Promoting herself as a ‘self-made’ billionaire, Isabel dos Santos (IDS) is now a target of the Angolan government since the damaging Luanda Leaks were released by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). The leaks show that IDS, using her ties to the government to place herself in directorial positions of the country’s most profitable […]

When news broke out that President Trump had signed off on the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani, followed by Iran’s retaliation, the prospect of a ‘second Iraq War’ or more concerningly a World War III almost became a harsh reality. However, the “unintentional” downing of the Ukraine International Airlines jet has seemed to quieten the

As geopolitics and the rise of business-is-war raises tensions and concerns, the business world has hit upon what seems to be a solution: taking support, often at board level, from security services and government bodies, to provide a measure of comfort and reassurance as to their actions. However, while the organisation names may offer cachet,

The digital era is kind to the armchair detective – with a world of information available at the touch of a button, and technology offering numerous improvements to the accessing, analysing and application of the same, it has never been easier to trace a footprint (or indeed an actual person) and get chapter-and-verse about practically

A few years ago, the German and Russian secret services invested in typewriters, to ensure that their communications could not be intercepted by foreign powers and to enable them to continue their work in the event of a cyber compromise. Currently, the travel money provider Travelex must be wishing it invested in typewriters – or

Recently, the Australian bank Westpac was accused of facilitating the single biggest case of money laundering in the country’s history. Allegedly, $7.5bn of transactions – including those lined to child trafficking and exploitation – was waved through without appropriate due diligence, and in some cases breached anti-terrorist financing restrictions. Although this amount is an outlier