CBS:
BAC Consulting shares the ground floor of a modest building in Budapest with numerous other enterprises, but has no physical offices and uses the property in Hungary's capital - like the other companies based there - only as an official address, according to a woman who emerged from the building earlier this week and refused to be named.
The company's website said it specialized in "environment, development, and international affairs." The corporate registry listed 118 official functions including sugar and oil production, retail jewelry sales and natural gas extraction.
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[The CEO's mother] said her daughter was born in Sicily and studied at the University of Catania before pursuing a Ph.D. in London. She worked in Paris and Vienna before moving to Budapest in October 2016 to care for her elderly grandmother.
On social media, the [the CEO] describes herself as a strategic adviser and business developer who has worked for major international organizations as well as for venture capital firms. Her company's website says she has a doctorate in physics.
She speaks seven languages, has a PhD in particle physics, an apartment in Budapest plastered with her own pastel drawings of nudes, and a career that took her around Africa and Europe doing humanitarian work.
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In the early 2000s she earned her PhD in physics at University College London, where her dissertation on positrons - a subatomic particle with the mass of an electron and a positive charge - remains available on the UCL website, opens new tab. But she appears to have left without pursuing a scientific career.
"As far as I know she has not done scientific work since then"
Archived version of the company's website, including her profile. Possibly her Pinterest.
Bellingcat describes its efforts to locate the company's possibly imaginary "Business Development Manager."