Customs and Border Records

• Contains official import/export data, shipping routes, and merchandise declarations.
• Allows comparison of declared agricultural goods against actual shipment volumes and routes.
• Identifies inconsistencies in product type or quantity that may indicate trade-based manipulation involving farming or livestock.

• Documents the cross-border movement of goods and people, including shipping routes, imported/exported items, and related customs declarations.

• Helps identify suspicious shipments transiting conflict zones or embargoed jurisdictions, highlighting possible arms-related contraband hidden within declared cargo.

• Contains import/export declarations, shipping routes, and documentation of artworks crossing borders.
• Identifying frequent cross-border transportation or free-trade zone usage reveals patterns of potential laundering through minimized oversight and undisclosed beneficial ownership in the art market.

• Reflects declarations of imported and exported items and identifies instances of transporting bearer instruments across borders.
• Flags incomplete or missing disclosures relevant to the physical movements of bearer certificates.
• Aids investigations by pinpointing cross-border transfer routes frequently used to conceal the origin or destination of bearer instruments.

Shows whether the declared goods in a Bill of Exchange transaction actually crossed borders and in what quantity, helping identify phantom shipments or misrepresented cargo.

Contain official import and export information, including product types, shipping routes, declared values, and tariffs. By cross-referencing these records with transaction and trade documentation data, investigators can detect discrepancies or inconsistencies indicative of Black Market Peso Exchange, such as under-invoicing, over-invoicing, or smuggling patterns.

• Maintains official records on imported and exported goods, including shipping routes, tariffs paid, and customs declarations.
• Facilitates detection of repeated amendments, forged filings, re-labeled goods, or suspicious changes in product descriptions within bonded warehouses, indicative of possible illicit layering or misrepresentation.

• Provides official data from customs and border authorities on imported and exported goods, including declared contents, shipping routes, and tariffs.
• Enables verification of repeated or cyclical shipment patterns inconsistent with genuine trade flows, helping identify potential carousel schemes where the same goods are re-imported and re-exported among related entities.

• Provides records of cross-border movements of individuals and goods.
• Captures declared or discovered currency amounts, travel routes, frequencies, and inspection outcomes.
• Enables AML investigators to identify travelers carrying large sums of cash, spot repeated use of specific routes, and detect patterns of structuring amounts below reporting thresholds.

• Contains official documentation of imported or exported goods, shipping routes, and declared duties.
• Helps verify the authenticity of tobacco shipment declarations, duty-free claims, and cross-border transit details.
• Supports detection of manipulated or missing customs documentation that may conceal smuggling activities.

• Provides official trade manifests, customs export/import filings, shipping routes, and declared cargo details.
• Validates the actual physical movement of goods across borders, helping detect phantom shipments or duplicated routes indicative of circular trade schemes.

• Contains import and export declarations, shipping fees, and routing details related to the cross-border movement of goods.
• Enables detection of abnormally high shipping or import fees for collectibles that exceed typical costs, indicating possible layering.
• Corroborates declared valuations and routes for collectible shipments, helping reveal discrepancies or potential cost manipulation.

• Encompasses official records on cross-border movements of goods, shipping routes, and declared categories.
• Cross-checks declared exports or imports of environmental or wildlife products against actual shipments.

These records help detect misdeclared or concealed goods, identifying potential commingling of illicit shipments with legitimate trade flows.

Provides official data on cross-border movements of goods, including declared volumes, routes, and tariffs. This allows investigators to identify anomalies in repeated shipments, suspicious border crossings, and inconsistent commodity declarations that may suggest smuggling.

• Details import and export activity, including declared goods, shipping routes, and related documentation.
• Helps confirm whether shipments align with declared commodities, identifying potential misreporting of illicit goods.
• Provides a cross-reference point to detect inconsistencies between financial transactions and physical shipments.

Documents declared shipping routes, destinations, and actual goods movement.

• Permits verification of declared commodity routes and transit points.
• Helps detect suspicious free trade zone usage, last-minute rerouting, or unexplained detours commonly exploited in commodity-based laundering.

Contains comprehensive records of goods entering or leaving a country, details on shipping routes, bills of lading, and declared contents. This supports the detection of cross-border shipments of counterfeit pharmaceuticals and enables targeted AML investigations of illicit trade routes.

Includes official import/export data, shipping routes, commodity classifications, and declared values. This data helps investigators:

• Detect repeated shipments of the same commodities without clear commercial rationale.
• Analyze cross-border flows for suspicious patterns, such as unclaimed or returned goods.

• Covers entry and exit data for individuals, goods, or currency across national borders.
• Correlates the physical transport of assets by local agents with suspicious transaction spikes.
• Supports the detection of undeclared or repeated cross-border cash movements linked to the same beneficiaries or accounts.

• Provide official records of declared and inspected currency at border checkpoints.
• Detail individuals' or shipments' cross-border movements, enabling the detection of suspicious or inconsistent declarations.
• Support case investigations by confirming travel dates, entry/exit points, and associated documentation that may reveal undeclared cash smuggling activity.

• Provides official documentation of declared cash amounts and cross-border movements at entry/exit points.
• Enables verification of the stated amounts against the actual physical movement of currency.
• Helps detect repeated or suspicious declarations inconsistent with legitimate travel or transactional patterns.

Comprehensive documentation of the movement of goods and people across borders, including declarations, shipping routes, and related details. This data assists in identifying physical cash smuggling routes near conflict-prone or minimally supervised regions and detecting mismatched or incomplete customs declarations linked to illicit cross-border activity.

• Includes official import/export entries, shipping manifests, and customs clearances.
• Supports verification of whether purported cross-border shipments actually occurred, exposing fabricated or inconsistently reported settlement documents.

• Official data on the movement of individuals and cash across international borders.
• Reveals instances where large sums of cash are physically transported to exploit off-book or unofficial exchange rates.
• Assists investigators in correlating unreported cross-border movements with subsequent suspicious currency conversions.

Encompasses official import and export data, shipping routes, and related customs documentation, illuminating:

• Frequent use of informal or unregistered couriers for large quantities of consumer goods.
• Multiple shipping addresses or varying beneficiary names tied to the same entities.

These details allow AML teams to correlate irregular goods movements, repeated shippers, and declared values, revealing high-risk patterns consistent with Daigou networks.

• Contains official records of cross-border movements of goods, including item descriptions, declared values, shipping routes, and customs forms.
• Allows investigators to detect inconsistencies in declared diamond shipments, identify unusual trans-shipment points, and verify if shipments bypass or misdeclare customs controls.

• Contains official import/export data from border authorities, including declared valuations, shipping routes, tariffs, and inspection outcomes.
• Enables cross-referencing of declared diamond shipments against actual customs filings, helping to identify forged documents, undisclosed re-exports, and potential misdeclarations.

• Documents the movement of goods, shipping routes, and related customs declarations.

Although diplomatic pouches generally bypass standard inspection, these records can at least confirm declared shipments, frequencies, or any customs interactions that may hint at possible misuse of diplomatic channels for illicit asset transfers.

• Includes official import/export filings, declarations, shipping routes, and commodity details.
• Comparing these records with submitted shipping or customs documents helps identify tampering or misrepresentation in trade documents used to move illicit funds across borders.

Provides official import and export declarations, cargo manifests, and border-control logs, enabling verification that shipments actually took place and matched the declared routes or commodities in documentary collection transactions. This helps uncover nonexistent or misrepresented shipments often used to hide illicit financial flows.

• Provides data on import/export activities, shipping routes, and declared goods crossing national borders.
• Assists in identifying suspicious shipments or misdeclared cargo potentially concealing narcotics, precursor chemicals, or drug profits.
• Aids in detecting trade discrepancies that may indicate smuggling or trade-based money laundering linked to drug operations.

• Contains import and export records, shipping routes, and associated documentation.
• Allows verification of declared goods and detection of discrepancies in shipments linked to illegal wildlife, timber, or other contraband.
• Identifies unusual or repeated transit routes indicative of laundering through cross-border movements.

• Contain official shipment data, including quantities, weights, declared values, and shipping routes.
• Enable verification of invoice values against actual goods shipped.
• Flag exports processed through higher-risk jurisdictions where oversight may be lax.

• Data Provided: Official declarations, shipping routes, and import/export details that confirm actual goods crossing borders.
• AML Relevance: Enables verification of claimed cross-border shipments against official customs data, helping detect phantom or forged shipments in fictitious trade deals.

• Contains authoritative information on goods movements, declared values, and shipping routes.
• By comparing declared shipment details in financial instruments with the actual customs records, investigators can detect discrepancies or forged references.

• Provides official data on the cross-border movement of goods, including shipping routes, tariffs, and declared items.
• Facilitates the confirmation of actual import/export activities in free trade zones versus declared trade documentation.
• Helps detect repeated re-exports or suspicious cargo volumes that may indicate layering within FTZs.

Logs declared imports and exports, including valuable goods shipped across borders into or out of freeports. Detects discrepancies between declared items and actual shipments, indicating possible smuggling or unreported asset movements.

Official records maintained by customs and border authorities track the movement of goods across ports or borders.

• By comparing declared shipments in trade documentation with actual customs entries or exits, investigators can reveal discrepancies that signal ghost shipments.
• Identifies cargo that was never physically processed, indicating artificially constructed shipment paperwork.

• Documents declared goods, shipping routes, valuations, and relevant import/export filings.
• Facilitates the detection of misappropriated gold purity or classification, revealing discrepancies between declared and actual gold content when crossing borders.

Captures declared currency amounts, traveler details, and cross-border entry/exit logs. Cross-referencing these data with subsequent deposits or withdrawals of high-denomination notes can reveal undeclared currency movements tied to illicit transport.

• Documents the cross-border movement of goods, including declared values, shipping routes, and associated documentation.
• Supports detection of suspicious undervalued or misdeclared shipments of precious metals or luxury items indicative of high-value goods laundering.

• Tracks the movement of goods across international borders, including detailed import/export data, shipping routes, and declared commodity values.

This data helps uncover situations where valuable commodities, particularly gold, are physically moved without corresponding formal fund transfers, an essential feature of Hot Transfers.

Includes official import/export logs, shipping routes, declared cargo details, and border inspection reports. By cross-referencing these records against declared timber volumes, species, and export permits, investigators can identify undeclared or mismatched shipments, revealing potential illegal logging activity and associated laundering of proceeds.

Details cross-border shipments, declared commodities, shipping routes, and customs filings. This data enables the detection of misdeclared or undocumented mineral exports, which are common in illegal mining schemes.

Comprehensive records of goods crossing borders include declared values, item descriptions, shipping routes, and the use of free ports or trade zones. This data helps detect suspicious or inconsistent customs declarations for cultural artifacts, indicating potential smuggling or illicit trafficking.

• Provides official records from customs and border authorities detailing declared values, quantities, and routes of shipped goods.
• Cross-referencing these with invoice documentation helps uncover false or overstated shipments characteristic of invoice manipulation.

• Documents import and export declarations, shipping routes, and required certifications for jewelry.
• Comparing declared values to actual market prices and verifying missing or incomplete certificates (e.g., Kimberley Process) helps detect suspicious under- or over-valuation.

• Records cross-border cash or monetary instrument declarations and seizures at entry or exit points.
• Enables detection of large or frequent cross-border payments by junket operators and VIP clients that are not consistent with legitimate gambling volumes.

• Provides official data on individual cross-border movements, cargo details, and flagged irregular entries.
• Helps match financial transaction anomalies with potential physical smuggling activities, particularly where repeated undocumented crossings are involved.

Data from customs authorities detail official imports, exports, and cross-border movements of goods. Comparing these records with claimed import/export expenses can uncover inconsistencies indicative of misrepresented transactions.

Provides official records of individuals' cross-border movements, enabling the detection of multiple or inconsistent travel documents linked to the same person. Such data helps confirm whether a customer is using varying passports or nationalities for travel, which can signal higher money laundering risk in multi-citizenship identity schemes.

• Official records of cross-border movements, declarations, and inspections, including disclosure or seizure of bearer negotiable instruments.
• Assists in detecting undeclared international transportation of negotiable instruments to circumvent currency reporting requirements.

Provides documentation of cross-border cash declarations and any seized amounts. Correlating these records with subsequent fiat or crypto movements helps identify instances where large cash sums enter a jurisdiction and are quickly converted into or out of cryptocurrency, indicating potential NEP patterns.

• Centralizes data on goods movement across borders, including shipping routes, import/export details, and tariffs.
• Enables detection of complex or unusual shipping patterns, such as vessel flag changes or multi-jurisdiction routes used to disguise illicit oil trades.
• Allows comparison of declared cargo specifics with recorded border entries, uncovering discrepancies in oil shipments.

Provides official data on the cross-border movement of goods, including customs declarations, tariff classifications, and inspection results. By matching these records with financed export claims, investigators can confirm whether shipments actually occurred, exposing inconsistencies in declared quantities or values.

• Documents cross-border movements of goods and individuals, including declared items, shipping routes, and tariffs.
• Assists in identifying undeclared or misrepresented precious commodities, a common tactic in smuggling schemes.

Encompasses official data on goods moving across borders, capturing shipping routes, multiple transshipment points, declared values, and inspection results. This contributes to:

• Uncovering suspicious or circuitous shipping paths for precious metals or gemstones with no clear commercial justification.
• Detecting potential misuse of relaxed oversight in certain jurisdictions.
• Enhancing investigations into cross-border movements tied to trade-based money laundering schemes.

These records track the movement of goods and related documentation across national borders, including shipments of precursor chemicals. By comparing declared items against typical business operations, financial institutions can detect suspicious imports or exports consistent with illicit drug manufacturing activities.

Includes official import/export data, shipping routes, and cargo declarations verified by customs authorities. By comparing declared goods and volumes with L/C documentation, investigators can uncover inconsistencies or inflated invoices indicative of red/green clause abuse.

• Documents import-export activities, including declared goods, routes, and involved parties.
• Enables identification of shipments that deviate from legitimate channels or are destined for sanctioned jurisdictions under false pretenses.

• Provides official records on the movement of goods and related permits required at border checkpoints.
• Helps detect fabricated transport or harvesting permits by comparing declared shipments with actual customs data.
• Identifies discrepancies between claimed and actual commodity flows used to mask illicit activities.

Comprehensive records detail cross-border shipment movements, including declared cargo, tariffs, and inspection details. By tracking actual shipping routes, comparing declared contents with customs filings, and reviewing inspection outcomes, investigators can identify suspicious diversion patterns, hidden intermediaries, or inconsistent documentation indicative of illicit trade activity.

• Documents actual goods movement and clearance, including declared values, quantities, shipping routes, and inspection outcomes.
• Allows investigators to compare official customs data with trade invoices, exposing potential misinvoicing when goods or valuations do not match reported information.

Contains official records of cross-border shipments, including declared goods, shipping routes, volumes, and tariffs. Investigators can cross-check these data points to detect inconsistencies or non-existent cargo (phantom shipments), identify potential over- or under-invoicing based on declared versus actual imports, and confirm or refute suspicious last-minute route changes indicative of illicit trade-based manipulation.

• Provides official logs of goods, shipments, and individuals crossing borders.
• Contains shipping routes, commodity details, and declarations that may reveal discrepancies or hidden wildlife products.
• Supports detection of fraudulent or incomplete documentation used to conceal illicit wildlife cargo.