Black Cube
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| Private Limited Company | |
| Industry | Litigation Support Competitive Intelligence Risk Consulting |
| Founded | 2010 |
| Headquarters | Tel Aviv, Israel |
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Number of employees
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75-100 |
| Website | www.blackcube.com |
Black Cube (in Hebrew: בלאק קיוב) is a private intelligence agency, which operates out of London, Paris and Tel Aviv, and is the trading name of BC Strategy Ltd. The company was founded in 2010 by former Israeli intelligence officers Dan Zorella (in Hebrew: דן זורלא) and Avi Yanus (in Hebrew: אבי ינוס) and draws its manpower from elite and secretive Israeli intelligence units. The company’s personnel are known to maintain close ties to the Israeli government and intelligence agencies.
Black Cube’s primary field of operation is litigation support, where the company provides intelligence, evidence and strategic advisory services in multi-jurisdictional lawsuits.
Beginning in 2011, Black Cube provided intelligence services to Vincent Tchenguiz in a number of cases, including Tchenguiz’s fight against the UK Serious Fraud Office, following his arrest as part of the SFO investigation into the collapse of the Icelandic bank Kaupthing. Black Cube analysed the network of relationships surrounding the collapse of the bank, and helped build a successful challenge to the SFO arrests and search warrants, causing the judge to declare the SFO’s actions unlawful in 2013. Following this investigation the SFO was ordered by the court to pay over £3m to Tchenguiz in 2014, and to issue a formal apology. The case file constructed by Black Cube is currently being used by Tchenguiz as the basis for a claim of £2.2bn against the accounting firm Grant Thornton.
In 2014, Black Cube were hired by Israeli businessman Nochi Dankner, to examine a court decision assigning control of IDB Holding Corp. Ltd. (TASE:IDBH) to Motti Ben Moshe. Black Cube investigated the sources of capital of Ben Moshe, revealing an ongoing investigation by German regulatory authorities into Ben Moshe’s company ExtraEnergy, and locating a witness who held evidence of money laundering and tax evasion by Ben Moshe.
Black Cube was hired to assist Microgil Agricultural Cooperative Society Ltd in their highly-publicised dispute with Caeserstone (NASDAQ:CSTE). Black Cube managed to provide them a recording of a senior executive at Caesarstone during a bicycle ride operation, which totally contradicted Caesarstone's claims. This recording may cost Caesarstone $53 million, the sum Microgil is claiming in the arbitration process which is still ongoing.
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