Restricting Kleptocracy Knowledge Hub
The purpose of this knowledge hub is to provide materials and resources related to FATF developments, including key findings of Mutual Evaluation Reports and financial crime issues such as asset recovery. It has been designed to provide quick access for civil society organisations (CSOs) and journalists to help stay up to date with key FATF developments.
About the project
The platform is part of the project 'Restricting Kleptocracy: Strengthening Monitoring and Accountability in the First Mile', which centres on Latin America, East Africa, Southeast Asia and the Balkans as regional hubs for financial crime. By building partnerships with investigative journalists and civil society, the project aims to equip them with the knowledge, connections and understanding to hold to account the state institutions who should be preventing the outflows of the proceeds of corruption.
Project team
Tom Keatinge
Director, CFS
Centre for Finance and Security
Alanna Putze
Senior Corporate Partnership Manager
Business Development
Stephen Reimer
Associate Fellow
Dr Maria Nizzero
Research Fellow
Centre for Finance and Security
Arzu Abbasova
Research Analyst
Centre for Finance and Security
Related projects
Empowering civil society and the media to tackle illicit financial flows in Latin America, East Africa and the Western Balkans.
Mutual Evaluation Report Summaries
Each Mutual Evaluation Report Summary offers a concise examination of the assessed country’s overall ratings, highlights major identified deficiencies, and presents recommended priority actions. These summaries aim to provide a streamlined and accessible resource for navigating the often lengthy and complex Mutual Evaluation Reports.
Online Resources
Databases and search engine
Dateas
Website which compiles public records and documents from several Latin American countries (Spanish).
Foreign Agents Registry
Database of lobbyists registered with the US government.
OCCRP Investigative Dashboard
Global index of public records of companies, property and court documents
Aleph
Search engine with aggregated information from a series of data bases.
Offshore Alert
Reports on offshore jurisdictions, sharing judicial information about companies, individuals.
Pacer
Website that enables search for cases in the United States.
Recap
Collaborative project that collects as many US court documents and cases as possible.
Verifíquese
Mobile application which compiles public information from registers in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama and Peru (Spanish).
Webarchive
Historical digital library of websites created by the Internet Archive organisation.
People search engines
WhoIS
Pipl
TruePeopleSearch
TruthFinder
Leaks
These sources include a direct link to leaks for different kind:
Intelligence X
GhostProject
DeHashed
SpyCloud
Company information
An increasing number of countries have beneficial ownership registries, as required by global standards. Below are some of the current, freely accessible tools.
Open Corporates
US corporate registration
EDGAR (US Companies).
European Union Business Registries
Companies house - United Kingdom
Luxembourg Business Registers
ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database
Tutorials and online trainings.
Advanced Google search tutorial
Google Search Operators: Complete List - by Joshua Hardwick
Google Power Search – by Stephan Spencer
‘Follow the money’ tutorial - by Paul Radu, co-founder of OCCRP
Guide on conducting investigations(in Spanish) - by Ojo Público (Perú)
Finance Uncovered