OCCRP ALEPH

OCCRP Aleph is a digital tool that allows journalists to search and cross-reference over three billion records to identify criminal connections and patterns and engage with others in cross-border collaboration. Underpinning Aleph is a knowledge graph tying together companies, people, payments, public records and leaked data as well as other core elements of "follow the money investigations". It supports multiple languages and alphabets, optical character recognition, and named entity extraction and has the ability to cross reference a list of entities - such as a list of any country's politicians - against all the other datasets and leaks in the corpus. Aleph allows journalists to save time and resources when looking for background information on a person or company that is a target in an investigation. It also enables more in-depth data analysis of leaks received by OCCRP and shared with the wider journalism community. Due to its sensitive nature, OCCRP has rigorous access management controls, with only a fraction of data available to the wider public. Aleph has already been deployed by 40 media outlets and NGOs including The Wall Street Journal, the BBC, Suddeutsche Zeitung, Der Spiegel, Global Witness, and Bellingcat. The public version is available at aleph.occrp.org