A private detective agency hired by a Kazakhstan multinational company linked to the asbestos industry has been spying on a United Nations health agency and the international anti-asbestos movement for the last four years. The global spying operation, codenamed Project Spring, was the brainchild of K2 Intelligence. Corporate spy Robert Moore specifically targeted Barry Robson, a former senior official with the Maritime Union of Australia and the current president of the Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia, Andrew Ramsay, a senior Queensland official with the CFMEU, and Andrew Dettmer, national president of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union.