The action aims at developing a tool prototype to detect anomalies in firms’ ownership structure that can flag high risks of collusion, corruption and laundering of corruption proceeds. The “DATACROS” tool will help detecting:

• Ownership links among a set of firms (e.g. bidders in a procurement) to detect collusion patterns;
• Ownership links between firms and politically exposed persons, including also low-rank and local PEPs not covered by the EU regulation;
• Complex cross-border firms’ ownership structures and ownership links to off-shore and risky jurisdictions.

The action can benefit a wide range of stakeholders in the EU and beyond, by:

• Improving police investigation and judicial authorities’ prosecution capabilities on cases of corruption and laundering of its proceeds, especially cross-border ones;
• Helping national and local public bodies to assess collusion risks in procurement;
• Allowing investigative journalists, NGOs and the whole civil society to check anomalous interactions between politics and business;
• Facilitating national and EU authorities to map the role of entities from risky jurisdictions in public spending in the EU.

Working group:

1. Ernesto Savona - Director of Transcrime
2. Antonio Bosisio - Collaborator 
3. Maria Elena Cenci - Collaborator
4. Michele Riccardi - Collaborator
5. Massimiliano Carpino - Collaborator
6. Svein Brovold Parnas - Collaborator
7. Gianluca Angelo Bertoni - Collaborator
8. Carlo Castorina - Collaborator
9. Carlotta Carbone - Collaborator

Partner:

1. Univeristà Cattolica del Sacro Cuore-Transcrime (Coordinator)
2. Agence française anticorruption AFA - France
3. Cuerpo Nacional de la Policia - Spain
4. Investigative Reporting Project IRP - Italy