The ownership of the luxury Dilbar yacht is obscured but thought to be associated with oligarch Alisher Usmanov (Foto: Paul Townley)
Investigating ultimate beneficial ownership structures can be a challenge. Dozens, sometimes hundreds of entities, such as persons, addresses and shell companies need to be analyzed to understand who is the ultimate owner of an economic asset. This is even more complex when data from different sources and with different data structures is fed into an analysis tool.
The recent webinar by our partners at Open Ownership and GraphAware showcased how this can be done with the help of the graph analysis technology provided by GraphAware.
In the webinar, GraphAware’s CTO Christophe Willemsen, with the help of OpenSanctions data, disentangles a web of entities related to Alisher Usmanov. The Uzbek-Russian oligarch has been sanctioned by a number of countries including the European Union.
Willemsen shows how, with the help of entity resolution technology provided by Senzing, the graph analysis tool groups together entities that at first sight had no connection as they originate from different datasets.
This reduces the risk that investigators overlook crucial connections in a complex web of entities, for example when assessing the risk of sanctions evasion.
