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The Nauti-Octopus statue outside the Palais de Justice in Brussels on 17 December 2024: Kazakhstan’s tentacles reached into private home (Photo: EUobserver )

Investigation

Rear Window: How a UK firm spied on target in the EU capital

Belgium has drawn a thin red line against illicit surveillance in the EU capital, in a trial that exposed the “creepy” modus operandi of a British private-eye firm. 

It was a rainy Saturday shortly after 4PM on 5 August 2017 in Place du Châtelain in Brussels, a trendy area popular with expats, when Bota Jardemalie, a now 48-year-old Kazakh lawyer and refu...

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

The Nauti-Octopus statue outside the Palais de Justice in Brussels on 17 December 2024: Kazakhstan’s tentacles reached into private home (Photo: EUobserver )

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

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