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The current boom in anti-fraud cases has prompted former MI6 aide Michael Oatley, a dominating figure in London investigative circles, to start up a new firm.
The company, named Inint, is already operating but doesn’t yet have its name engraved on the door of a building on Park Lane only a stone’s throw from the Dorchester hotel. Early this month, Michael Oatley and French national Gerard Willing set up Inint to specialize in the fight against both financial fraud and counterfeiting of goods.
Like several other London business intelligence outfits (IOL 587/589), Inint has already landed contracts to investigate feeder funds that drummed up money for Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities. Linked to banks, the funds have become the object of class actions in Europe and the U.S.
MI6’s former director for Europe and the Middle East, Oatley left government service for the business intelligence trade in the early 1990s, working initially with Kroll and then as the boss of the Ciex firm. Willing, a former journalist at Le Matin and Canard Enchaine, was one of the founders of Ciex and represented the company in France.
In the early 2000s, the two sold their shares in Ciex which was re-named Penumbra. Now aged 73, Oatlay served as a consultant to several companies, including the debt recovery concern Ovag. Wiling continued to operate independently.
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