• Air Marshall Sir John Walker: The man who appointed Kevin Halligen CEO of the Inkerman Group. Sir John Walker worked with Qinetiq's Dame Pauline Neville-Jones as Deputy Chairman of the UK Government's Joint Intelligence Committee. He was Chief of Defence Intelligence in the UK and author of pre-war report on invading Iraq. Sarah Hogg - former head of Policy in John Major's Conservative Government and the investor in Brian Kennedy and Control Risks - also invests in Qinetiq. Neville Jones, Hogg and Inkerman boss, Richard Ryder (all BBC Board Members at the time) were jointly responsible for the sacking of Greg Dyke in the aftermath of the Hutton Report and for issuing a dramatic unconditional apology over the affair on behalf of the corporation. The board's patron Tony Blair (and supplier of several private defense contracts to Ryder and Neville-Jones in particular) accepted their apology. The BBC's original story said a government statement that Iraq could deploy weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes was based on false intelligence that officials knew was unreliable.
  
  
• Inkerman Group: First Private Risk & Intelligence Company to hire Kevin Halligen as CEO of Inkermans and Executive Technical Director of the Inkerman Group in May 2003 (he was replaced by Colin Moor - son of Inkerman CEO Gerald Moor in May 2004 as a result of a merger with Swiss companies ViewTec AG and Cyber City AG). Like Control Risks Group they are a business risk and intelligence company with global clients. Staff are drawn from government, defence, security, academic and business backgrounds. Led by Gerald Moor - ex-British Army Officer involved in International Iintelligence including counter terrorism. A prominent members of the Special Forces Club, Moor and Major John Holmes were responsible for admitting Halligen to the Special Forces Club in Knightsbridge. It is alleged that Halligen lost his job at Inkerman in 2003 after Halligen drank Moor’s stocks of champagne and vintage wines.
  
  In 2002 Inkerman announced a strategic partnership with newly privatised Government Defense forum, Qinetiq - headed up by Baroness Pauline-Jones. Inkerman's Senior Driector is Tory Peer Lord Richard Ryder. Previous posts include Political Secretary under Margaret Thatcher and Tory Whip under John Major. Lord Ryder was former colleague of Qinetiq's Pauline Neville Jones in the Conservative Party and also partnered her and Hogg in the BBC/Hutton colleague.
  
  Halligen joined Inkerman in 2002 with John Holmes to work specifically on the Inkerman/Qinetiq partnership, the Minerva Programme - dealing in threat assessment and risk management solutions from vulnerability assessment to forensic-led prosecution. This may help explain why Halligen's business partner, Andre Hollis was lobbying Washington on behalf of the Forensics Sciences Services (Birmingham) in 2008.

Inkerman Press Release from 2003 showing appointment of Halligen as CEO of Inkerman Global

• Cap Gemini - IT company who employed Kevin Halligen prior to his work at Inkerman. In July 2007 Capgemini were awarded a £40 million contract to develop 'ContactBase' for the UK Government's Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF). ContactBase was to be a Government's flagship database which would include detailed information on every child living in England. The £224million computer system was meant to come into operation in April 2008 but was delayed following the loss of data discs containing 25 million child benefit records by HM Revenue & Customs last year, which triggered fears that ContactPoint records could easily find their way into the hands of paedophiles and terrorists. The system is likely to become an integral systems feature of the EU-Wide Alert Scheme - promoted by the McCanns.
  
  
• Colin Moor: Colin took over from Kevin Halligen as Technical Director of Inkerman in May 2004. He had come across to Inkerman after serving 10 years with the Union Bank of Switzerland (1989-1999). The Union Bank of Switzerland (USB) is the Swiss Bank that featured in the Abacha/Nigerian money laundering scandal. Watchwood Resources Ltd, the company that Halligen sub-contracted to whilst working for Trafigura also featured in the famous Nigerian Money Laundering scam, which involved the family of ex-Nigerian Military Dictator, General Abacha. The money was laundered through Swiss and Jersey Financial Institutions. During the trial Watchwood's founder, Jonathan Stamper is alleged to have given instructions to a bank in Jersey to transfer £50,000 using Watchwood Letterhead. Jersey would later return $149 million to the Nigerian Government. Hundreds of millions of dollars are alleged to have been laundered on behalf of the Abacha family through Jersey financial institutions.
  
  Switzerland's federal banking commission reprimanded the Union Bank of Switzerland over a due diligence failure, after being suspected of handling funds linked to Abacha.
  
  
• Major General John Holmes: According to The Times, Holmes was one of the ex-Special Forces officers who put Halligen's name forward in 2002 (the other being Donald Palmer - pal of Sir Stephen Rose of Control Risks Group). The three are alleged to have met through Inkerman and other business arrangements.
  
  Like Raymond Hewlett witness, Peter Verran, John Holmes had served in the Scots Guard. Later he was appointed Special Operations Liaison Officer at the British Embassy in Washington DC (where Halligen relocated). Holmes is likely to be one of the most crucial figures in our understanding of Halligen's business network.
  
  In 2002 Holmes left the services and worked for Inkerman (see entry above), a high profile UK-based security and risk management company where Halligen worked as Executive Technical Director.
  
  During 2003 he completed two main projects - Project Unicorn, for the Metropolitan Police and UK Government which looked at improving cooperation between the Government and the private sector in the fight against Counter-Terrorism effort (the report had been commissioned by the Metropolitan Police).
  
  Holmes also set up SOE (an acronym that recalls Churchill's Special Operations Executive). The Security Operations and Education (SOE) Academy has opened as an holistic training academy dealing in all aspects of security and counter-terrorism awareness. He was also Director at Erinys International, a British-owned security company awarded a multi million pound contract to secure the Iraqi Oil infrastructure by Tony Blair.
  
  Lord Richard Ryder - Director at Inkerman, Political Secretary to the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Chief Tory Whip under John Major. Ryder was Chairman and Acting Chairman of the BBC from 2002 to 2006 - eventually replacing Gavyn Davies who resigned over Blair and the board of govenor's bully-boy handling of the David Kelly affair. Davies resigned following the criticism of the BBC in the Hutton Report, which was set up to investigate "the circumstances surrounding the death of Dr David Kelly". One of Ryder's first acts as Chairman was to give a televised statement, during which he offered an unreserved apology for the mistakes made during the Dr. Kelly affair. Ryder's BBC Colleagues at this time were BBC Govenors Sarah Hogg (of 3i investments) and Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones of Qinetiq. Also a member of the Carlton Club - one of the oldest, most elite, and most important of all Conservative clubs in the UK (members include Winston Churchill). Ryder played no small part in the backbench uprising over the Maastricht Treaty (the biggest shake up to the EU prior to the Lisbon Treaty). Major narrowly succeeded by 40 votes in a referendum to have it ratified. Ryder was a prominent member of the so-called 'Kitchen Cabinet' whose job it was to keep the heat off Major during his leadership. Other members included Sarah Hogg, Jonathan Hill (replaced by Howell James) Tim Collins and Christopher Meyer. Graduate of Magdalene College, Cambridge. Represented Murat's hometown of Norfolk as MP.
  
  Chimera Partnership Ltd/Red Defence Ltd: The first companies to be set up by Kevin Halligen and former British Officer and Inkerman employee, Tim Craig-Harvey. Educated at the prestigious Marlborough College, the former Business Development Manager at BAE Systems currently heads up CHS Partnership LLP (registered September 2009 at Julco House, City of Westminster, London) and Vigil Limited.
  
  Both Chimera and Red Defence were registered to 113-113a Jermyn Street, London, SW1Y 6HJ - as are RICHARD GUESS PROPERTIES LIMITED and RADAR CAPITAL LTD (owned by Richard Guess - the 'Petrol Station King' and George Bower respectively).
  
  The flat where Red Defence and Chimera were registered to at Jermyn Street was sold at auction and at a greatly reduced price in September 2009.
  
  Richard Guess also owns the splendid Rowleys Restaurant on the first floor of 113 Jermyn Street. He is a real estate investor.
  
  According to its now defunct www.reddefence.com website Red Defence, specialised in Crisis Prevention for Private and Corporate Clients. The accompany blurb read: "Our aim is to safeguard our private and corporate clients and their revenue by creating conditions for them to live and conduct business safely and profitably in challenging and emerging markets and countries. This is achieved through a combination of human, procedural, physical and technical means. RDI is based in Central London, with a presence in Washington DC and Virginia, and representation in the Middle East, Africa and Central America. Areas include: Commodities, Defence industry, Security, Communications, International governments, High net worth individuals."

• Tim Craig Harvey: British Army Officer, trained at Sandhurst and former Inkerman employee who set up Chimera Partnership and Red Defence with Kevin Halligen. Tim's brother Nicholas is the brother-in-law of the 12th Duke of Northumberland (one of Britain's richest landowners). He was previously Business Development Manager at BAE Systems. His new project The CHS partnership (registered in September 2009, No OC348409) is based at 26-28 Great Portland Street - the same address as Collins Benson Goldhill - a highly respected firm of commercial and property lawyers. Previous employees include Inkermans Group.
  
  Member of the cheerfully over-priveleged Hawkhurst's Men - a club for those with peerages and those wishing they had peerages in the village of Hawkhurst Kent. Other members include Patrick Stewart-Blacker another former military officer (trained at Sandhurst) and Project Director at IVC Media Ltd, Cordless Consultants and Project Perfection Ltd and Nicholas John Edwards CEO at an Assets Company with Offices in London, Dubai and New York (plus other assorted solicitors, hedge fund managers, surveyors, hotel designers, yacht brokers, public relations men and embezzlers).
  
  
• Major Donald Palmer: Former Scots Guard and SAS pal of Sir Michael Rose of Control Risks Group. Put the name of Kevin Halligen forward for entry into the Special Forces Club in Knightsbridge London. Made chairman of Special Forces Club in 1998. Rose was appointed at the same time as President. Palmer now heads up Crisis Management at Kroll inc - a global risk consultancy in London. Kroll Intelligence were recently bought out by iJet. Johan Selle - Director of Operations at iJet - was responsible for handling the Find Madeleine phone lines launched by Halligen in 2007. Kroll were responsible for revamping security at the World Trade Center after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. They hired former FBI special investigator John O'Neill, specializing on Osama Bin Laden to head the security at the WTC complex just prior to September the 11th 2001. He was killed when the towers collapsed.
  
  
• Andre Hollis - Chief-Executive at Halligen's Oakley International. In 2007-2008 was Vice President of Van Scoyoc Associates, a powerful lobbying firm that performs services on behalf of the British Embassy's Defense Procurement programme. Hollis - a former Marine - was the US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense. Hollis was the senior Department official responsible for efforts to train and equip security forces in Colombia and Afghanistan. Regular Defense commentator on Fox News.
  
  
• Van Scoyoc: Powerful lobbying company in the US. Is registered as a foreign agent of the United Kingdom's Defense Research projects. Employ's Halligen's partner Andre Hollis. Van Scoyoc also won a Pentagon/Boeing deal for Vulture, an unmanned endurance vehicle developed by the British-based Qinetiq in a deal with American Aerospace. Performed lobbying to 3i and Qinetiq project Ricardo UK and the Forensic Science Services based in Birmingham (in a deal that benefits both Brian Kennedy/Control Risk's investor Sarah Hogg of 3i Private Equity and Qinetiq - UK's Privatised Defense company).
  
  
• Forensic Science Services: Based in Birmingham and resposisble for handling all the major DNA testing for the Portuguese Police during the McCann Investigations. Due to be privatised under Brown and looking for investors. Headed by Simon Bennet - former Managing Director of Qinetiq - the former Government Defence Company run by Baroness Neville-Jones.