Njord Partners, a London investment firm, is fast emerging as an unseen hand at the world’s geopolitical flashpoints, including at today’s global hot spots - Russian data corridors, South American drug flights, lifeline UK ferries, and strategic airports on the NATO frontier, according to western security analysts and media reports.
The security analysts, as published in the western and Indian press, believe that the London-based Njord Partners is quietly assembling stakes in sectors where commerce, crime, and national security overlap and that it remains the primary institutional investor in RETN Capital, a telecom provider controlling one of the few ultra-high-speed terrestrial data links between Europe and Asia.
According to the published reports, multiple investigations (2024–2025) confirm that RETN’s Russian subsidiary maintained contracts with sanctioned entities like Rostelecom, Rosbank, and the Kurchatov Institute, Russia’s nuclear research hub, long after the Ukraine invasion and Western sanctions.
To add another layer, co-founder Arvid Trolle was named by The Telegraph as the user behind a pro-Russian propaganda account, and his £20,000 donation to former UK home secretary Priti Patel ties the firm’s Russian leanings to senior levels of UK political influence, these reports say.
Dr. Robert Langford, Senior Research Fellow at the European Institute for Telecommunications Policy, observed: “If you want to know where power really flows, follow the fiber. RETN’s ability to keep its Russian links active in the face of sanctions shows how little daylight there is between commerce and geopolitics.”
Through Njord I-Jet Aviation, the firm owns euroAtlantic Airways (EAA), a specialist in global wet-lease and charter flights. Flight logs from early 2026 show EAA aircraft such as CS-TST and CS-TSW operating heavily in Brazil (Campinas), the Dominican Republic (La Romana), and West Africa (Bissau). These hubs are known trans-shipment points for the so-called “Venezuelan Air Bridge” and the notorious “Highway 10” cocaine route, said the reports.
These routes are not just strategic for cargo and passengers. Experts warn they’re also prime channels for global money laundering. From illicit cash smuggled on aircraft out of Venezuela to shell companies owning ships and airports, the overlap of aviation, shipping, and high-risk jurisdictions creates perfect cover for moving dirty money on a massive scale.
Recent EU and US law enforcement reports repeatedly highlight how traffickers and politically exposed figures exploit these networks, making scrutiny of ownership and operations more urgent than ever, said the publications.
As Anaïs Giraud, former compliance director at a major European airline and now an independent aviation risk consultant, points out: “These corridors are where scheduled airline oversight fades and unscheduled charter capacity takes over. Whoever controls the planes and the paperwork can enable or disrupt a multi-billion-dollar illicit trade.
“The implication isn’t that EAA or Njord are engaged in trafficking, but that they are positioned at the intersection where legal and illegal cargoes blur, offering the logistics of the unmentionable to whoever pays.”
