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NEWS RELEASE – UK Intelligence analysts track web of hidden money

UK Intelligence analysts track web of hidden money KCS Group Europe examines sources of Russian financial support and links to Czech president KCS Group Europe has traced a highly complex and hidden web of financial transactions designed to fund individuals and groups in support of the Russian leadership. The Group’s latest research paper, entitled ‘The [...]

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The luxuries of avoiding sanctions

Articles, Russia Ukraine Conflict / Due Diligence, Fraud, Organised crime, Russia, Sanctions / 07/2022

Global sanctions on Russia continue apace, and there are rare admissions from within the country that these are working. Transport Minister, Vitaly Savelyev, has indicated that current trade logistics have been ‘virtually wrecked’, and the news that McDonalds and Starbucks are to permanently leave the country is, to the ordinary Russian, just as disappointing as

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France: Liberty, Equality, Inadequacy?

Articles, Russia Ukraine Conflict / DueDiligence, Europe, France, Macron, Russia:Ukraine conflict / 07/2022

How quickly things change in politics. In April, Emanuel Macron was heralded as the latest saviour of Europe, having defeated the far-right challenge of Marine Le Pen for a second time and promising to remain leader of the fight against Putin – a statesman for our times. Now, he has lost control of the French

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Africa and Russia: It takes two

Articles, Russia Ukraine Conflict / Africa, Due Diligence, Oil & Gas, Russia, supply chains, Western world / 06/2022

While most of the world has condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine, one region has been far less forthcoming than most in registering its opposition. This is Africa, where half of the continent’s representatives in the UN failed to support the initial resolution demanding an immediate end to the invasion and from which condemnation has

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Strongman of the Year: Kremlin Edition

Articles, Russia Ukraine Conflict / Corruption, DueDiligence, Kremlin, Medvedev, Putin, Ukraine-Russia relations / 06/2022

Where does the soul of Russia lie? Some might say in its literature, with Chekhov, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy providing a formidable ‘reading list’. Others might speak for its music, with Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov among the foremost of classical composers. But, perhaps, there is a third answer, something inextricably bound up in the Russian soul that

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Justice is Swift?

Articles, Russia Ukraine Conflict / Cybercrime, DueDiligence, Economy, Russia, Sanctions / 06/2022

A question: if money makes the world go round, what happens when one country is no longer ‘in the money’? Just as when a moving tectonic plate hits a stationary one: collision. For three months now, the world has been attempting to cut Russia off from a variety of global financial capabilities and services, intended

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Wagner’s spin cycle

Articles, Russia Ukraine Conflict / Due Diligence, Human rights, Mali, Ukraine-Russia relations, Wagner / 06/2022

The invasion of Ukraine has been not so much a wake-up call as a repeated alarm – first Georgia in 2008, then Crimea in 2014, now Ukraine in 2022. On the third time, the world has realised that it can no longer press the snooze button on Russia’s aggression. But to suggest that this is

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Central Asia – A House Built on Sand

Articles, Russia Ukraine Conflict / Central Asia, China, Due Diligence, Geopolitics, Russia / 05/2022

The phrase “The Great Game” has become something of a lazy cliché when referencing anything to do with Central Asia. Regrettably, therefore, it has never been more apt than today. Much as it was during the days of empire, it is once again a hotbed of political and geopolitical struggle. Where aristocrats, warlords, tribesmen and

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Disinformation overload

Articles, Russia Ukraine Conflict / Due Diligence, Elon Musk, Fake News, Twitter, Ukraine-Russia relations / 05/2022

‘Facts are sacred’, was the famous maxim of Guardian owner and editor, CP Scott, in the early 1900s. Quite what he would have made of the media of today, where ‘fake news’ runs rampant across social media and disinformation is not only endorsed but enacted by individuals, corporates, and governments alike, we can only imagine.

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Mustang Panda, Hidden Dragon

Articles, Russia Ukraine Conflict / China, Cyber Security, Cybercrime, Due Diligence, Russia / 05/2022

‘Bronze President’ is not just another nickname for Donald Trump. It is a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group that has historically operated in the South Asian region, working across Hong Kong, Vietnam, and Burma (Myanmar), to gather sensitive information of interest to Beijing in its own backyard. But there are signs that the group’s targets are

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