Praetorian Connections

In order to help a FTSE 100 client understand the risk of breaching Russia-related sanctions, Praetorian carried out a short-turnaround investigation into a UAE-based company that synthesised local enquiries with a data-led, deep-dive analysis. This highlighted senior management relationships between the company and a Russian company with links to the military establishment.

Multi-Lingual, Multi-Source Insight

The investigation initially sought to identify ultimate beneficial ownership (UBO) information for a company located in an Emirati free zone, in order to identify any commercial links with a potentially related Russian company. Praetorian quickly and discretely began local enquiries to obtain the relevant UBO records from a challenging jurisdiction. At the same time, a wider multi-lingual investigation of both companies and their senior management was carried out across a variety of datasets and investigative platforms. Although local enquiries and UBO records did not indicate any specific sanctions risk, the concurrent technical investigation highlighted senior management links with the Russian company and attempts to obfuscate these relationships. This case highlighted the importance of holistic, all-source research into potential compliance risk that extends beyond simple UBO checks. In this instance, Praetorian’s investigative capability and unique data accesses enabled the client to fully understand the potential risks from their counterparty.

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Emerging Technology

A key thematic is identifying technologies utilised within the geopolitical and security space. Identifying new equipment and understanding their ecosystems and how they relate to other technologies. This information is available as structured data for direct ingestion into client systems or as deep dive reporting.

Verified Events

Praetorian’s events reporting uses linguist analysts with deep knowledge of information environments. Their ability to harness leading edge technology, within a human in the loop ecosystem, ensures we are able to access unique primary source reporting, safely and securely from hard to access environments. Working as a multi-source digital collection platform we access data from a broad spectrum, collating, validating and fusing to ensure outputs are assured and actionable.

Organised Crime

Praetorian has supported law-enforcement agencies and large scale corporates in understanding high level organised crime operations. Producing intelligence that can be used as evidence we have been able to assist business to ensure they are not in breach of compliance regulations, whilst supporting law-enforcement in actively disrupting organised crime syndicates.

Geo-Political Indicators

By collating multi-source data relating to specific information environments, Praetorian’s Linguist Analysts look for trends that can build towards conflict or instability. Monitoring across thematics has allowed clients to position their organisation prior to an event happening, with key indicators and warnings being identified from unique sources. Focus ranges from conflict escalation through to supply chain analysis and manufacturing disruption modelling.

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Supply Chain Investigations

Following the rapid expansion in the use of export controls in recent years, the compliance risks of inadvertently or intentionally breaching these controls have increased dramatically. In order to help a client understand the sanctions risk relating to a Europe-based electronics supplier, Praetorian leveraged its significant supply chain investigative experience to research this company’s foreign buyers.