States
Quest, McLaren and 5 Stones lead the race in 'sport business' investigations boom

After having originally targeted doping and then corruption and sexual and moral abuse, the number of private investigations being carried out in the world of sport has exploded, partly due to the political importance sport has taken on in some countries.

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
Nardello, Optima, Ilios, Sparacino, DRSD

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 New York, London, Paris and Rome.

New YorkFeldman to take over from Nardello in London.

LondonDeath knell sounds for Optima Defence & Security Group.

Aix-en-Provence/RomeIlios International looks towards Italy.

USSparacino without Veretus.

ParisDRSD boss leaves for Sanofi.

Spotlight | United Kingdom, United States
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.

How LVMH protest-proofed its AGM in Paris

No fewer than three layers of protection were deployed to prevent protesters from disrupting LVMH's general meeting in the French capital on 20 April. The luxury giant's Paris headquarters on Avenue Montaigne had been stormed a week earlier by SUD Rail trade union activists.