OSINT (open-source intelligence)
Definition
Publicly available information gathered from company registries, land registers, court records, social media, and news archives to build a factual picture of assets and relationships without requiring covert access.
Related terms
- Asset tracing
- The forensic process of following funds or property from a fraudulent source through subsequent transactions, corporate structures, and jurisdictions to locate where...
- Bank reconciliation analysis
- The systematic comparison of bank statements against internal ledgers and third-party transaction records to identify unexplained credits, diverted payments, or missing entries.
- Beneficial owner
- The natural person who ultimately owns or controls an asset or entity, regardless of how many nominee or corporate layers stand in...
- Freezing injunction
- A court order, often called a Mareva injunction, that prevents a defendant from moving or disposing of assets up to the value...
- Shell company
- A legal entity with no active business operations, used to hold assets or pass money through while concealing the identity of the...
Explained in
- Asset Tracing MethodologiesPublicly available information gathered from company registries, land registers, court records, social media, and news archives to build a factual picture of a...