Malaysia, United Kingdom, United States
Malaysian 1MDB scandal has created many career opportunities in private investigation

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Appointments, financial results, new contracts: every Wednesday, we report on events big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community.

Paris/LondonFrench fund Tikehau invests in UK corporate intelligence with Antithesis

Los AngelesWendy Wu joins Nardello's expanding California office

London/New YorkFormer FBI agent Robert Heuchling anchors Alaco in the US

ParisAvisa bolsters its ethics committee

Kuwait
Bachar Kiwan gets UN consolation over his Kuwait conviction

The French-Syrian businessman, who is caught up in a scandal involving the Malaysian state fund 1MDB, may see a glimmer of hope in a recent decision by UN experts stating that the prison sentence against him was unlawful.

Spotlight | France, Germany, Malaysia
Naval Group and Rheinmetall contracts caught up in Malaysian anti-corruption audit

Intelligence Online has seen the full audit report - not the redacted public version - on Naval Group's corvette sale programme to the Royal Malaysian Navy. The report focuses on financial dealings between the BNS shipyard and Germany's Rheinmetall Group, but a secret section looks at potential corrupt practices in ancillary contracts that followed the sale of submarines in 2002.

France, Kuwait
Magnate Bachar Kiwan goes into battle against Kuwait

Caught up in the Kuwaiti chapter of the vast 1MDB scandal, businessman Bachar Kiwan has filed for arbitration before the ICSID, hoping the anti-corruption drive of the Gulf nation's new parliament will work in his favour.

United States
As 1MDB case looms, Jho Low beefs up defence

Financier Jho Low, who is at the centre of the [...]

United Kingdom
1MDB scandal: London calling

Jho Low, the Malaysian businessman at the centre of the [...]

France, Malaysia
1MBD affair has French connection

The massive fraud scandal in Malaysia involving the part-publicly owned fund 1MDB looks set to impact upon a number of French personalities.

Malaysia
Typhoon and Rafale held up in Malaysia

Embroiled in the biggest scandal in its history, Kuala Lumpur is putting the brakes on negotiations for an order of new fighter jets. However behind the scenes companies hoping to land the business are continuing to do deals with their contacts on the ground.