UK Federal Law Enforcement Agency
£10M in hidden criminal assets traced in the first month — including properties purchased without mortgages that existing tools had failed to uncover.
£10M Hidden criminal assets identified
20× Investment growth
40+ Police forces
Challenge
Centralised intelligence requests delaying 30-day case windows
Solution
An enterprise-wide OSINT graph platform put data in investigators’ hands
Result
£10M in hidden assets identified in the first month
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Centralised intelligence requests delaying 30-day case windows
The agency was routing OSINT requests through a centralized unit, creating delays for investigators working against strict 30-day regulatory windows. The legacy provider lacked trade data, property records, and cross-border connectivity needed to trace criminal networks.
An enterprise-wide OSINT graph platform put data in investigators’ hands
Rather than positioning the platform as a replacement, the team argued that the entire request-based investigative model was broken. The champion embedded “real data or real source” criteria into formal procurement.
£10M in hidden assets identified in the first month
Investigment grew more than 20× from the legacy provider’s annual cost, with 56% expansion in under 12 months. The partnership now spans coordination across 40+ police forces.
The challenge
Your direct suppliers are screened. Their suppliers are not.
Modern economic crime operates across borders, through layered corporate structures, and with sophisticated financial engineering designed to defeat legacy investigation tools. Law enforcement agencies that rely on traditional corporate data providers — built for credit assessment rather than criminal investigation — face critical intelligence gaps when tracing illicit assets, mapping organized crime networks, and building prosecutable cases.
The agency was routing open-source intelligence requests through a centralized unit, creating delays for investigators working against strict 30-day regulatory windows. The agency’s legacy corporate data provider cost six figures annually but lacked the trade data, property records, and cross-border connectivity needed to trace criminal networks operating through shell companies, real estate holdings, and international supply chains. Investigators were stitching together partial views of complex, cash-intensive businesses, an approach that consistently left gaps in the evidentiary chain.
- Centralized OSINT request unit creating delays against strict 30-day case windows
- Legacy provider lacked trade data, property records, and cross-border connectivity
- £100K+ annual cost for an investigative capability inadequate to the mission
- Investigators stitching together partial views with consistent gaps in evidentiary chain
The solution
Solution
Deployed Sayari Graph for beneficial ownership resolution
The results
Sub-tier visibility now operational across the full supply chain
The agency’s investigative model has been transformed. Investigators who once waited in a queue for centralized intelligence requests now access data directly, in real time, on live cases. The agency that traced £10M in hidden assets in its first month of deployment now operates with that capability as its baseline. The platform is positioned to become the corporate data layer underpinning the agency’s entire investigative and analytical environment for the next three years and beyond.
£10M
Hidden criminal assets identified in the first month
40+
Police forces in coordinated rollout
56%
Expansion in under 12 months
“Investigators who once waited in a queue for centralized intelligence requests now access data directly, in real time, on live cases.”
Deputy Director, Financial Investigator
UK Federal Law Enforcement Agency
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