DGSE's €2bn splurge | Rafale lands in Jakarta | Thales loses NATO Kabul contract

Corporate and Government Intelligence

Daily issue Monday 10 May 2021 SPOTLIGHT  FRANCE   GOVERNMENT INTELLIGENCE    DGSE swallows up €2bn in resources   France's external intelligence service has launched some major works to increase its interceptions capacities and make room for new staff. Some bugetary juggling has been involved.  [...] GOVERNMENT INTELLIGENCE  POLAND   UKRAINE    Ukraine and Poland team up anticorruption bureaus under Washington's watchful gaze   As tensions continue to rise between the West and Russia, Ukraine wants to strengthen cooperation with Poland over anticorruption reforms and regional alternatives to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project. The US is on board the move, seeing Poland as an efficient relay of its eastern European policy.  [...]      TURKEY    Turkish intelligence service prepares a new anti-Gulen purge   Turkish intelligence service MIT has again been ordered to find more supposed supporters of outlawed imam Fethulah Gulen, whom Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused of being behind the failed 2016 coup attempt in Turkey. A wave of new arrests is expected this summer in the ranks of the police.  [...] INTERNATIONAL DEALMAKING  FRANCE   INDONESIA    After Cairo, Rafale ready to land in Jakarta   Dassault is in the final stages of negotiation with the French and Indonesian finance ministries for funding for the sale of 36 Rafale fighter planes to Indonesia, where an anti-corrution crackdown is underway.  [...] CORPORATE INTELLIGENCE  UNITED KINGDOM    Stokoe fails to damage RAK investigators before upcoming Gerrard/ENRC case   Stokoe's attempts at legal action against private investigators who worked for lawyer Neil Gerrard have failed to deliver. Kazakh conglomerate ENRC will have to find other ruses against Neil Gerrard before the trial planned in the coming weeks.  [...]      AFGHANISTAN   FRANCE    NATO suspends Thales and GEOS contract in Kabul   NATO's early withdrawal from Afghanistan means it not longer requires its service contracts in the country. The termination of the most emblematic of these, Thales' telecommunications contract, also spells the end to GEOS's largest account.  [...] SURVEILLANCE & INTERCEPTION  ISRAEL    Rayzone loses its cyber chief as it tries to free itself of its reliance on SS7   Rayzone, which has already been weakened by document leaks in trials involving third parties, now needs to fill the hole left by the departure of its chief cyber officer.  [...] Discover our subscription offers

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