Hints and tips:
...After NSO’s malware was tracked to the phones of associates of murdered Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi, Paragon declined Israeli government requests to replace Pegasus with Graphite in the Saudi armoury...
...But there is more to it than meets the eye, DD’s Kaye Wiggins and the FT’s Stephen Gandel report....
...So it may not be welcome news to many people who remember that five short years ago Saudi agents killed the journalist Jamal Khashoggi....
...Its Pegasus software was used to spy on at least three people close to the murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, according to Amnesty International and cyber security watchdog Citizen Lab....
...Four people connected to Novalpina, including two of the private equity firm’s co-founders Stephen Peel and Stefan Kowski, have seats on NSO’s board....
...(Think Carlyle co-chief turned Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin, Blackstone boss Stephen Schwarzman’s stint advising Donald Trump, and more.)...
...Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, Blackstone co-founder Stephen Schwarzman and David Solomon, head of Goldman Sachs, are among a host of western executives scheduled to speak at the Future...
...By the beginning of 2007, Jamal Tahlil had had enough....
...Saudi Arabia was the focus of global condemnation after the 2018 brutal murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and was shunned by many western leaders....
...The answer perhaps lies in the slick salesmanship of Stephen Peel, the former TPG Capital rainmaker, whose private equity firm Novalpina Capital executed a leveraged buyout of the surveillance company in...
...Another episode when the bank was torn between commercial considerations and its values was the assassination of Saudi dissident journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, in October 2018, two of the people said....
...“It doesn’t seem as though Biden has thought this through very carefully,” says Stephen Walt, a professor at Harvard Kennedy School....
...But his foundation mysteriously folded following the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi, in which he defended Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, among other controversies....
...philip.stephens@ft.com Follow Philip Stephens with myFT and on Twitter Letter in response to this article: Why China is not in the ‘anyone but Trump’ camp / From Donald Amstad, Singapore...
...“Where you find Emirati activity you often find Turkish activity directly countering it in a way Iran doesn’t,” says Michael Stephens, an associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, a think-tank...
...The moderator will be Blackstone chief executive Stephen Schwarzman, one of the high-profile attendees who pulled out at the last minute last year....
...Saudi Arabia was facing its biggest diplomatic crisis in years after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi weeks earlier, and the kingdom’s heir-apparent, who many blamed for the journalist’s killing, had faced...
...This is nonsense, Philip Stephens writes: Britain will be getting Brexit “done” for years beyond the day of leaving....
...The brutal, botched killing of Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul must surely have called time on this exceptionalism....
...Saudi Arabia is making efforts to court high-profile sporting events as it diversifies from oil and seeks to repair its battered reputation after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi....
...In October Blackstone president Jon Gray defended a $40bn infrastructure fund it was creating with Saudi Arabia, after it was revealed that journalist Jamal Khashoggi had been murdered and dismembered by...
...Lawmakers also cited messages that Mr Barrack sent to Blackstone co-founder Stephen Schwarzman and his Apollo counterpart Joshua Harris, without detailing any replies....
...The moves follow the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi after he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul earlier this month....
...A case in Israel, for instance, alleges that NSO’s software was used on a friend of Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post columnist murdered by Saudi hitmen....
...Last year, many boycotted the event following the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi....
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