INVESTIGATOR builds on five pillars which will make it a must have for banks, financial institutions, and corporates:

1. Cross-border coverage: INVESTIGATOR allows tracing firms at a global level (220+ countries, 380M firms), allowing to tackle the transnational nature of organised and financial crimes;
2. Know-how of criminal schemes: INVESTIGATOR exploits the unique knowledge of criminal and fraud schemes and anomalous behaviours developed by Transcrime in more than 25 years of frontier scientific research;
3. Frontier predictive approach: INVESTIGATOR builds on Crime&tech AI capabilities, and on machine learning models with proven and strong predictive power;
4. Compliance with rules: INVESTIGATOR follows a privacy-by-designconcept and is compliant with key issues in the investigative domain: Personal data protection; IT security; Data provenance models;
5. Cost-efficiency: INVESTIGATOR has a very competitive pricing with respect to other software in this field, allowing to use a particularly effective tool without impacting heavily on the budget.

INVESTIGATOR can be used by a wide number of end-users in a variety of domains:

• Obliged entities in AML customer due diligence;
• Corporates and financial institutions in anti-fraud risk assessment;
• Private and public bodies for risk assessment of vendors, distributors, counterparts;
• Private and public organizations in procurement integrity checks.

• Private companies wishing to map the risks of the areas where to establish new plants, premises or stores.
• Insurance companies wishing to improve the calculation of insurance policies and premiums.
• Private businesses wishing to assess the security level of the territories where their goods, employees and managers move or operate.
• Public institutions (e.g. government offices, local administrations) interested in mapping the risks in their territories.
• Information providers wishing to enrich their data-portfolio with information and indicators about security and crime.

• Banks and professionals involved in AML customer due diligence activities
• Local governments interested in evaluating the risk of corruption in their areas of activities
• Private companies and public bodies interested in the risk profiling of their clients and suppliers
• Public institutions wishing to evaluat the risk of criminal infiltration in companies applying for public tenders and procurements.

• Private companies wishing to profile their clients and markets.
• Public institutions (e.g. municipalities, regional governments) interested in analysing the level of security of their territories.
• Private businesses wishing to map the vulnerabilities to specific crimes of their supply-chains.
• Companies who want to assess the effectiveness of the organisational and technological solutions they have adopted for crime prevention and compliance purposes.

The key objective of this study is the estimation of illicit cut tobacco consumption, with a specific topic on Bulk tobacco, in 15 countries in Europe. The report depicts a comprehensive picture of this issue and highlights the similarities and the connections among the countries analysed.

The countries covered by this study are Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

Here is the Full Report

Here is the Executive Summary

Here is the Methodological Appendix

• Banks and private companies who have to respond to AML obligations.
• Public and private actors interested in developing organisational models and control systems in the field of corporate criminal liability (Legislative Decree 231/2001).
• Public institutions wishing to implement anti-corruption plans and develop appropriate prevention and control systems.