Defunct September, 2012 Founded 1999 | Number of employees > 150 worldwide | |
Type Private military security firm Industry Private military and security contractors Headquarters Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany and Towson, Maryland, USA Founders Richard Gates, Torsten Grunert | ||
Private Security and Intelligence Service was a German-American private military company founded in 1999 by Torsten Grunert and Richard Gates.
Based in Germany (Cologne) and in the US (Towson), PSIS operated two secret facilities.
FBI search and closure in September 2012
After a FBI search in the Towson headquarters and a shooting in Cologne, both PSIS facilities were closed in September 2012. It is currently unknown, what the FBI search was about, or if there were any casualties in Cologne.
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