Tracking a Princess: Using Public Records to Trace the Assets of Africa’s Richest Woman
Grand corruption, or corruption involving senior government officials and large sums of money, is a global problem. Such grand corruption [...]
Reports
The Value of Public Data: Uncovering Ultimate Beneficial Ownership of Offshore Companies
From government agencies tracking criminal networks to financial institutions performing due diligence, ultimate beneficial ownership (UBO) discovery remains a pressing [...]
Tracing Illicit Gold From Colombia Through Global Supply Chains
The illegal gold trade is a multibillion dollar industry that endangers national security and the natural environment. Transnational criminal organizations [...]
Identifying Trade-Based Money Laundering Risk Using Public Data: An Analysis of the Nader Farhat Network in Paraguay and the U.S.
Trade-based money laundering (TBML) remains one of the most viable ways for criminals to slip under the radar and move [...]
Three Strategies to Identify Potential Chinese Military End Users
Navigating various regulations on Chinese military companies can be a challenge for compliance teams. How to determine whether a Chinese [...]
The Tajideen Network: The Role of Familial Networks in Hezbollah Terror Financing
The Tajideen network is but one example of an alleged terror financing network that remains active despite several of its [...]
Automating UBO Discovery Without Beneficial Ownership Registries
Now, more than ever, financial institutions need to know who they’re in business with. This starts with knowing who really [...]
The World’s Largest Shareholders: Understanding China’s National and Regional SASACs
Anyone investigating China’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs) will eventually come across their primary owner, one of the State-owned Assets Supervision and [...]
The World’s Largest Shareholders: Understanding China’s National and Regional SASACs
SASACs exist to manage government assets, specifically SOEs, on behalf of the state. Anyone investigating China’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs) will [...]
Offshores, Seafood Companies, and Real Estate: Unpacking the Barrera Palacios Money Laundering Network in Peru
We break down how a family network leveraged offshore companies in the British Virgin Islands, along with Peru-based fishing and [...]