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 Laurie Kazan-Allen, the founder of the International Ban Asbestos Secretariat (IBAS). He saw her as his way into the wider international network. “Moore was given a passport resulting from his acceptance by me,” Kazan-Allen said. “He has misled us and compromised our life’s work… I am gravely concerned that through my actions I may have, unwittingly, compromised the effectiveness and even lives of key Ban Asbestos activists.”