https:// www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2017-12-12/inside-the-corporate-investigations-business
Hakluyt’s style appears to be much more in the mould of the Christopher Steele dossier. Clients pay for pages of well-sourced prose from Hakluyt’s contacts across the globe. One such contact was famously Neil Heywood, a British businessman who had started to work as a fixer for China’s increasingly wealthy elite. One of his clients was the wife of Bo Xilai, at the time the hot tip to make it all the way to the Chinese presidency. Instead Heywood was poisoned and Bo Xilai and his wife were both imprisoned.
Kate and Gerry McCann also hired the firm’s operatives to assist in the hunt for their daughter in Morocco and Spain, angering Portuguese police and judiciary.