ERINYS UK, Ltd.; TITON International Ltd.; and RISC Management

Erinys UK, Ltd. and Titon International Ltd., 25 Grosvenor Street, What do we really know about them? Why does the Polonium-210 trail take us to 25 Grosvenor Street? What was Alexander Litvinenko doing for Erinys UK and Trition International? Is it a coincidence that Boris Berezovsky owns 25 Grosvenor Street, London W1K 4QN, as part of his extensive property portfolio.
What about RISC Management? There were traces of Polonium-210 there, too.

ERINYS International Ltd. Erinys is a British security company with an unparalleled reputation for delivering professional services under the most demanding of conditions, to a client base representative of the world’s leading corporations, and governments. Managed by industry recognized and respected personnel, the Group has regional offices and an operational footprint on 3 continents. With global experience in nationwide security projects, personal protection, training and site security, the Company has unique operational expertise in the petroleum, construction and mineral extraction industries. Erinys International and its subsidiaries have built a small but prestigious client base encompassing predominantly the petroleum, mining, power generation and telecommunications industry.

Erinys Ltd.
25 Grosvenor Street
London W1K 4QN
United Kingdom

Erinys' corporate management includes:
Jonathan Garratt
Michael Hutchings MA, MBA, psc, DipM MCIM
Fraser Brown
Peter Roberts LLB (Hons) FCCA
Maj Gen John Holmes DSO, OBE, MC
Jonathan Eldridge MA, Erinys Africa
Shindi Poonia, Erinys Iraq

Erinys can provide a global personal protection service, indigenous or expatriate, encompassing overt high threat environments through to more covert scenarios requiring tact and discretion. Operatives, male and female, are fully trained and, where applicable, their weapon handling skills and counter-surveillance techniques are current. In all cases individuals act within the law of the country in which they are deployed and abide by appropriate regulatory requirements. In addition to personnel protection, Erinys offers a range of electronic measures, including electronic counter-measures, to help counter the threat to an individual and or his business.



TITON International Ltd. Titon International Ltd is an independent Business Intelligence Company providing a wide range of bespoke security and intelligence services to the commercial world both in the UK and Overseas. All Titon services are necessarily discreet and precisely tailored to the client’s requirement, client confidentiality is of paramount importance to us and is always guaranteed. Titon is conveniently based in Mayfair, central London. The Group also has associates in Geneva, Moscow, Houston and Bangkok as well as strong links into the Middle East and Africa.

The Titon Group Comprises: Titon International Ltd, Titon Computer Security and Forensics Ltd (TCSF), and Titon Vetting Services Ltd (TVS). The Group Chief Executive is a recently retired Director of UK Special Forces, who in 2003/04 headed Project Unicorn for the Metropolitan Police. The aim of the Project was to consider what the commercial sector in London could do to help the UK Counter-Terrorist effort. The Head of the Investigative Branch of the Company is a commercial investigator with some 15 years experience at management level. In addition to his investigative skills he also has considerable experience in the gaming industry. Other members of staff are similarly experienced.

Titon International, Ltd.
25 Grosvenor Street
London W1K 4QN
United Kingdom

Titon Services include (1) Investigative investigations, due diligence for/on companies/deals/proposals, asset tracing, measures to counter industrial/commercial espionage and intrusion; (2) Individual pre employment screening, office security awareness for high level personal assistants, stalking and harassment, high value matrimonial investigations; (3) Electronic IT security assessments, including IT forensic investigation, IT incident response, electronic counter measures, communications security; and (4) Casino Gaming Security Design and policy, procedures, training, and investigations.


RISC Management a London based company, provides cost effective risk assessment, corporate intelligence and security services. Our in-house multi-disciplinary team of professionals and technical experts deliver vital information, intelligence and strategic advice to clients enabling them to make sound judgments and decisions about their activities. We work with clients worldwide, using our highly developed and extensive global network of associates and commissioned operatives. RISC has built up unrivaled knowledge and experience in the management of risk in the competitive international business environment. Working as an outsourced provider, we add value to our client operations by offering up-to-date information about risk in a specific industry and the relevant management process within it. As well as helping clients at a strategic planning level, we offer on-the-ground operational support, including project management capability and resources. Our services are particularly valuable to organizations taking investment decisions for projects planned in locations where existing knowledge and experience of risk is limited or uncertain. The key to our business approach is innovative thinking and knowledge sharing with clients, finding speedy solutions to sometimes complex problems and issues.

RISC Management
No. 1 Cavendish Place
London W1G 0QF
United Kingdom

Possible explanations:

Exclusive: Murdered ex-KGB officer was working for British security company Larisa Alexandrovna, in The Raw Story, published December 6, 2006, describes the employment relationship between Alexander Litvinenko and ERINYS. This is an excellent article.

Litvinenko was consulting two British security companies
Alexander Litvinenko was working for a British security firm at the time of his death, The Raw Story, an alternative news nexus, reports, referring to “two well-placed British sources who wish to remain unidentified”. The two separate British sources have confirmed that Litvinenko was working on contract for Erinys International Ltd. The office of this security and risk management company was among the 12 to 24 polonium contamination sites in the Piccadilly area of London identified by British authorities.

According to one of the sources, Erinys is trying to break into the Russian [security and intelligence] market and Litvinenko was the front man introducing them to all sorts of people. The source expanded that the reason Litvinenko was meeting at Erinys' offices around the time of his contamination was to broker a deal of some sort with a Russian security start-up being created by Andrei Lugovoy and Dmitry Kovtun. An American intelligence official suggested that Litvinenko was trying to get Erinys a security contract with one of the state-owned energy firms and speculated that this could be a reason why the FSB might have allegedly assassinated Litvinenko, The Raw Story writes.

Some US intelligence experts believe that Litvinenko was lured into the meetings by Kovtun and Lugovoy on the pretext of helping Erinys extend its interests in Russia, while others believe there was a genuine and legitimate business relationship with no sinister motive behind the meetings. British authorities, however, have refrained from commenting on the questions surrounding Erinys and Litvinenko’s employment with the firm, online site marks.

Nev Johnson, one of the two Foreign and Commonwealth Office press officers with responsibility for intelligence, primarily MI6, explained to The Raw Story that the continuing probe makes it difficult to confirm or discuss the issues surrounding the case. "The ongoing investigation into the death of Mr Litvinenko precludes providing background details about his activities and location prior to his death," said Johnson. "To do so might seriously compromise the police investigation and any criminal prosecution which might be undertaken."

In its turn the Financial Times has learned that Litvinenko was paid as a consultant for information on Russian businesses, by Titon International, a London-based business intelligence company. Titon’s website says it “provides a wide range of bespoke security and intelligence services to the commercial world”. A senior executive with Titon International told The Financial Times that Litvinenko had worked for the company and that its offices in London had been closed by police after traces of polonium-210 radiation had been found. There is no suggestion that Litvinenko was poisoned in the building, paper adds.

Litvinenko and Titon International Larisa Alexandrovna, at-Largely blog is the first (on December 13, 2006) to connect-the-dots between Erinys and Titon.

Search for killer of ex-spy a daunting task Kevin Cullen, The Boston Globe, reported that "...like others who surfaced here after working in the Russian secret services, Litvinenko carved out a new career by helping steer British-based businesses toward the Russian market. A former US Marine now working for an international security firm said Litvinenko was on the payrolls of at least two security firms. The former Marine, speaking on the condition he was not identified, said Litvinenko and other former KGB and FSB officers sell themselves as consultants, able to guide legitimate companies through the Byzantine business world in Russia where the legitimate and illegitimate merge."

Erinys' Document Leaker? Larisa Alexandrovna, in her blog, at-Largely, as the question, "Now if it is true that the dossier was "deliberately leaked" then would it also not follow that someone at the "British company" may have done the leaking in an attempt to force a business deal?"

On the Trail of Mr. X LaRussophobe reports that "Apparently, a British firm called Titon International may have hired Litvinenko to perform a due diligence investigation of Victor Ivanov prior to Titon's client commencing a major transaction with Aeroflot, and when the dossier turned over by Litvinenko turned up dirt on Ivanov, the deal was queered. Litvinenko then showed the dossier to Lugovoi, a Kremlin double agent who turned the material over to Ivanov, resulting in the Kremlin-connected oligarch deciding to strike down Litvinenko. Apparently, they were motivated not only by the lost value of the deal, but even more importantly by the information contained in the dossier and the possibility of future such outbreaks of information (which might expose high-level corruption). Obviously, the firm that hired Titon is in a position to say whether it received a dossier from Titon on Ivanov and whether it queered a deal with Aeroflot or not. Apparently, so far Titon is not revealing the name of its client." This is a most interesting report, which underscores the importance of pursuing a Erinys-Titon coincidence or conspiracy theory.

Update on Litvinenko laRussophobe confirms in this updated story that Litvinenko was employed by Titon (which has a sister company, Erinys) International to perform due diligence background checks on Russian officials, company officers and owners for investors, information reported by Larisa Alexandrovna at At Largely and by Litvinenko's colleague Yuri Shvets to the BBC's Tom Mangold (and if Shvets's previous information of a $100,000 contract with Titon is true, then Litvinenko was hardly "penniless," as Julia Svetlichnaja-Svetlichnaya claimed, by the way)