KLEPTOTRACE

Don't miss the webinar "𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝗱𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴: 𝗲𝘅𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗿𝘂𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗲𝘀" 🗓 2 December 2025 - Online Drawing on empirical research conducted within the FALCON – Fighting Corruption and Organised Crime and KLEPTOTRACE projects, we will examine the financial dynamics that sustain grand corruption: ▪️ how legally acquired funds become bribes, channelled through sophisticated arrangements (money dirtying) ▪️ how proceeds from corruption are then obscured through increasingly transnational laundering structures (money laundering) Learn more and register 👇

👇 Join us online for the 1st DATACROS III training: "𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗗𝗘𝗧𝗘𝗖𝗧 | How to early-detect organised crime infiltration, corruption and fraud: red-flags and best practices" 🔹 14 Nov 2025 🔹 10:30 - 16:30 CET 🔹 Online (Webex) #PublicProcurement, local authorisations, and service contracts are prime targets for organised crime, exploiting administrative gaps to gain long-term influence over key sectors. Our training will equip local public bodies with the knowledge and tools to detect risk signals and prevent criminal infiltration in the legal economy. Aimed at city councils, regional governments, contracting authorities, and European bodies involved in procurement or compliance, the session will cover: 🔻 Risk analysis & open data 🔻 Whistleblowing and safeguards in public procurement 🔻 Due diligence best practices and tools 🔻 Social re-use of confiscated assets Organised by RE-ACT and Transcrime-Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. 🔗 Free of charge participation. Registration required: https://lnkd.in/dqg5GiQN

Increasingly agile manoeuvres across financial domains and assets allow criminal networks to keep resources out of sight.   An example provided by Transcrime’s analyses under project KLEPTOTRACE: three out of four cases of evaded targeted sanctions (i.e. involving designated entities, not sectors) involved economic resources beyond monetary funds — most notably real estate (27.8% cases), vehicles, and vessels. (📄Full report: https://lnkd.in/dwV7H6Xf).   To keep investigative workflows aligned with criminal practice, we are upgrading the #DATACROS tool to move beyond disentangling corporate structures. Among the new modules 👇   🔹 Expanded data sources, e.g. real estate, vehicle, and vessel data integrated with corporate records to improve asset traceability, with a module developed by Crime&tech srl. 🔹 Image-based extraction. Automated analysis of street-view and satellite imagery to support asset tracing and detect anomalous offices inconsistent with company financials — often a marker of shell firms. Module developed by Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH).   🔗 See the full range of new DATACROS modules to enhance #financialcrime investigations in Europe: https://lnkd.in/d-E-enME

“𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗩𝗼𝗹𝘂𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘁𝘆” is the theme of this year's INTERPOL New Technology Forum (Vienna, 23–24 September). Transcrime will join this debate which will span quantum computing, decentralised systems, encrypted communications, AI and advanced methods for large-scale data processing. Our Michele Riccardi will present the approach we are adopting in models and tools developed with multiple EU-funded projects: integrating heterogeneous datasets — e.g. business registries, cadastral records, satellite imagery — to extract anomaly indicators that guide and streamline investigative efforts across organised and financial crime domains. See this approach to business risk profiling in action. Visit: 🔸 Datacros III Project (financial crime) 👉 https://www.datacros3.com/ 🔸 #INVERT (labour exploitation) 👉 https://invert-project.eu/ 🔸 KLEPTOTRACE (sanctions evasion) 👉 https://lnkd.in/eds9rCXy 🔸 FALCON – Fighting Corruption and Organised Crime 👉 https://lnkd.in/ee4DhE8E #NTF2025 is organised by INTERPOL Innovation Centre with the Bavarian State Ministry of Justice and the Complexity Science Hub.

Another investigation showcases the capabilities we developed in #KLEPTOTRACE – now being enhanced in the Datacros III Project, also led by Transcrime – to identify hidden links between companies and sanctioned individuals, among other features. Read how journalists from our partner IrpiMedia employed our tool 👇

New #DATACROS website 👇 visit and follow KLEPTOTRACE's sister project!