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Ghost Directors and Shell Companies: Disrupting UK High Street Crime

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Transnational organised crime (TOC) networks are exploiting the UK’s corporate registration system to hide illicit activities, threatening national, human, and financial security. Recent High Street money laundering cases highlight how TOC networks conceal beneficial ownership through fronts and shell companies.

Despite success in generating and hiding millions in illegal proceeds, these networks are not fully opaque. Sayari helps law enforcement scale its resources and reduce workloads by collecting, aggregating, and linking millions of records, accelerating case resolutions against these networks and their deception tactics.

Read this analytical report for a High Street crime case study demonstrating how Sayari’s market-leading data and risk intelligence automate access and analysis of critical records, enhancing investigations against criminal activity.

You’ll learn:

  • The critical role of corporate ownership records in exposing criminal networks engaged in High Street crime
  • Techniques for uncovering the entities behind illicit networks, not just their associated businesses
  • Scalable methods for targeting typological risk indicators like shared addresses and company churn
  • How to connect risky cash-intensive businesses to other companies potentially engaged in money laundering or related predicate crimes

Ready to expose hidden networks? Download the report to move from fragmented data to a unified view of corporate risk.