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Moving Money Inside the global watchlist for banking across borders Tom Wills (UK) Times of London Jasmin Klofta (Germany) PANORAMA (NDR/ARD) Eveline Lubbers Stefania Maurizi Lars Bov Cora Currier (Netherlands) (Italy) (Belgium)

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Moving Money

Inside the global watchlist for banking across borders

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Tom Wills (UK) Times of London Jasmin Klofta (Germany) PANORAMA (NDR/ARD)

Eveline Lubbers (Netherlands) Argos & OneWorld Stefania Maurizi (Italy) La Repubblica Lars Bové (Belgium) De Tijd Cora Currier (USA) The Intercept

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Source: https://risk.thomsonreuters.com/en/products/world-check-one-kyc-verification-b.html Retrieved 19 Dec 2017

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Source: https://risk.thomsonreuters.com/en/products/world-check-one-kyc-verification-b.html Retrieved 19 Dec 2017

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Source: https://risk.thomsonreuters.com/en/products/world-check-one-kyc-verification-b.html Retrieved 19 Dec 2017

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Thomson Reuters claims that World Check

  • adds 20,000 profiles a month
  • updates 40,000 profiles a month
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Then, there was a leak.

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Chris Vickery

Foto: Medium.com

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World-Check.json

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id revision entity_type first_name surname aliases position category sub-category date_of_birth country citizenship locations information_text linked_to linked_companies source_urls date_entered date_updated

Field list

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Source: Veja magazine (Brazil)

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Source: Veja magazine (Brazil)

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Source: Veja magazine (Brazil)

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Source: Veja magazine (Brazil)

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Source: Veja magazine (Brazil)

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Number of people in World-Check by country

Countries with at least 5,000 entries. Non-PEPs are individuals not designated as Politically Exposed Persons. PEPs are Politically Exposed Persons, not including relatives of other PEPs. PEP relatives are people designated as relatives of other PEPs.

Source: @TomWills analysis of a leaked copy of the World-Check database as it stood in 2014

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Greenpeace protesting the “Star Wars” missile-defense program in 2001

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Photo: SeaDave on Flickr. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

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Photo: Kreepin Death on Wikimedia. Used under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.

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Source: https://risk.thomsonreuters.com/en/products/world-check-one-kyc-verification-b.html Retrieved 19 Dec 2017

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5.

Wikipedia

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4.

Conspiracy Sites Cyberclass.net

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3.

State-Run/ Propaganda Sites F .e. chinese

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2.

Race-hate sites

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1.

Neonazi Site Stormfront

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news site = conspiracy site = state-run site = extremist sites

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Source: Veja magazine (Brazil)

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Source: Veja magazine (Brazil)

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Source: Veja magazine (Brazil)

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Andrej Holm

  • renowned sociologist
  • for a short time

Housing Secretary in the Berlin state government

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Andrej Holm

"I have a bad feeling when my life is recorded there without me being aware of it or having any influence on it.”

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  • Q. Please could you

confjrm that the Co-op Bank has used World Check as part of its anti- money laundering procedures?

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  • Q. Please could you

confjrm that the Co-op Bank has used World Check as part of its anti- money laundering procedures?

  • A. “I can confjrm that The

Co-operative Bank doesn't use, and has not used World Check.”

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site:linkedin.com “world-check” “co-operative bank”

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  • Q. See LinkedIn profjle

attached.

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  • Q. See LinkedIn profjle

attached.

  • A. “I can confjrm that we

do not use World Check and any access to that database the bank had was in excess of fjve years ago.”

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World-Check’s response

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Why has this happened?

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Can the system be repaired?

  • Better sources?
  • Indication of information quality?
  • Right of reply?
  • Open source watchlist: www.opensanctions.org?
  • Transfer responsibility to the judicial system?
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If you have an idea for an investigation, please contact me...

Tom Wills Freelance Data Journalist Email mail@tomwills.net PGP fingerprint B3B8 C7A6 A594 5F95 F412 E7B5 B052 FDA0 2D05 954C