Black Cube
Company type | Private limited company |
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Industry | Litigation support Competitive intelligence Risk consulting |
Founded | 2010 |
Headquarters | |
Number of employees | 340+ |
Website | blackcube |
Black Cube (BC Strategy Ltd) is a
Black Cube provides intelligence, evidence, and advisory services in multi-jurisdictional legal and white collar crime cases.[2] Its clients include primarily very rich people, oligarchs and corporations around the world, about whom Black Cube exposed fraud, bribery, money laundering, corruption and asset dissipation.[9][10] The company uncovered high-level corruption in Italy, Panama, and Mexico.[11][12][13] It is estimated that Black Cube has managed to trace and recover billions of dollars in hidden assets around the world.[14][15]
Black Cube's tactics have resulted in a number of international controversies. In Romania, two of its employees were convicted of criminal charges involving harassment and hacking.[16][17][18][19]
History
BC Strategy Ltd. (Black Cube) has offices in Tel Aviv, London, and Paris. It was founded in 2010 by Avi Yanus a former Israel Defense Forces (IDF) strategic planning officer and Dan Zorella, who was in IDF Military Intelligence.[20] Yanus and Zorella met at the Technion University in Haifa, where they both did undergraduate studies in economics. Yanus went on to complete his PhD in organizational behavior.[20][21] By 2018, Black Cube had been involved in operations in over sixty countries.[20]
Since 2011, Black Cube has provided evidence for high-profile cases in Canada, Italy, Israel, Mexico, Panama, the United Kingdom and the United States. The company describes itself as a "select group of veterans from the Israeli elite intelligence units that specialises in tailored solutions to complex business and litigation challenges."[1]
Black Cube's International Advisory Board included Meir Dagan, a former chief of Mossad—Israel's national intelligence agency—from 2002 to 2011, and Black Cube's president until he passed away in 2016.[20] Their IAB includes Efraim Halevy, who was also a head of Mossad for 30 years. Other IAB members include Yohanan Danino, Giora Eiland, Adrian Leppard, Robert Amaee, Asher Tishler, Paul Reyniers, Golan Malka, and Itiel Maayan.[1]
In a court deposition Yanus described the bilateral relationship between the IDF and Black Cube's civilian market, where former Israeli intelligence operators advise Black Cube and provide it with a business network.[20] According to Forbes Israel, Black Cube is one of many business intelligence firms such as GPW, and K2, for an industry that expanded to 80 billion dollars in 2015 alone.[20] These intelligence firms attract people who previously worked in IDF Military Intelligence. Salaries are high in the business intelligence sector. Dozens of these firms were established as the demand grew. Forbes Israel called this a "new trend in Israeli exports."[20]
Media coverage
In 2014, Israel's Globes published a favorable article about Black Cube after they won several high-profile cases.[2] In their 2018 article, Forbes Israel called Black Cube the "Mossad" of the "business world".[20]
Black Cube has been criticized by the international press. In his November 6, 2017 The New Yorker article, Ronan Farrow described them as an "army of spies" who attempted to stifle stories about Harvey Weinstein's sexual assaults by seeking to discredit the women Weinstein attacked and the journalists who investigated his crimes.[7] A lengthy June 2021 report in the Canadian newspaper, The Globe and Mail—one in a series of articles that were highly critical of its methods—detailed the many ways Black Cube agents worked to fabricate evidence against innocent civilians, including a Canadian judge and journalists.[22] In August 2021, the podcast Darknet Diaries featured a first-hand account of Black Cube operatives targeting journalists and Citizen Lab staff member John Scott-Railton.[23] In his 2021 publication, Spooked: The Trump Dossier, Black Cube, and the Rise of Private Spies, former investigative reporter with The New York Times, Barry Meier, described the "oversized impact" Black Cube and other private spies in their "murky world"—were "suddenly having on politics, business and our personal lives."[24][page needed][25]
Notable investigations and clients
Vincent Tchenguiz
The first case that brought Black Cube to the attention of the media, was the legal dispute between
Nochi Dankner
In 2014, Black Cube was hired by Israeli businessman Nochi Dankner, to examine a court decision assigning control of IDB Holding Corp. Ltd. to Motti Ben Moshe.[2] Black Cube investigated the sources of capital of Ben Moshe, revealing an ongoing investigation by German regulatory authorities into Ben Moshe's company ExtraEnergy,[31] and locating a witness who held evidence of money laundering and tax evasion by Ben Moshe.[32]
Joseph Kabila
In 2019, the Israeli investigative television program Uvda (which airs on channel 12) released a report detailing how Dan Zorella had met with then-president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Joseph Kabila in 2015 to hire Black Cube for Operation Coltan, an operation to spy on Kabila's political opponents. Black Cube investigators rented out the entire floor of a hotel in Kinshasa to serve as a base of operations.[33] Opposition figures expressed outrage at the revelations.[34][35]
Nobu Su
In 2015, Black Cube assisted Taiwanese businessman Nobu Su, owner of the shipping company TMT, in his efforts to gain permission to appeal a 2014 judgement in favor of Lakatamia Shipping[36] in which Su was found personally liable for the amount of almost $47m.[37] Black Cube delivered intelligence to Su's legal team showing that 20% of the judgement amount was due to a company called Slagen Shipping, which had ceased operations at the time of the establishment of the claim, thereby rendering it unable to act as a claimant, both reducing the quantum of the judgement significantly, and causing the appeal to be granted.[38]
Kfar Giladi Quarries
Black Cube was hired to assist Kfar Giladi Quarries in their highly publicized dispute with Caesarstone in Israel. Black Cube engaged a Caesarstone engineer in conversation during a group bicycle trip in Kfar Giladi.[10] In the recording, the engineer contradicted the allegations that were made by Caesarstone in the arbitration proceeding with Kfar Giladi. After six years of deliberations, Judge Boaz Okun ordered Caesarstone to pay more than $14m as compensation to Kfar Giladi.[39]
AmTrust Financial Services
In 2016, Black Cube was involved in exposing bribery and corruption in a set of Italian arbitrations between AmTrust and an Italian named Antonio Somma totaling €2bn.[9] Somma admitted to the company's undercover agents that he could control the arbitration panels,[40] and that he had an agreement to pay the chair of the arbitration panel 10% of any money they awarded him.[41] Following Black Cube's findings, the arbitrator was dismissed and in July 2016, the two sides reached a settlement on the total of 60 million euros instead of the initial 2 billion euro claim.[42]
Rami Levy Hashikma Marketing
In 2016, Black Cube was hired by Rami Levy, the owner of Rami Levy Chain Stores Hashikma Marketing who is considered a champion of low prices in Israel,[43] to verify his suspicions that he was being targeted by a rival chain in a negative media campaign. Black Cube provided Levy with evidence that the PR agent who worked for Levy's competitor, Victory supermarket chain, exposed the negative campaign that they carried out aimed at damaging Levy's public reputation. Levy later used those materials in a lawsuit against his competitor.[44]
Alstom and Afcon
In 2016, France's Alstom and its Israeli partner Afcon hired Black Cube to assist them with their dispute against the Israel Railways' electrification bid, which the Spanish company SEMI won. Black Cube presented recordings of officials from the Israel Railway discussing malfunctions that occurred in the bid. Based on these findings in January 2018, the Superior Court in Israel issued an agreement of compromise according to which the work on the railway will be divided between all three of the companies and that Black Cube's clients' work will be priced at 580 million NIS, after they originally lost the bid.[45][20]
Harvey Weinstein
In 2017, Black Cube made headlines after it was revealed that in 2016 the film executive
Gefen Biomed
In 2017, Gefen Biomed filed a NIS 60 million lawsuit which claims that entrepreneurs
Iran Nuclear Deal
In 2017 aides to U.S. President
Project Maple Tree - Project Camouflage
In 2017, Toronto-based
Bank Hapoalim
In 2018, Black Cube was hired by
Viktor Orban's re-election
In 2018, Black Cube supported
Janio Lescure and Judge Oydén Ortega
In 2019, Black Cube uncovered proof of bribery and corruption between lawyer Janio Lescure of Panama and various judges and magistrates in the country, including Judge Oydén Ortega of the Supreme Court.[79][12][80] Black Cube was able to procure audios of Lescure admitting his close relationships with judges, state officials, and mafiosos as well as his ability to control court verdicts, bypass inspections of illegal activities, and avoiding paying taxes.[11][81]
NSO Group
In October 2018,
In February 2019, Associated Press reported that at least four more individuals - three lawyers, and one journalist - were pursued by undercover operatives for their work on NSO. Undercover agents again tried to goad the individuals into making racist or anti-Israel remarks. Channel 12, an Israeli television channel, obtained and aired the secret recordings made by the undercover operatives shortly before the AP published the revelations.[84] Channel 12 confirmed that Black Cube undercover investigators were involved,[85][84] and claimed the individuals being investigated by Black Cube were attempting to smear NSO Group on behalf of Qatar.[85] At the time, Black Cube declined to comment besides a generic reply that it follows the law in all jurisdictions it operates in. An April 2022 article in The New Yorker included more denials from both NSO and Black Cube but included a quote from NSO chief Hulio Shalev that contradicted those denials: “NSO Group has denied hiring Black Cube to target opponents. However, Hulio acknowledged the connection to me, saying, “For the lawsuit in Cyprus, there was one involvement of Black Cube,” because the lawsuit “came from nowhere, and I want to understand.” Black Cube denied involvement in the case in the same article.[86]
Eliezer Fishman
In 2019, Black Cube exposed Eliezer Fishman's hidden assets valued at around €100 million. Fishman, once considered one of Israel's wealthiest businessmen, was declared bankrupt in 2016. Black Cube secretly recorded several meetings with associates of Fishman, which led the London High Court to rule that the businessman had illicitly hidden assets and properties across Europe, mainly Germany, through legal entities, trustees, and representatives.[87][88]
Beny Steinmetz
In May 2020, Black Cube submitted on behalf of
Petróleos Mexicanos
In October 2019, it was revealed that Black Cube recorded evidence of bribery and corruption of senior officials at Mexico's
Mediterranean Oil Spill
In February 2021, an oil spill washed up tar along 160 km of Israel’s Mediterranean coast, resulting in beach closures across the country. The Israeli Environmental Protection Ministry declared it Israel’s worst environmental disaster in its history. Officials estimated that more than 1000 tons of oil had been spilled.[94] The source was unknown, with no ship providing warning of the spill or reporting it. Black Cube, in cooperation with the Israeli environment minister, undertook an investigation on a pro-bono basis and concluded that the ship responsible is owned by the Syrian Malah family via a complex structure of shell companies. The ship is suspected to have been illegally transporting oil from Iran to Syria. Both Israel and the chairman of the compensation fund agreed that the oil was apparently dumped into the sea on purpose during the cleaning out of oil barrels on board, according to a ministry statement.[94]
The tanker was insured by UAE-based Islamic P&I club, which “is solely used by Iranian ship owners that cannot find cover elsewhere” according to
Medista
In 2023, Black Cube was hired by a medical supply company, Medista, to investigate the premature termination of their contract with the Belgian Health Ministry and uncover evidence of collusion between their competitors Movianto and the Belgian government. Medista, claiming that they were unfairly targeted, hired the ex-Mossad spy firm to conduct a series of secret meetings in an attempt to collect evidence to prove that the contracts had been unlawfully awarded to Movianto.[96] Video footage of the meetings between the health official and Black Cube agents, published in the Belgian Media,[97][98][99] reveal how she colluded with their competitors, Movianto, to secure covid-era contracts worth €50 million, issued by the Belgian administration.
Another video recorded by Black Cube showed a manager of Movianto boasting about winning the tender thanks to his “personal contact with the people in charge”. After publication of the video, an internal probe by Belgium’s Federal Internal Audit agency was launched into the tender process. The probe found that the civil servant had made improper disclosures about the award process and failed to adequately protect Medista’s trade secrets.[100]
Controversies
Laura Codruța Kövesi
In April 2016, two of the company employees were arrested, and later convicted, in Bucharest on suspicions of spying, phishing, and cyberharassing the chief prosecutor of the Romanian National Anticorruption Directorate, Laura Codruța Kövesi, and people close to her.[101][17] After sentencing, the company reached an understanding with the Romanian authorities and the two employees were released and returned to Israel after a few months.[102] At the time of the arrest, Black Cube denied any wrongdoing, saying that they were working under contract from the highest political powers in Bucharest and that "all of Black Cube’s employees follow local law to the letter, and the allegations against them are unfounded and untrue".[103][104]
Hungarian election campaign
Between December 2017 and February 2018 Black Cube set up a cover company called Smart Innotech, seated in London, UK, and contacted Hungarian
Russia probe
On 5 April 2019 the
International Advisory Board
- Meir Dagan (Deceased) – Former head of Mossad, Honorary President of the Board.[114]
- Efraim Halevy – Former head of Mossad, headed the National Security Council and the Hebrew University Center for Strategic Studies.[114][115]
- Yohanan Danino – Former Israeli Police Commissioner, served as Chairman of Migdal Insurance Group.[116][117]
- Major General Giora Eiland[118] – Former head of the Israeli National Security Council, headed the IDF's Operation Branch and IDF's Planning Branch.
- Professor Asher Tishler – President of the College of Management Academic Studies[4]
- Brigadier General Mati Leshem[119] – Recipient of the 1997 Israel Defense Prize[120]
- Paul ReyniersPrice Waterhouse and author of GARP (Generally Accepted Risk Principles)[122]
- Itiel Maayan – Member of Microsoft's Customer Advisory Board[121]
- Lieutenant Colonel Golan MalkaNICE Systems
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