Kroll Inc., the Glossary

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1. 93 relations: Al-Qaeda, Altegrity Risk International, Ambra Gutierrez, André Esteves, Armor Holdings, Associated Press, Austin Police Department, Boris Yeltsin, Cancel culture, Centigon (company), Chair (officer), Chicago, Chief executive officer, Corporate services, Corporate spin-off, Court of Session, Credit rating, Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, Daniel Dantas (entrepreneur), Data recovery, Edmond de Rothschild Group, Enron scandal, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, First Amendment to the United States Constitution, Fitch Ratings, Floyd Abrams, Forensic accounting, Freeman Spogli & Co., Government of Ghana, HarperCollins, Harvey Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse cases, High-yield debt, Identity theft, Ilan Shor, Illegal drug trade, Influencer marketing, Initial public offering, Investment management, Istanbul, Jerome Hauer, John Fredriksen, John P. O'Neill, Joint-stock company, Jules Kroll, Leveraged buyout, Lord Advocate, Los Angeles Times, ... Expand index (43 more) »

2. Consulting firms established in 1972
3. Private intelligence agencies

Al-Qaeda

Al-Qaeda is a pan-Islamist militant organization led by Sunni Jihadists who self-identify as a vanguard spearheading a global Islamist revolution to unite the Muslim world under a supra-national Islamic caliphate.

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Altegrity Risk International

Altegrity Risk International (ARI) was a New York City-based global risk consulting and information services company. Kroll Inc. and Altegrity Risk International are management consulting firms of the United States, private investigators and security companies of the United States.

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Ambra Gutierrez

Ambra Battilana Gutierrez (born 15 May 1992) is an Italian model who was a finalist for Miss Italy, and has been featured in GQ Italy.

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André Esteves

André Santos Esteves (born July 12, 1968) is a Brazilian billionaire businessman.

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Armor Holdings

Armor Holdings, Inc. was an American manufacturer of military, law enforcement, and personnel safety equipment.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Austin Police Department

Austin Police Department (APD) is the principal law enforcement agency serving Austin, Texas.

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Boris Yeltsin

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (Борис Николаевич Ельцин,; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as President of Russia from 1991 to 1999.

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Cancel culture

Cancel culture is a cultural phenomenon in which an individual deemed to have acted or spoken in an unacceptable manner is ostracized, boycotted, shunned, fired or assaulted, often aided by social media.

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Centigon (company)

Centigon is a division of the Centigon Security Group.

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Chair (officer)

The chair, also chairman, chairwoman, or chairperson, is the presiding officer of an organized group such as a board, committee, or deliberative assembly.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Chief executive officer

A chief executive officer (CEO) (chief executive (CE), or managing director (MD) in the UK) is the highest officer charged with the management of an organization especially a company or nonprofit institution.

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Corporate services

Corporate services or business services are activities which combine or consolidate certain enterprise-wide needed support services, provided based on specialized knowledge, best practices, and technology to serve internal (and sometimes external) customers and business partners.

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Corporate spin-off

A corporate spin-off, also known as a spin-out, or starburst or hive-off, is a type of corporate action where a company "splits off" a section as a separate business or creates a second incarnation, even if the first is still active.

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Court of Session

The Court of Session (Cùirt an t-Seisein) is the supreme civil court of Scotland and constitutes part of the College of Justice; the supreme criminal court of Scotland is the High Court of Justiciary.

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Credit rating

A credit rating is an evaluation of the credit risk of a prospective debtor (an individual, a business, company or a government), predicting their ability to pay back the debt, and an implicit forecast of the likelihood of the debtor defaulting.

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Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service

The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (Oifis a' Chrùin agus Seirbheis Neach-casaid a' Chrùin) is the independent public prosecution service for Scotland, and is a Ministerial Department of the Scottish Government.

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Daniel Dantas (entrepreneur)

Daniel Valente Dantas is a Brazilian entrepreneur.

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Data recovery

In computing, data recovery is a process of retrieving deleted, inaccessible, lost, corrupted, damaged, or formatted data from secondary storage, removable media or files, when the data stored in them cannot be accessed in a usual way.

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Edmond de Rothschild Group

The Edmond de Rothschild Group is a financial institution specialized in private banking and asset management.

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Enron scandal

The Enron scandal was an accounting scandal involving Enron Corporation, an American energy company based in Houston, Texas.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG) is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger Williams Straus Jr. and John C. Farrar.

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Federal Reserve Board of Governors

The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, commonly known as the Federal Reserve Board, is the main governing body of the Federal Reserve System.

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Fernando Henrique Cardoso

Fernando Henrique Cardoso (born 18 June 1931), also known by his initials FHC, is a Brazilian sociologist, professor, and politician who served as the 34th president of Brazil from 1 January 1995 to 1 January 2003.

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First Amendment to the United States Constitution

The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prevents the government from making laws respecting an establishment of religion; prohibiting the free exercise of religion; or abridging the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press, the freedom of assembly, or the right to petition the government for redress of grievances.

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Fitch Ratings

Fitch Ratings Inc. is an American credit rating agency and is one of the "Big Three credit rating agencies", the other two being Moody's and Standard & Poor's. It is one of the three nationally recognized statistical rating organizations (NRSRO) designated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in 1975.

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Floyd Abrams

Floyd Abrams (born July 9, 1936) is an American lawyer.

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Forensic accounting

Forensic accounting, forensic accountancy or financial forensics is the specialty practice area of accounting that investigates whether firms engage in financial reporting misconduct, or financial misconduct within the workplace by employees, officers or directors of the organization.

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Freeman Spogli & Co.

Freeman Spogli & Co. is a private equity firm dedicated to investing with management in middle market companies in the consumer and distribution sectors through leveraged buyouts and recapitalizations.

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Government of Ghana

The Government of Ghana was created as a parliamentary democracy, followed by alternating military and civilian governments in Ghana.

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HarperCollins

HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British-American publishing company that is considered to be one of the "Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster.

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Harvey Weinstein

Harvey Weinstein (born March 19, 1952) is an American former film producer and convicted sex offender.

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Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse cases

In October 2017, The New York Times and The New Yorker reported that dozens of women had accused the American film producer Harvey Weinstein of rape, sexual assault and sexual abuse over a period of at least 30 years.

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High-yield debt

In finance, a high-yield bond (non-investment-grade bond, speculative-grade bond, or junk bond) is a bond that is rated below investment grade by credit rating agencies.

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Identity theft

Identity theft, identity piracy or identity infringement occurs when someone uses another's personal identifying information, like their name, identifying number, or credit card number, without their permission, to commit fraud or other crimes.

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Ilan Shor

Ilan Shor (or Șor; אילן שור; born 6 March 1987) is an Israeli-born Moldovan oligarch and politician.

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Illegal drug trade

The illegal drug trade, drug trafficking, or narcotrafficking is a global black market dedicated to the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of prohibited drugs.

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Influencer marketing

Influencer marketing (also known as influence marketing) is a form of social media marketing involving endorsements and product placement from influencers, people and organizations who have a purported expert level of knowledge or social influence in their field.

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Initial public offering

An initial public offering (IPO) or stock launch is a public offering in which shares of a company are sold to institutional investors and usually also to retail (individual) investors.

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Investment management

Investment management (sometimes referred to more generally as asset management) is the professional asset management of various securities, including shareholdings, bonds, and other assets, such as real estate, to meet specified investment goals for the benefit of investors.

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Istanbul

Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, straddling the Bosporus Strait, the boundary between Europe and Asia.

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Jerome Hauer

Jerome Maurice Hauer (October 31, 1951 – August 11, 2023) was an American businessman who was the chief executive officer of a consulting firm, The Hauer Group LLC.

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John Fredriksen

John Fredriksen (born 10 May 1944) is a Norwegian-born Cypriot oil tanker and shipping billionaire businessman based in London.

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John P. O'Neill

John Patrick O'Neill (February 6, 1952September 11, 2001) was an American counter-terrorism expert who worked as a special agent and eventually a special agent in charge in the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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Joint-stock company

A joint-stock company (JSC) is a business entity in which shares of the company's stock can be bought and sold by shareholders.

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Jules Kroll

Jules B. Kroll (born May 18, 1941) is an American businessman who is widely credited as the founder of the modern corporate investigations industry.

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Leveraged buyout

A leveraged buyout (LBO) is one company's acquisition of another company using a significant amount of borrowed money (leverage) to meet the cost of acquisition.

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Lord Advocate

His Majesty's Advocate, known as the Lord Advocate (Morair Tagraidh, Laird Advocat), is the principal legal adviser of both the Scottish Government and the Crown in Scotland for civil and criminal matters that fall within the devolved powers of the Scottish Parliament.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Lovell Minnick Partners

Lovell Minnick Partners is a private equity firm focused on investments in middle market financial and related business services companies in North America and Europe.

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Mahmut Karaduman

Mahmut Karaduman was a Turkish national and the plaintiff in a famous libel case.

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Management buyout

A management buyout (MBO) is a form of acquisition in which a company's existing managers acquire a large part, or all, of the company, whether from a parent company or individual.

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Market intelligence

Market intelligence (MI) is gathering and analyzing information relevant to a company's market - trends, competitor and customer (existing, lost and targeted) monitoring.

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Marsh McLennan

Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc., doing business as Marsh McLennan, is a global professional services firm, headquartered in New York City with businesses in insurance brokerage, risk management, reinsurance services, talent management, investment advisory, and management consulting.

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Michigan State University

Michigan State University (Michigan State or MSU) is a public land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan.

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National Bank of Moldova

The National Bank of Moldova (Banca Naţională a Moldovei) is the central bank of the Republic of Moldova.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York Newsday

New York Newsday was an American daily newspaper that primarily served New York City and was sold throughout the New York metropolitan area.

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New York Stock Exchange

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE, nicknamed "The Big Board") is an American stock exchange in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City.

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Nomenklatura

The nomenklatura (a; from nomenclatura, system of names) were a category of people within the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries who held various key administrative positions in the bureaucracy, running all spheres of those countries' activity: government, industry, agriculture, education, etc., whose positions were granted only with approval by the communist party of each country or region.

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Operation Tailwind

Operation Tailwind was a covert incursion by a small unit of United States Army and allied Montagnard forces into southeastern Laos during the Vietnam War, conducted from 11 to 14 September 1970.

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Pictet Group

The Pictet Group, known as Pictet, is a Swiss multinational private bank and financial services company founded in Switzerland.

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Police Scotland

Police Scotland (Poileas Alba), officially the Police Service of Scotland (Seirbheis Phoilis na h-Alba), is the national police force of Scotland.

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President (corporate title)

A president is a leader of an organization, company, community, club, trade union, university or other group.

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Private equity

Private equity (PE) is capital stock in a private company that does not offer stock to the general public.

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Private investigator

A private investigator (often abbreviated to PI and informally called a private eye), a private detective, or inquiry agent is a person who can be hired by individuals or groups to undertake investigatory law services. Kroll Inc. and private investigator are private investigators.

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Rangers F.C.

Rangers Football Club is a professional football club in Glasgow, Scotland.

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Risk and strategic consulting

Risk and strategic consulting refers to the provision of information, analysis and associated services in the field of international politics and economics, with the aim of providing a better understanding of the risks and opportunities facing businesses, governments and other groups.

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Roberto Mangabeira Unger

Roberto Mangabeira Unger (born 24 March 1947) is a Brazilian philosopher, jurist and politician.

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Rossiya Bank

The Rossiya Bank (Bank Rossiya (Банк «Росси́я»), in Russian: Акционерный коммерческий банк Россия, АКБ Россия) is a Russian joint stock bank founded on June 27, 1990.

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Russian Laundromat

The Russian Laundromat was a scheme to move $20–80billion out of Russia from 2010 to 2014 through a network of global banks, many of them in Moldova and Latvia.

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S&P Global Ratings

S&P Global Ratings (previously Standard & Poor's and informally known as S&P) is an American credit rating agency (CRA) and a division of S&P Global that publishes financial research and analysis on stocks, bonds, and commodities.

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SBI Shinsei Bank

is a leading diversified Japanese financial institution that provides a full range of financial products and services to both institutional and individual customers.

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Security Pacific Bank

Security Pacific National Bank (SPNB) was a large U.S. bank headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

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September 11 attacks

The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001.

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The Carlyle Group

The Carlyle Group Inc. is an American multinational private equity, alternative asset management and financial services corporation based in the United States with $426 billion of assets under management.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.

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Tiversa

Tiversa was an American cybersecurity firm headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Kroll Inc. and Tiversa are security companies of the United States.

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Twitter

X, commonly referred to by its former name Twitter, is a social networking service.

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USA Gymnastics sex abuse scandal

The USA Gymnastics sex abuse scandal relates to the sexual abuse of hundreds of gymnasts—primarily minors—over two decades in the United States, starting in the 1990s.

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VEB.RF

VEB.RF, or VEB (ВЭБ.РФ), is a Russian state development corporation and investment company.

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Vestar Capital Partners

Vestar Capital Partners is an American private equity firm focusing on leveraged buyout transactions in middle-market companies in the United States.

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Webster Bank

Webster Bank is an American commercial bank based in Stamford, Connecticut.

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Willis Tower

The Willis Tower, originally and still commonly referred to as the Sears Tower, is a 110-story, skyscraper in the Loop community area of Chicago in Illinois, United States.

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World Trade Center (1973–2001)

The original World Trade Center (WTC) was a large complex of seven buildings in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City.

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Yegor Gaidar

Yegor Timurovich Gaidar (Его́р Тиму́рович Гайда́р,; 19 March 1956 – 16 December 2009) was a Soviet and Russian economist, politician, and author, and was the Acting Prime Minister of Russia from 15 June 1992 to 14 December 1992.

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1991 Soviet coup attempt

The 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, also known as the August Coup, was a failed attempt by hardliners of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) to forcibly seize control of the country from Mikhail Gorbachev, who was Soviet President and General Secretary of the CPSU at the time.

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1993 World Trade Center bombing

The 1993 World Trade Center bombing was a terrorist attack carried out by Al-Qaeda against the United States on February 26, 1993, when a van bomb detonated below the North Tower of the World Trade Center complex in New York City.

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2014 Moldovan bank fraud scandal

In 2014, $1 billion disappeared from three Moldovan banks: Banca de Economii, Unibank and Banca Socială.

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See also

Consulting firms established in 1972

• Kroll Inc.
• RWDI

Private intelligence agencies

• Aegis Defence Services
• Archimedes Group
• Black Cube
• Booz Allen Hamilton
• Cambridge Analytica
• Control Risks
• Docusearch
• Eclipse Group
• Groupe GEOS
• Joel Zamel
• Kreller Companies
• Kroll Inc.
• Lincoln Group
• NSO Group
• Oxford Analytica
• Pinkerton (detective agency)
• Private intelligence agency
• Psy-Group
• Smith Brandon International
• Sodalitium Pianum
• Stratfor
• Thompson and Clark
• Tiger Eye P. I.
• Z-Division

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kroll_Inc.

Also known as Chanin Capital Partners, Duff & Phelps, Duff & Phelps Corporation, Duff & Phelps Utility & Corporate Bond Trust, Ibas Holdings, Ibas Holdings ASA, Kroll Associates, Kroll Associates, Inc., Kroll Inc, Kroll Ontrack, Kroll Ontrack AS, Kroll Ontrack Inc., Kroll Security Group, Kroll and Associates, Kroll, Inc., Kroll-O'Gara, Noah Gottdiener, Phoenix Duff & Phelps Corporation.

, Lovell Minnick Partners, Mahmut Karaduman, Management buyout, Market intelligence, Marsh McLennan, Michigan State University, National Bank of Moldova, New York City, New York Newsday, New York Stock Exchange, Nomenklatura, Operation Tailwind, Pictet Group, Police Scotland, President (corporate title), Private equity, Private investigator, Rangers F.C., Risk and strategic consulting, Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Rossiya Bank, Russian Laundromat, S&P Global Ratings, SBI Shinsei Bank, Security Pacific Bank, September 11 attacks, The Carlyle Group, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Times, The Wall Street Journal, Tiversa, Twitter, USA Gymnastics sex abuse scandal, VEB.RF, Vestar Capital Partners, Webster Bank, Willis Tower, World Trade Center (1973–2001), Yegor Gaidar, 1991 Soviet coup attempt, 1993 World Trade Center bombing, 2014 Moldovan bank fraud scandal.