Security expert was ‘double agent’, claims former employer

A Virginia-based investigation and security consulting firm turned its resources on one of its own senior officers – a Guernsey-based former British paratrooper – in order to expose his activities as a ‘double agent’ who was working on behalf of a British Virgin Islands-domiciled competitor he had secretly set up, it has been claimed.
Vance International Inc., a.k.a. GardaWorld, claims its internal investigation discovered that, while serving as Vance’s Managing Director, International Security Operations, Paul Wood was conspiring with two of his Vance colleagues, Dennis Trussler and John Lee, to steal Vance’s trade secrets, poach key staff and solicit its clients – all for the benefit of Vida Elan Limited, which they had established in the BVI.