Showcase: Who is using OpenSanctions

ICIJ's investigation into Cyprus reveals how Cypriot financial enablers scrambled to help Russian oligarchs and Putin allies shield their assets and avoid Western sanctions. Their investigative methodology describes how the consortium used OpenSanctions to support their investigation.

The service tracks the asset declarations filed by officials. They use OpenSanctions to highlight which politicians and functionaries are subject to sanctions by the international community.

RuAssets is an international tool for searching for Russian and Belarusian assets, and to seize the property of those responsible for the war in Ukraine. Sanctions and PEPs data is combined with a company and property registries.

Aleph uses sanctions and politicians lists as contrast material that helps to find evidence of illicit activity and corruption in large datasets, such as leaked documents or company ownership databases.

Non-profit investigative outlets CORRECTIV and Lighthouse Reports cooperated in early 2022 to track the scope of the Russia-related sanctions imposed by the international community. Their analysis categorises individual sanctions targets into oligarchs, politicians and others. Introduction

AMLYZE is a RegTech company and SaaS provider offering a suite of tools to combat financial crime. Their products include real-time and retrospective transaction monitoring, AML risk assessment, and AML/CFT investigation tools.

OMNIO uses machine learning technology and compliance knowledge to automate financial crime compliance processes. In their Customer Monitoring, they use OpenSanctions to instantly check for sanctions, PEP, and negative media.

Chipper Cash is a financial technology company serving more than five million customers across Africa. Chipper provides a frictionless way to send and receive money cross-border, plus offers personal investments and digital business solutions.

Utilizing OpenSanctions data, the Guernsey Financial Intelligence Unit enhances its efforts in combating money laundering and drug trafficking. Handling over 1,500 regulated entities, including 20 banks, the FIU operates under FATF standards.

Ukraine's National Agency on Corruption Prevention uses our linked-up data to track the adoption of Russia-related sanctions by other countries and drive efforts to advocate for additional designations by national authorities across the world.

Chainalysis provides solutions for entities that need to track crime involving cryptocurrencies, and manage crypto risk. OpenSanctions data provides an ingredient to their sanctions tracking product.

We provide data exports in the Senzing entity format that make it trivial to load OpenSanctions into the Senzing entity resolution engine and find links to another database - be it your customer database, or the procurement records for a whole nation.

Videris is a complete investigations and intelligence platform which allows investigators and analysts to collect, analyse and visualise open source data in one place. Blackdot has integrated OpenSanctions to allow users to quickly search, map and understand sanctioned entities and their networks.

Maltego is an open source intelligence and graphical link analysis tool for gathering and connecting information for investigative tasks. Maltego is used by a broad range of users, ranging from security professionals to forensic investigators, investigative journalists, and researchers.

OpenScreening offers free access to an interactive PEP & Sanctions screening playground combining Linkurious' powerful investigation software with our graph data to uncover the hidden connections between sanctions targets, politicians and offshore companies.