Company & Beneficial Ownership Registries

Consolidated records providing official or aggregated details of organizations, such as registration and incorporation data, licensing, shareholders, directors, ownership structures, partnership or trust information, and membership changes.

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DS0049
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Company & Beneficial Ownership Registries
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Version
1.0
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Category
Corporate & Ownership Data
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Created
2025-04-02
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Modified
2025-04-02
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Related Techniques

Contains structured information on corporate affiliations, ownership structures, and directors. Investigators can trace intercompany transactions or accrual entries across affiliated entities to detect large or irregular accruals lacking a credible commercial rationale.

  • Contains official incorporation and ownership details, allowing for the verification of newly formed or suspicious entities receiving funds.
  • Identifies shell or unverified companies frequently used to launder or redirect proceeds from advance fee scams, assisting in tracking ultimate beneficiaries.
  • Provides official registration data, shareholders, directors, and beneficial owners for agent entities.
  • Identifies undisclosed or overlapping ownership among multiple agents and sub-agents.
  • Cross-referencing these details with transactional data can highlight complex or hidden ownership structures facilitating laundering.

Provides official records of corporate ownership structures, including directors and ultimate beneficial owners. Cross-referencing these details helps identify multiple subsidy applications filed under different entities controlled by the same individual or group.

  • Provides official records on corporate registrations, shareholder structures, and directorships across multiple jurisdictions.
  • Reveals convoluted or multi-layered ownership setups behind agribusinesses, charitable foundations, or NGOs.
  • Helps trace ultimate beneficial owners in high-risk or secrecy jurisdictions where agricultural ventures may conceal illicit funds.

Includes official corporate registration data, directors, shareholders, and beneficial owners. This data helps identify shell companies and undisclosed ownership structures used in all-cash property deals to conceal the true parties and sources of funds.

  • Consolidated records show corporate registration data, shareholders, directors, and ownership structures.
  • Reveals shell companies, newly incorporated entities, or undisclosed beneficial owners involved in arbitration, indicating potential collusive manipulation.
T0143.002
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  • Provides official or aggregated details of corporate entities, including ownership structures, directors, shareholders, and registered addresses.

  • Enables investigators to uncover shell or front companies used to mask arms trafficking activities and trace beneficial owners who may be involved in illicit arms trade.

  • Contains official registration data, including shareholders, directors, and ultimate beneficial owners.
  • Enables investigators to unveil hidden ownership structures behind shell companies facilitating art transactions, revealing potential links to money laundering activities via manipulated art sales.
  • Provides official corporate registration data, including shareholders, directors, and beneficial ownership details.
  • Facilitates cross-referencing to identify shell or front companies used to hide real owners.
  • Supports detection of multiple layers of corporate entities and nominee arrangements concealing ultimate beneficiaries.
  • Provides official records of corporate structures, including shareholders, directors, and historical ownership changes.
  • Enables detection of shell companies, overlapping beneficial owners, and hidden control structures used to obscure the true owners of cross-border asset management arrangements.
  • Provides corporate registration details, shareholder information, and beneficial ownership structures.
  • Identifies overlapping beneficial owners repeatedly involved in auction transactions, potentially indicating collusive flipping or layering.
  • Helps trace the ultimate parties controlling shell entities used to mask true ownership in auction schemes.
  • Provides official registration data, including directors, shareholders, and historical ownership changes.
  • Detects opaque or missing beneficial ownership details for entities issuing or holding bearer shares.
  • Helps expose complex corporate structures that rely on bearer instruments to conceal the real beneficiaries.

Aggregates official corporate registration details, including shareholder and directorship data, beneficial ownership structures, and historical changes. This data enables the detection of repeated, suspicious changes in ownership, cross-verification with other records, and identification of concealed or high-risk entities.

  • Provides official incorporation details, shareholder data, and beneficial ownership structures.
  • Facilitates cross-referencing of ownership information among bidding entities to uncover overlapping controllers, indicating potential collusion or use of shell intermediaries in rigged tenders.

Reveals corporate structures, shareholders, and ultimate beneficial owners, enabling the detection of shell or front companies used to obscure financial flows or arrange fictitious trade deals.

  • Data Provided: Official incorporation records, shareholding details, director information, and beneficial ownership data.

  • Direct AML Relevance: Helps verify declared ownership structures used in import/export transactions, uncovering hidden controllers or shell entities that facilitate Black Market Peso Exchange.

T0061.004
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Centralized records of business entities and their owners capture formations, shareholder details, and historical changes in ownership structures. This data helps expose multi-layered or shifting corporate entities used to hide ultimate beneficial owners in bond transactions.

  • Provides official or aggregated details on business registration, shareholders, directors, and beneficial owners.
  • Supports investigations into the ownership history of entities using bonded warehouses, helping to identify shell or front companies with minimal operational footprints and uncover hidden beneficial owners.
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  • Provides official records of business registrations, ownership structures, directors, and shareholders.
  • Allows detection of frequent or unexplained management changes that may conceal bribery-related entities.

Provides official company registration details, shareholding structures, directors, beneficial owner identities, and historical ownership changes. This information allows for the detection of opaque or sudden ownership shifts, offshore entities, and complex corporate layers used to conceal illicit funds.

  • Provides official records of corporate registration, shareholders, directors, and ownership structures.
  • Directly aids in identifying shell companies, opaque corporate vehicles, or trusts used to conceal the true source of investment funds for CBI/RBI programs.
  • Supports AML detection by verifying whether complex entities are being used to mask beneficial owners or bypass scrutiny in the citizenship or residency application process.
  • Document legal incorporation details, layered ownership structures, and registration histories of the captive or associated reinsurance intermediaries.
  • Reveal hidden shell or offshore entities used to obscure illicit fund flows.
  • Provides official information on corporate structures, shareholders, directors, and ownership hierarchies.
  • Helps uncover shell entities or special-purpose vehicles used to mask beneficial ownership in complex carbon credit arrangements and cross-border layering schemes.
T0144.007
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  • Contains official or aggregated corporate registration data (e.g., beneficial owners, directors, shareholding structures).
  • Helps identify overlapping beneficial owners and directorship changes across multiple entities, indicating potential shell company usage.
  • Supports correlation of rapid or suspicious corporate changes with VAT obligations to detect carousel fraud networks.
  • Contains official incorporation, ownership, and directorship details for companies.
  • Helps identify shell or minimally registered entities used to channel cash wage payments off the books, obscuring the ultimate benefactors and the true number of employees or subcontractors involved.
T0091
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Registry data reveals the legal owners, shareholders, and directors of companies, including:

  • Structures showing ownership or control overlap between merchants and disputing customers.
  • Historical changes in beneficial ownership.

This data source helps expose collusion in fraudulent chargebacks where the merchant and the customer share hidden business interests.

  • Details official registration records, directors, shareholders, and beneficial owners of organizations, including non-profits.
  • Enables investigators to detect frequent or suspicious board changes, hidden ownership structures, or infiltration by criminal associates.
  • Helps confirm or refute claims regarding a charity’s legitimate governance and oversight.
  • Details corporate registration data, shareholding structures, and beneficial owners.
  • Detects common ownership or overlapping interests among multiple tobacco-related businesses that may facilitate coordinated smuggling networks.
  • Highlights undisclosed beneficial owners potentially involved in transnational smuggling ventures.
  • Provides official registration details, shareholder information, and corporate histories of entities.
  • Confirms whether companies have legitimate business operations or are merely shells used in layered L/C schemes.
  • Reveals anomalies in corporate registration and activities, exposing fraudulent participation in letters of credit issuance.
  • Provides official or aggregated details of organizations, including registration, shareholders, directors, and beneficial owners.
  • Facilitates the identification of shell companies and hidden relationships among entities involved in circular transactions.
  • Provides official details on company registration, beneficial owners, and corporate affiliations.
  • Identifies shell companies or multiple dealers without verified track records that are used to hide beneficial ownership in collectible transactions.
  • Traces links between dealers or auction platforms and potential illicit entities attempting to obscure the origins of funds.

Lists business registration details, directors, and shareholders to unmask front or shell companies used to obscure the real parties behind smuggling operations. Investigators can identify newly formed or opaque entities facilitating illicit trade transactions.

  • Provides official data on registered companies, including incorporation details, shareholders, and ownership structures.
  • Unmasks shell or front companies used by commodity traffickers to conceal true ownership.
  • Enables investigators to trace beneficial owners, identifying hidden links to illicit trade networks.

Consolidated records of corporate registration, shareholder structures, and beneficial owners:

  • Reveals overlapping ownership or hidden ties across multiple entities involved in a single commodity transaction.
  • Supports detection of shell companies and multi-layered intermediaries used to conceal ultimate beneficiaries.
  • Provides official information on company registration, shareholders, directors, and ownership structures.
  • Enables confirmation of an MSB’s declared ownership against actual beneficial owners, helping expose shell companies or undisclosed controllers.
  • Aids in verifying whether the MSB is covertly owned or directed by criminals or high-risk parties seeking to evade detection.
  • Verify corporate registration details and operating history to detect shell companies or recently formed companies lacking real construction experience.
  • Track sudden or frequent changes in beneficial ownership that obscure the true controllers.
  • Check subcontractors or affiliated entities receiving large payments to uncover undisclosed relationships or dormant businesses.
  • Validate newly formed government contract awardees to ensure they have genuine capacity and are not front entities.
  • Provides official registration data, corporate ownership structures, and beneficial owner details.
  • Helps investigators uncover shell or offshore entities behind consulting operations and trace ultimate owners linked to illicit activities.

These registries provide official records of registration, directorship, controlling interests, and ownership structures for cooperatives, mutual institutions, and similar entities. They enable investigators to:

  • Identify the true owners or controlling members behind the cooperative or mutual institution.
  • Uncover undisclosed beneficial owners or hidden relationships, exposing infiltration by high-risk individuals.
  • Compare official governance or membership data with actual account and deposit patterns, highlighting red flags in ownership or control.
  • Consolidates official information on company registration, directors, shareholders, and beneficial owners.
  • Identifies common addresses or management across multiple entities, spotting potential layering techniques.
  • Tracks repeated entity formation or dissolution events, highlighting manipulative corporate practices.
  • Uncovers cross-border registrations used to obscure illicit fund flows.

Contains official records of corporate registrations, shareholders, and beneficial owners. This data helps expose shell or front companies orchestrated through respondent banks, enabling the correspondent bank to identify dormant or suspicious entities lacking legitimate business activities.

T0051
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Provides official data on company structures, directorships, shareholdings, and ownership relationships. In corruption cases, these registries help trace shell entities or hidden beneficial owners used to launder embezzled funds.

Contains official corporate registration, shareholding structures, and beneficial ownership data. This data helps investigators:

  • Uncover hidden or multi-jurisdictional ownership used to obscure beneficial owners of countertrade transactions.
  • Verify corporate relationships and confirm the ultimate parties behind the exchanged goods or services.

Provides details on company registrations, beneficial ownership structures, and historical ownership changes.

How it supports AML detection:

  • Uncovers complex or opaque entities repeatedly involved in suspicious lawsuits or legal settlements.
  • Identifies hidden beneficiaries behind legal actions, revealing potential shell companies used to launder illicit funds through manipulated court processes.
  • Contains official registration details and ownership structures across multiple jurisdictions.
  • Verifies whether local or foreign intermediaries hold ownership stakes, directorship positions, or other controlling roles.
  • Facilitates detection of shell or front companies used to obscure beneficial owners and cross-border fund flows.

Official or aggregated details of organizations, including registration data, shareholders, directors, and ownership structures. This data helps investigators detect repeated cross-border transfers among entities sharing the same beneficial owner, indicating potential layering or shell company usage.

  • Provides entity incorporation data, shareholder details, directorship information, and changes in beneficial ownership.
  • Enables identification of shell intermediaries, front companies, and cross-jurisdictional ownership networks used to obscure the origins of diamond smuggling proceeds.
  • Contains formal records of entity ownership structures, shareholders, and ultimate beneficial owners.
  • Helps reveal overlapping ownership or control of multiple diamond-trading entities lacking legitimate commercial rationale.
  • Provides incorporation details, shareholders, directors, and recorded changes in ownership or authorized signatories.
  • This helps trace ownership shifts in state-owned entities or affiliated corporate structures that may indicate layering or corruption proceeds passing under diplomatic cover.

Provides official registration details, records of shareholders, beneficial owners, and historical ownership changes. Cross-referencing these registries with internal account data helps detect sudden or repeated share ownership shifts engineered to claim multiple dividend refunds in a short timeframe.

  • Contains official data on company registration, shareholders, directors, and beneficial owners.
  • By verifying corporate documentation against these registries, institutions can uncover forged or misrepresented corporate structures used to mask the true owners of illicit transactions.
  • Contains official records of corporate registrations, shareholders, and beneficial owners.
  • Aids in identifying shell or dormant entities used to conceal principal parties behind manipulated documentary collections.
  • Provides transparency into ownership structures that may otherwise obscure illicit trade flows.
T0142
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  • Contains registration data, ownership structures, directors, and shareholders of companies.
  • Aids in uncovering shell or front entities used to launder drug proceeds through complex corporate structures.
  • Allows investigators to identify and verify the individuals ultimately controlling entities suspected of financing or facilitating the drug trade.

Provides official and aggregated corporate registration details, including beneficial ownership data, directors, and historical ownership changes. This facilitates the verification of e-commerce businesses, detection of shell or front companies, and exposure of hidden ownership structures used to launder funds through fraudulent online storefronts.

T0086.001
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  • Reveals registered ownership, directors, and shareholders of entities involved in premium payments.
  • Helps uncover complex or intentionally opaque corporate structures used to mask beneficial owners or funnel illicit funds through insurance policies.
  • Provides official registration details, beneficial ownership structures, directors, and historical changes.
  • Allows identification of overlapping beneficial owners across multiple relief claims, shell companies, or newly formed entities lacking legitimate operations.
  • Supports verification of ownership details to detect front or nominee arrangements used to secure fraudulent relief payouts.
  • Contains official registration data of nonprofit educational institutions, including leadership, ownership structures, and historical changes.
  • Aids in identifying frequent or unexplained ownership or management changes that may indicate potential shell or front organizations used for laundering.
  • Provides legal entity and ownership details, identifying hidden or opaque beneficial owners behind entertainment companies.
  • Helps investigators trace multi-jurisdictional holdings and unmask ultimate owners of front enterprises used to launder funds.
  • Essential for ensuring beneficial ownership transparency in the entertainment industry.
  • Provides official ownership and registration details for companies.
  • Identifies actual and hidden beneficial owners behind front or shell companies.
  • Enables the detection of complex ownership structures used to obscure the proceeds of illegal logging or wildlife trafficking.

Supplies official registration details and ownership structures of entities. Cross-checking expense claim vendors against these registries helps identify shell companies or completely fictitious vendors involved in fraudulent reimbursements.

  • Maintains official records of corporate registration, beneficial owners, and controlling individuals.
  • Uncovers shell or front entities used to channel inflated export proceeds and disguise true ownership.
  • Enables financial institutions to identify hidden relationships that facilitate overvaluation schemes.
T0049
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Centralized records of company formations, directorships, and ownership structures reveal potential shell or front companies used to launder extortion proceeds by:

  • Uncovering opaque layers of beneficial ownership.
  • Verifying registered business activity claims against actual financial inflows associated with coerced payments.
  • Contain official registration and ownership information about companies.
  • Help verify if an advertised employer is duly registered or if corporate data is contradictory.
  • Identify instances where fake or non-existent companies are used in job recruitment scams.
  • Maintains official records of business registration, beneficial ownership, directors, and shareholders.
  • Facilitates cross-referencing vendor claims to identify inconsistencies or fraudulent registrations typical of fake or shell companies used as vendors.
  • Aggregates official company registration data, shareholder information, and ultimate beneficial ownership (UBO) details.
  • Enables cross-checking of overlapping beneficial owners across entities that claim to be independent call centers, exposing hidden ownership structures.

Provides official registration details, beneficial owner identities, and records of shareholding or directorship changes. This information uncovers overlapping control or sudden shifts in ownership structures, which are hallmarks of collusion and shell firm misuse in the context of fictitious consultancies.

Provides official data on corporate registration, ownership structures, and beneficial owners, enabling verification of vendor legitimacy. It is essential to confirm if purported creditors are legitimate businesses or share suspicious overlaps with company insiders.

  • Data Provided: Official records of business incorporation, ownership structures, and registration details.
  • AML Relevance: Verifies the legitimacy of newly formed or dormant businesses filing fraudulent wage or unemployment claims.
  • Provides official registration details, directorships, shareholding compositions, and beneficial ownership structures.
  • Exposes convoluted ownership layering or nominee arrangements used by foreign investors to disguise ultimate beneficial controllers in fictitious investment schemes.
  • Offers official corporate registration details, directors, and historical ownership information.
  • Reveals the true controllers behind jewelry businesses, aiding in uncovering front companies.
  • Helps detect frequent corporate ownership changes or shell entities lacking genuine operations.

Official or aggregated records of corporate entities detail shareholders, directors, beneficial owners, and historical ownership changes. This data enables investigators to identify newly formed or dormant shell companies, detect abrupt or unverified changes in control, and correlate ownership structures across multiple jurisdictions, revealing hidden connections that facilitate fictitious M&A transactions.

  • Contains information on corporate registration, shareholders, and beneficial owners.
  • Enables identification of overlapping ownership among so-called mini umbrella companies used to divide payroll artificially and evade certain thresholds.
  • Contains official registration and ownership details of businesses, including shareholders, directors, and historical ownership changes.
  • Reveals shell or cover companies lacking genuine corporate substance, enabling detection of entities potentially used to orchestrate fictitious sales.
  • Data Provided: Registration details, shareholder structures, and beneficial ownership data for entities.
  • AML Relevance: Reveals shell entities or complex ownership arrangements used to conceal criminal proceeds within fabricated or inflated trade transactions.
T0058.001
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Offers official details on company registration, beneficial owners, and changes in shareholding or directorship. This data helps trace front companies or shell entities used to conceal forced labor proceeds and identify ultimate beneficiaries profiting from exploitation.

  • Consolidates official records of an entity’s registration, ownership structure, shareholders, and directors across multiple jurisdictions.
  • Facilitates the identification of shell or front companies used to obscure ultimate beneficial owners in foreign exchange transactions.
  • Supports due diligence efforts by revealing frequent changes in ownership or hidden controlling interests, which may indicate trade-based FX manipulation.
  • Provide official records of entity registration, ownership structures, and directorships.
  • Uncover shell entities or overlapping beneficiaries orchestrating the circulation of forged financial instruments to obscure the flow of funds.
T0144
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  • Provides official ownership and registration details for companies, including shareholding structures and directorships.
  • Assists in uncovering shell entities or undisclosed ownership used to channel fraudulent proceeds.
  • Enables cross-verification of declared business activities against actual corporate records, identifying potential misrepresentations in fraudulent setups.
  • Contains official information on corporate registration, shareholders, directorships, and ownership structures.
  • Enables verification of overlapping or rapidly changing beneficial owners across multiple FTZ entities.
  • Helps uncover hidden relationships indicative of shell structures or illicit layering.

Provides official or aggregated data on business entities, including ownership structures, directorships, and registered shareholders. Supports detecting overlapping beneficial owners among multiple shell companies using the same private storage facility.

  • Provides official details on entity registration, beneficial owners, directors, and historical ownership changes.
  • Enables detection of repeated or unexplained changes in management consistent with front companies concealing ultimate beneficial owners.
T0069.002
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Records detailing official incorporation data, shareholders, directors, and beneficial ownership for registered entities.

  • Verifies legitimate operations, physical premises, and real beneficial owners, exposing shell or nonexistent companies used to mask ghost shipping transactions.
  • Identifies inconsistencies between declared shipping entities and their actual corporate information.
T0055.001
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  • Consolidates official registration details, shareholders, directors, and beneficial owners, including historical changes.
  • Enables identification of frequent or suspicious changes in ownership of gold dealers or intermediaries, suggesting potential concealment or layering.

Provides official incorporation data, ownership structures, and historical changes in directorships or shareholding. This information reveals shell companies or newly formed entities with suspicious timing, facilitating the detection of fraudulent relief applications linked to the same ultimate beneficial owner.

  • Provides registration and incorporation details, shareholder information, and beneficial ownership data for entities involved in real estate transactions.

  • Enables investigators to trace underlying control persons, detect shell entities, and uncover layered ownership structures used to obscure links to criminal parties.

  • Details formal corporate registrations, ownership structures, shareholders, and directors.
  • Assists in identifying overlapping or hidden beneficial owners who might be using multiple entities to buy and sell high-value goods, obscuring true ownership in money laundering schemes.
T0013.002
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  • Provides corporate registration details, ownership structures, directorships, and shareholdings.

By revealing interlinked entities that may be engaging in reciprocal trades or netting arrangements, this data source helps identify complex structures facilitating hot transfers through hidden ties between counterparties.

Provides official registration details, ownership structures, and historical changes for businesses. By reviewing these records, investigators can:

  • Identify undisclosed beneficial owners or shell companies concealing proceeds from forced labor or sexual exploitation.
  • Verify the legitimacy of corporate entities presented as recruitment agencies, bars, or massage parlors commonly used to funnel illicit funds.
  • Detect connections between entities and higher-risk individuals or suspicious business networks, aiding in uncovering human trafficking operations.
T0145.001
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Centralized records of corporate registrations, shareholders, and beneficial owners help uncover hidden or opaque ownership structures. This can reveal shell entities potentially used to launder illegal logging proceeds through layered corporate arrangements.

Provides official registration details, beneficial ownership structures, and licensing information for entities. This data helps identify unlicensed or suspicious corporate vehicles used to conceal illegal mining operations and launder proceeds.

Provides information on ownership structures and beneficial owners of legal entities. This data helps uncover shell companies or foreign-registered entities used to obscure the true owners behind antiquities transactions, supporting the identification of undisclosed parties or criminal networks.

  • Provides official and aggregated data on corporate registration, ownership structures, and addresses.
  • Enables verification of sub-agents’ legal status, identification of overlapping beneficial owners or contact details, and detection of unlisted premises potentially used for illicit activities.

Provides official registration data on corporations, including beneficial ownership details, shareholding structures, and directorship changes. This data helps detect infiltration by revealing sudden or suspicious ownership changes within a bank, hidden alliances with shell entities, and layered ownership structures indicative of organized crime control.

  • Contains official registration details, shareholding, and beneficial ownership information.
  • Reveals overlapping ownership structures between buyers and sellers, a key enabler for collusive pricing schemes.

By exposing relationships among transacting parties, investigators can uncover scenarios where inflated invoices serve to move funds between related entities.

  • Provides official or aggregated entity registration details, including shareholders, directors, and beneficiaries.
  • Reveals complex ownership structures, shell companies, or trusts used to channel and obscure insider trading proceeds.
  • Provide official incorporation, ownership, and registration details for companies or trusts.
  • Reveal hidden or layered ownership structures behind policyholders or beneficiaries.
  • Detect complex corporate arrangements used to obscure beneficial ownership in annuity contracts.

Access to these registries helps trace ultimate beneficial owners and mitigate the risk of shell or front entities abusing annuity products for laundering.

  • Provides corporate registration details, ownership structures, and directorship information.
  • Assists in identifying shell companies, opaque ownership, or newly added corporate beneficiaries lacking legitimate business activity, thereby revealing potential obfuscation of ultimate beneficiaries.
  • Provides official registration and beneficial ownership details of insurers, reinsurance entities, or associated shell companies.
  • Uncovers opaque or layered ownership structures used to conceal the ultimate owners behind manipulated insurance arrangements.
  • Provides official registration and ownership details for companies, revealing hidden corporate structures that may be exploited through nominee arrangements.
  • Assists in identifying shell companies or complex ownership chains frequently used by intermediaries to obscure ultimate beneficial owners.
  • Contains official registration data, shareholders, directors, and incorporation details of firms, including offshore entities.
  • Enables tracing of multi-layered corporate structures and identifying true beneficial owners behind shell companies holding foreign real estate.
  • Supports detection of suspicious or undisclosed cross-border ownership arrangements linked to illicit property investments.
  • Official registration records, shareholder information, and beneficial owner disclosures.
  • Facilitates detection of shell companies, nominee directors, and frequent changes in ownership structures, which are central tactics in concealing the ultimate beneficiaries of illicit capital.
T0144.017
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Provides verified details of registered entities, including incorporation data, directors, shareholders, and beneficial owners. This data helps uncover shared ownership or repeated entity registrations used to run parallel, identical investment scams without transparent disclosure.

Contains official corporate registration details, ownership structures, and beneficial ownership information. This helps identify shell entities, layered ownership, or offshore corporations used to obscure illicit funding sources in manipulated investment schemes.

  • Maintains official or aggregated details on corporate entities, including shareholders, directors, incorporation data, and ownership structures.
  • Assists in detecting instances where multiple CBI/RBI applicants share the same intermediary or beneficial owner, indicating potential collusion or hidden relationships.

Includes official corporate registration details, directors, shareholders, beneficial owners, and historical ownership changes. This information helps identify shell or front companies used to funnel illicit proceeds into investment funds and detect hidden relationships across layered corporate structures.

  • Provides official details on legal entities: registration data, shareholders, directors, and beneficial owners.
  • Reveals shell or newly formed companies with opaque ownership potentially used for issuing manipulated invoices.
  • Presents formal ownership data for legal entities and beneficial owners.
  • Exposes relationships among individuals or entities repeatedly transferring the same jewelry piece, helping uncover collusive activity aimed at manipulating valuations.
  • Provides official corporate registration details, ownership structures, and historical changes.
  • Enables identification of underlying controlling parties behind junket operators or affiliates.
  • Facilitates detection of shell or front companies used to obscure ownership in junket-based casino transfers.

Holds official information on corporate registration, shareholding, and direct or indirect ownership details. Analysts can identify expedited or clustered acquisitions by the same beneficial owner, pinpoint patterns of questionable rapid expansion, and clarify complex ownership structures used to obscure illicit proceeds.

Provides authoritative records of corporate ownership structures and changes, including details on shareholders, directors, and any registered transitions of control. This data enables the identification of frequent or unexplained transfers of beneficial ownership in betting shops, revealing efforts to mask criminal control or launder illicit proceeds.

  • Provides official corporate registration data, including beneficial owners, directors, and historical registration changes.
  • Exposes offshore shell entities or affiliated companies used to disguise loan-back or back-to-back schemes.
  • Enables linkage of borrower and lender under the same beneficial owner, a frequent tactic in disguised loan transactions.
T0107.001
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Hold incorporation data, shareholder information, and beneficial ownership details for registered entities. In lottery laundering scenarios:

  • Verify corporate entities redeeming large prizes when they have no logical link to gaming.
  • Identify hidden ownership structures or nominee relationships concealing the true beneficiaries of lottery winnings.
  • Correlate corporate activity with suspicious prize-claim patterns.
  • Provide official data on corporate structures, directors, shareholders, and ownership changes.
  • Reveal shell companies or obscure ownership arrangements potentially used to shift liabilities or create fictitious revenues and losses through manipulated accounting entries.
  • Provides official corporate registration data, shareholder details, and beneficial ownership structures.
  • Helps uncover shell entities or multiple accounts under common control used to conduct circular or manipulative trades.
  • Enables investigators to trace ultimate beneficiaries behind complex corporate setups involved in market manipulation schemes.
  • Consolidates official company registration details, shareholder data, and historical ownership changes.
  • Uncovers front companies or shell entities used to layer or obscure migrant smuggling proceeds.

Provides official information on corporate structures, including shareholders, directors, and ultimate beneficial owners. Access to these registries uncovers shell or front companies used in mirror trading, revealing the true parties behind complex layering schemes.

  • Disclose the true owners and controlling parties behind corporate entities and trusts.
  • Expose shell or front companies used by public officials to channel or hide misappropriated funds under opaque ownership structures.
  • Provides official registration information, directors, shareholders, and beneficial ownership structures across jurisdictions.
  • Uncovers layered corporate vehicles or nominee arrangements used to obscure true owners in multi-jurisdiction setups.
  • Cross-referencing registry details with trust or KYC records can highlight hidden relationships and suspicious ownership changes.

Offers official details on corporate registration, ownership structures, and key principals. This data is vital for verifying whether entities issuing repeated invoices have legitimate commercial operations or are shell companies used to create multiple billing layers.

  • Contains official company registration details, ownership structures, and shareholder information.
  • Helps detect undisclosed ownership changes or shell entities used to conceal real controllers.
  • Cross-checks formal ownership records against potential off-the-record transfers or fictitious filings.
  • Provides official or aggregated details of an entity's registration, ownership structures, shareholders, directors, and beneficial owners.
  • Confirms overlapping ownership or control among entities or accounts involved in suspected mirror or offsetting trades.
  • Exposes collusion or layering efforts by tying seemingly separate entities back to the same ultimate controlling parties.
  • Confirm the official registration details and physical presence of offshore gambling entities.
  • Reveal beneficial owners, shareholders, and dormant front companies that obscure true ownership.

These records enable AML professionals to uncover hidden relationships and shell structures used to mask illicit gambling operations.

Provides official registration details, ownership structures, and changes in corporate control. This data helps expose multi-jurisdictional corporate layers or shell companies used to obscure the ownership of offshore insurance providers and captive insurers.

Provides official registration details, shareholder structures, and beneficial ownership information of companies. This data:

  • Identifies shell or dormant entities used to layer illicit funds offshore.
  • Verifies the business legitimacy and operational status of foreign-registered entities.
  • Uncovers complex or rapidly changing ownership arrangements indicating potential offshore layering.
  • Provides official incorporation details, shareholder structures, and historical ownership changes for legal entities.
  • Verifies whether multiple companies are registered in high-risk or secrecy jurisdictions under the same beneficial owner.
  • Uncovers cross-jurisdictional layering and hidden ownership links facilitating offshore exploitation.
  • Contains corporate registration and ownership details (e.g., shareholders, directors, beneficial owners).
  • Helps uncover shell, front, or newly formed entities used to obscure illicit oil and fuel transaction activities.
  • Enables identification of hidden or opaque structures that facilitate fraudulent invoicing and misrepresented ownership in oil deals.

Provides official company registration and shareholder records to identify the true owners and controllers of OTC brokerages. This data helps confirm whether such entities are legally registered or if they exploit opaque structures to evade AML controls.

  • Provides incorporation data, shareholder and director details, and beneficial ownership structures.
  • Allows identification of shell or front companies used to process payroll expenses without proper tax withholdings.
  • Helps trace interrelated entities lacking legitimate business operations that may be set up to conceal true payroll liabilities.

Provides official registration details and beneficial ownership information for entities, including self-managed pension funds. This data helps identify undisclosed or suspicious ownership structures and verifies the true parties behind private pension schemes.

  • Holds official registration and ownership data for companies.
  • Verifies the authenticity of purported employers involved in phishing-based recruitment.
  • Uncovers fictitious or unregistered entities used to recruit unwitting money mules.
  • Provide details about the true owners, shareholders, directors, and registration status of companies or intermediaries.
  • Assist in identifying shell entities or opaque ownership chains used to conceal beneficial owners involved in image rights manipulations.
  • Provides incorporation details, shareholder information, and corporate histories of lobbying firms or intermediary entities.
  • Identifies newly formed or atypical firms used as conduits for illicit political funding.
  • Reveals hidden ownership structures or shell entities involved in campaign donations or lobbying payments.
T0144.019
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Provides official registration and beneficial ownership details for entities involved in the scheme, enabling investigators to identify potential shell companies or undisclosed controlling interests used to layer funds within Ponzi operations.

Contains details on registered businesses, their ownership structures, and key personnel. This data supports:

  • Verifying the legitimacy of intermediaries or shell entities involved in precious metals or gemstone trades.
  • Identifying beneficial owners who may conceal illicit proceeds under complex corporate setups.
  • Detecting undisclosed or suspicious business relationships tied to trade-based laundering.
  • Contains official registration details and beneficial ownership structures of companies.
  • Identifies shell or front companies and undisclosed owners involved in chemical procurement.
  • Supports verification of corporate legitimacy and alignment with declared business activities.

Offer official registration and shareholding data, including directors, corporate structures, and beneficial owners. Investigators can trace how professional intermediaries form or manage complex entities, revealing hidden ownership layers used to obscure the origin and destination of illicit funds.

Provides official details on company formation, ownership, directorships, and historical registration changes.

  • Identifies potential shell or front companies used to funnel extortion proceeds.
  • Validates the legitimacy of business structures that might otherwise conceal coercive payment flows.

Provides official or aggregated information on company ownership structures, directors, and shareholders. Helps confirm that declared beneficial owners align with registry data, revealing discrepancies that may point to a proxy arrangement.

Official or aggregated records detailing corporate structures, shareholders, and beneficial owners.

  • Identifies shell or front companies used to purchase properties at auction and obscure ultimate ownership.
  • Verifies the authenticity of corporate entities, supporting the detection of layered or non-operational business vehicles funneling illicit funds.
  • Documents business registration details, ownership structures, shareholders, and potential shell entities used in property deals.
  • Enables verification of ultimate beneficiaries behind real estate transactions involving escrow accounts, helping expose hidden or suspicious actors.

Consolidates official data on company registration, shareholders, and ultimate beneficial owners. This enables the identification of shell or collusive entities behind red/green clause LCs, especially when layered ownership structures conceal illicit activity.

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  • Provide official records of legal entities, including shareholders, directors, and beneficial owners.
  • Useful for uncovering shell entities or obscured ownership structures behind remote mining providers or intermediary companies in high-risk jurisdictions.
  • Maintains official records of company formation, ownership structures, and beneficial owners.
  • Helps confirm contractor legitimacy and detect newly formed or shell entities issuing suspicious renovation invoices.
  • Provides official details of legal entities, including shareholders, directors, and beneficial owners.
  • Assists in uncovering shell companies or obscured beneficial ownership structures used to conceal laundering through rental income.
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Provides official registration data, ownership structures, directorships, and beneficial owner details. This enables investigators to verify whether a cryptocurrency project has a legitimate corporate presence or to identify missing or fraudulent ownership disclosures that often signal rug pull scams.

  • Contains official corporate registration information, shareholder data, and beneficial ownership structures.
  • Helps identify shell or front companies used to obscure sanctioned individuals or entities, which is critical for exposing hidden ownership ties in sanctions evasion schemes.
  • Provides official corporate registration data, including details of shareholders, directors, and associated licensing or regulatory filings.
  • Supports cross-referencing claimed sector-specific credentials or permits against legitimate corporate records, exposing documents inconsistent with genuine ownership or licensing status.

Provides official registration and incorporation data (e.g., shareholders, directors, historical ownership changes), enabling AML teams to detect:

  • Nominee or proxy structures obscuring the true beneficial owners of securities accounts.
  • Front entities or shell companies lacking legitimate activity.
  • Sudden changes in listed signatories or controllers.
  • Complex, multi-layer ownership arrangements designed to hide real control.

Leveraging this information helps confirm the authenticity of ownership claims and uncover hidden parties behind securities account manipulation.

  • Official registration details of entities, including incorporation dates, ownership, and directorship information.
  • Detects newly established or frequently restructured companies lacking transparent or legitimate business history.
  • Supports investigation into beneficial owners behind potentially fictitious or shell consulting firms.
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  • Contains official registration details, including incorporation dates, addresses, beneficial ownership structures, directorship data, and historical changes.
  • Facilitates detection of repetitive or shared addresses, frequent changes in beneficial ownership, and older incorporation dates without corresponding business activity—key attributes of shelf companies seeking to obscure true control or convey false legitimacy.
  • Provides official registration details, beneficial ownership structures, directors, and shareholders.
  • Helps identify nominee directors, fictitious shareholders, or hidden beneficial owners.
  • Facilitates detection of shell company usage by verifying actual ownership and cross-checking for unusual overlaps or contradictory information.
  • Provides official or aggregated details of corporate registration, ownership structures, and beneficial owners.
  • Verifies whether purported social media 'employers' hold legitimate corporate standing or are shell/nonexistent entities.
  • Enhances AML investigations by identifying fraudulent or unregistered businesses often involved in money mule schemes.
  • Data elements: Official or aggregated corporate filings, ownership structures, shareholder and director details, and partnership records.
  • AML Use: Reveals hidden or opaque ownership networks behind club investors, sponsors, or intermediary firms, helping detect undisclosed beneficiaries or politically exposed influencers involved in funding the club.
  • Provides official registration and ownership structures of sponsoring entities or intermediary companies.
  • Helps identify the real owners behind front companies used in complex sponsorship or image-rights arrangements, revealing potential offshore or hidden controllers facilitating illicit fund flows.
  • Contain official records on companies, shareholders, and beneficial owners.
  • Help identify shell entities or undisclosed owners controlling multiple trading accounts.
  • Support detection of complex corporate structures used to obscure ultimate beneficiaries in stock manipulation scenarios.
  • Provides official or aggregated information on corporate structures, shareholders, directors, and beneficial owners.
  • Enables detection of shared or hidden ownership across borrower and lender entities, revealing conflicts of interest or collusion in syndicated financing schemes.
  • Discloses organizational structures, shareholders, directors, and ultimate beneficial owners.
  • Supports identification of shell companies or undisclosed entities used to shift profits and conceal taxable income.
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  • Provides official corporate ownership, registration, and control information.
  • Detects newly formed shell companies or irregular ownership changes used to file suspicious refund claims.
  • Clarifies beneficial ownership structures exploited to disguise fraudulent tax rebate activities.
  • Provides official incorporation and dissolution data, revealing short business lifespans.
  • Tracks directors, shareholders, and beneficial owners, helping detect nominee roles and sudden changes.
  • Identifies repetitive formation and dissolution patterns by the same principals or corporate service providers.

These details directly support detecting ephemeral shell companies used for rapid laundering cycles.

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  • Provides official records of business registration, shareholders, directors, and ultimate beneficial owners.
  • Detects multiple newly formed entities under the same owner purporting to offer timeshare resale services.
  • Facilitates verification of actual real estate closings or documented transactions tied to these entities.

Provides official or aggregated entity registration details, including beneficial ownership, directors, and historical registrations. Enables detection of newly formed or dormant companies, suspicious freight forwarders, or other unverified intermediaries associated with trade diversion schemes.

Details corporate structures, shareholders, and ultimate beneficial owners of entities engaged in trade finance. Reviewing these registries helps identify shell companies, front entities, or collusive participants facilitating trade-based money laundering.

  • Details formal company registrations, ownership structures, shareholders, and beneficial owners.
  • Helps reveal shell entities and hidden ownership arrangements that may enable or conceal trade misinvoicing activities.

Houses official entity information, including registration details, directors, shareholders, and ultimate beneficial owners, enabling the identification of overlapping ownership across multiple import/export businesses. This insight helps detect collusive arrangements used to layer invoices or channel funds through affiliated entities in trade-based money laundering.

  • Consolidates official registration data, shareholder and director information, and beneficial ownership structures.
  • Enables tracing of common ownership or hidden relationships among entities, revealing inter-company links exploited in transfer pricing manipulation.
  • Stores core registration details of legal entities and their beneficial owners.
  • Assists in uncovering undisclosed or frequently altered ownership information that may indicate obfuscation through trusts or fiduciary structures.

Provides official registration data, ownership structures, and beneficial owner identities. This data:

  • Confirms whether an entity presenting business income is legitimately registered or licensed.
  • Identifies multiple unregistered companies sharing the same beneficial owner, suggesting potential funneling of undeclared funds.
  • Highlights disparities between purported commercial activities and formal registry information, revealing possible underreporting.
  • Provide official records of registration details, shareholders, directors, and beneficial owners, which are crucial for verifying legitimate control over merchant entities.
  • Help validate or refute claimed relationships between payers and the merchant, revealing shell companies or hidden ownership structures used to obscure illicit proceeds.
  • Aid in tracing beneficial ownership when criminals open aggregator or merchant accounts under false pretenses to conceal the true recipients of funds.
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  • Centralizes corporate registration details, including shareholders, directors, and beneficial owners.
  • Reveals hidden or constantly changing ownership structures used by unlicensed MSBs to conceal operations.
  • Helps identify front or shell entities facilitating unregulated money transfers.

Provides official registration records and ownership structures, assisting in pinpointing enterprises registered under minimal disclosure jurisdictions or multiple entities sharing the same ownership and addresses. This is critical for identifying potential shell or virtual setups.

  • Contains data on corporate structures, including registration details, shareholders, directors, and ultimate beneficial owners.
  • Helps identify shell companies and undisclosed ownership ties often used to launder proceeds from wildlife trafficking.
  • Facilitates linking questionable entities to known traffickers or high-risk networks.
  • Provides official or aggregated details on company registration, ownership structures, and controlling parties.
  • Helps identify shell or front companies used to open accounts for layering, and uncovers undisclosed beneficial owners who may be involved in complex wire transfers.