Anonymous ID: f497ab Nov. 11, 2020, 1:58 a.m. No.11589179   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>9209

>>11589173

Beginning in 2011, Black Cube provided intelligence services to Vincent Tchenguiz in a number of cases, including Tchenguiz's fight against the UK Serious Fraud Office,[2] following his arrest as part of the SFO investigation into the collapse of the Icelandic bank Kaupthing.

 

Vincent Tchenguiz (born 9 October 1956) is an Iranian-British entrepreneur born in Tehran. Robert Tchenguiz is his younger brother. Tchenguiz is known as a major donor to the Conservative Party (UK) and an investor in the controversial company SCL Group, known for the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal involving its subsidiary

Anonymous ID: f497ab Nov. 11, 2020, 2 a.m. No.11589209   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>9222

>>11589179

In November 2017, Ronan Farrow reported in The New Yorker that film executive Harvey Weinstein hired Black Cube in order to stop the publication of the abuse allegations against him. Using false identities, private investigators from Black Cube tracked and met journalists and actresses, in particular Rose McGowan, who later publicly accused Weinstein of rape. Over the course of a year, Weinstein had Black Cube and other agencies "target, or collect information on, dozens of individuals, and compile psychological profiles that sometimes focused on their personal or sexual histories."[12][13][14] One agent, Stella Penn Pechanac, used an alias to pose as a women’s rights supporter interested in hiring McGowan for a formal dinner speech, enabling her to secretly record conversations with the actress.[34][35][36][37] Black Cube apologized for taking the case in November 2017.[38] As of 2019, Manhattan federal prosecutors investigating Weinstein were probing into the firm's activities on his behalf;[39] and McGowan's separate racketeering suit against it remained active.[40] During Weinstein's 2020 trial for assault in Manhattan, Black Cube's spying on behalf of Weinstein became entered into the prosecutory evidence in January.[41]

Anonymous ID: f497ab Nov. 11, 2020, 2:01 a.m. No.11589222   🗄️.is đź”—kun

>>11589209

On 5 April 2019 the Senate Intelligence Committee sent a letter to Walter Soriano, the owner of USG Security Limited based in Britain and Israel, for his communication with Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, Psy-Group, Wikistrat, Orbis Business Intelligence (a firm co-founded by Christopher Steele), and Black Cube.[54][55] In response, the company denied any connection and stated that “neither they nor anyone acting on their behalf has ever had any communication or collaboration with Walter Soriano or anyone on his behalf."[56]