Reply #1: Erinys International Ltd.

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Beyond the sushi bar, traces of radiation have been detected at several more sites, including Litvinenko's home, a hotel he visited, the offices of Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky and the offices of Erinys, a security and risk management company.

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/11/30/uk.spy.italian.reut/index.html

Erinys International Ltd. was established by ex-Apartheid era official Sean Cleary and Jonathan Garratt in 2002, and provides an array of services to the military-corporate-oil-spook-mafia complex.


A UK security firm linked to two of Britain's top ex-SAS men is at the centre of a prisoner 'abuse' row after photographs revealed employees interrogating a terrified Iraqi youth in a garage in Kirkuk. Pictures obtained by The Observer show two employees of Erinys restraining the 16-year-old Iraqi with six car tyres around his body. The photographs, taken last May, show the boy frozen with fear in a room where the wall appeared to be marked by bullet holes.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1350866,00.html


In Greek mythology, the Erinys were three goddesses, attendants of Hades and Persephone, who guarded the Underworld.

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=8328

While the company does not appear in international business directories and is only a year old, its website names five managers and directors, but does not identify its ownership structure: most of whom have been affiliated with Armor Holdings, a Florida-based security company and Defence Systems Limited, a British company which merged with Armor in 1997.

A former British Special Air Services (SAS) officer, director Alastair Morrison was co-founder and CEO of Defence Systems from 1981 to 1999. Morrison is currently affiliated with Armor Holdings, in which he holds $2.1 million worth of stock. Fraser Brown, who directs Erinys' security operations, has worked for DSL/Armor since 1999. Jonathan Garratt, Erinys' managing director, has worked for DSL and Armor since 1992. The two other Erinys officials named on the website have no apparent ties to either company: Sean Cleary is a South African risk management expert while Bill Elder previously worked as Bechtel's corporate security manager.


* Security Services and Consultancy: The security division is directed by former senior members of the UK armed forces with extensive experience in providing security to the private sector with clients such as the UN, US and UK governments, the international petrochemical industry and commerce.
* Emergency Action Planning & Crisis Management: Assessments of potentially damaging scenarios.
* Specialist Manpower: Available for all levels of security, training and project management.
* Site Security: Consultancy, audits, provisions, training, personnel, and equipment
* Guard Force Management
* Transportation and Logistics Security: Extensive experience in airline, rail, sea and overland travel including high value goods and cash in transit.
* Human Resources: Specialist, managed manpower for support operations in remote sites<2>


http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Erinys_International_Ltd.


Chalabis:

Erinys Iraq

Erinys Iraq Ltd, which won an $80 million contract last August from the Coalition Provisional Authority to provide security for the oil infrastructure in Iraq, has had some powerful alliances in Iraq.

* Erinys set up a Joint Venture with Nour USA Ltd. which was incorporated in America in May '03. Nour's founder is Abul Huda Farouki, a wealthy Jordanian-American who lives in northern Virginia and whose companies have done extensive construction work for the Pentagon. Nour's website describes the company as a collaborative "arrangement" between HAIFinance, a Farouki family company, and a Jordanian venture called the Munir Sukhtan Group
* Farouki's businesses established $12 million of loans from the Petra International Banking Corporation in the 1980s, which was managed at the time by Ahmed Chalabi's nephew, Mohammed Chalabi. The Jordanian government says this was part of a massive embezzlement scheme involving Chalabi and a bank he owned in Jordan.
* A founding partner and the director of Erinys Iraq is Faisal Daghistani. Faisal is the son of Tamara Daghinstani who played a large role in the development of Ahmed Calabi's Iraqi National Congress
* The firm's cousel in Baghdad has been Chalabi's nephew, Salem Chalabi
* Many among the 14,000 guards recruited by Erinys to protect the oil infrastructure came directly from the Iraqi Free Forces, a militia that had been loyal to Chalabi's movement.