An investment fund examining an infrastructure opportunity in East Africa retained CRA’s team to help identify and mitigate critical risks. The team conducted a substantial intelligence gathering exercise, and provided a combination of due diligence into partners, geopolitical risk analysis, and an impact assessment of scenarios such as other partners withdrawing from the project, political regime change. The findings played a key role in the fund’s decision making.
Iranian agents charged in kidnapping plot hired local private investigator
What happened: On July 13, 2021, the Justice Department announced the indictment of four Iranian nationals for kidnapping conspiracy and other charges stemming...