Oligarch Atlas
An investigative research platform that aggregates public records, sanctions lists, corporate filings, vessel registries, and property data into searchable profiles of high-risk individuals and their asset networks — built for journalists and researchers who can't afford a dedicated OSINT team.
Investigative journalists, NGO researchers, and due-diligence analysts tracking oligarch wealth and sanctions exposure
- Unified person profiles that link a name across sanctions lists, corporate registries (OpenCorporates), yacht databases, and asset registries with conflict-of-source flagging
- Network visualization that maps an individual to their companies, family members, co-investors, and known proxies (the 'Bataillon Monaco' web at a glance)
- Watchlist and alert system that notifies a journalist when a tracked person or vessel appears in new filings, court records, or sanctions updates
- Exportable evidence packets with source links and timestamps suitable for editorial citation and FOI requests
The 'Bataillon Monaco' story demonstrates how clusters of sanctioned or controversial figures concentrate in specific jurisdictions and how hard it is to track them across registries — a tooling gap that surfaces only when scandals break.
OCCRP Aleph alone indexes 1B+ records across 300+ datasets and 180+ countries and is described as the single most important open database for cross-border financial investigations, proving real, sustained demand from journalists and NGOs.Aleph (OCCRP) — Security Rating for Journalists | Fieldwork ↗Find public records and leaks - Aleph Pro ↗
Space is already crowded: OpenSanctions (open-source, pay-as-you-go API with explicit journalist/activist exemptions), OCCRP Aleph Pro (hosted tiered access), OSINT Industries, Refinitiv World-Check, ComplyAdvantage, and Sanctions Checklist all directly target sanctions/PEP lookup and asset-network research.Licensing OpenSanctions bulk data ↗OpenSanctions: Supreme Data on Supreme Leaders ↗Compare Sanctions Screening Tools & Pricing ↗
Target buyers are journalists and NGOs with thin budgets; OpenSanctions already waives fees for journalists and OCCRP grants case-by-case free access to Aleph, while compliance-side pricing (Refinitiv, ComplyAdvantage) is dominated by incumbents — hard to capture meaningful share above commodity data.Licensing OpenSanctions bulk data ↗Frequently Asked Questions - Aleph Pro ↗
Sanctions regimes (OFAC, EU, UK), post-2022 Russia oligarch enforcement, and ongoing offshore-leak scandals make dirty-money tracking a structurally durable need that survives news cycles.13 Best OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) Tools for 2025 ↗
Matching Aleph's 1B-record, 300-source index is capital- and engineering-heavy; corporate registry/sanctions scraping, entity resolution and dedup at that scale are not trivial, and competing against an open-source OpenSanctions baseline raises the bar substantially.Aleph (OCCRP) — Security Rating for Journalists | Fieldwork ↗GitHub - opensanctions/opensanctions: An open database of international ... ↗