The final webinar of the Datacros II project was held on 30 January and engaged more than 550 registrants. It was delivered by the Datacros II partners, representatives of public and private organisations and academic research.

During the webinar, we presented the key findings of the project and the tool for risk assessment of legitimate companies, which is able to detect anomalies in the ownership structure, suspicious links or activities of businesses that indicate a high risk of collusion, corruption and money laundering. We demonstrated use cases where the DATACROS tool has been successfully used to assess the risk of financial crimes, providing empirical validation of the tool, and discussed with practitioners how this tool has improved financial crime investigation and risk assessment processes.

A video selection of key extracts from the webinar is available below.

For more information and the agenda of the final webinar click HERE

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“Investigating corruption, organised and financial crimes with innovative data and tools”

• The EU strategy against organised and financial crime

• DATACROS II project overview

• DATACROS II tool in action

• The benefits of DATACROS II tool: the experience of end-users

• DATACROS II risk indicators

For more information on the project and tool, contact transcrime@unicatt.it

The content of these videos represents the views of the speakers only and is their sole responsibility. The European Commission does not accept any responsibility for use that may be made of the information it contains.

DATACROS II Final Conference

The DATACROS II consortium met today at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan for the final workshop of the project. We evaluated the use of the DATACROS tool by 17 end-users (public and law enforcement agencies, investigative journalists, and civil society) and Transcrime. Among others, by:

– the French Autorité de la concurrence, to detect collusion in French public procurement;
– Cuerpo Nacional de Policía (CNP), to investigate cross-border money laundering between Spain and other countries;
– the Romanian National Agency for the Management of Seized Assets (ANABI), to investigate an international case of embezzlement;
– the Agence française anticorruption, to carry out due diligence activity;
– the Belgian Federal Police, to investigate illicit trafficking;
– the Czech competition authority Úřad pro ochranu hospodářské soutěže, to investigate potential prohibited agreements on pricing of goods for resale;
– Irpi Media, to investigate fraud involving EU public funds and organised crime in Rome;
– RISE Project, to analyse money laundering and PEPs between Romania and Spain.

And precious contributions from Europol, Autorità Nazionale Anticorruzione, National Integrity Agency, National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA), Crime&tech srl and the representative of the European Commission, on the prevention of public procurement corruption and other financialcrime schemes.

The use cases will be presented during the final public webinar in January. More information will be available soon on the Datacros website and social media channels.

Join the Datacros II webinar with investigative journalists:

“Investigating financial crime with data and tools”

November 16th 2023, h. 10:00 – 12:00 CET

The webinar aims to provide investigative journalists from across Europe with some useful tips on how to conduct investigations into corruption, collusion, money laundering and financial crime, and how to make the best use of the data and tools available in this field. The webinar will be attended by a number of investigative journalists, including project partners IRPI Media (Italy) and CONTEXT.RO/RISE (Romania), as well as academic researchers from Transcrime – Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. They will discuss databases (company registers, registers of beneficial owners, company data providers and other sources), company-level anomaly indicators and how the investigative tool developed by the DATACROS project has been used in journalistic investigations at European level. The webinar will be held in English and is free of charge.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/datacros-ii-webinar-with-investigative-journalists-tickets-743461953717

Full agenda: click HERE

On Thursday 9th March June all the partners of DATACROS II will join the Mid Term meeting of the project.

The meeting will be held online and will be a great opportunity to discuss the latest updates on the project’s status and to discuss together the next steps.

The objectives of the meeting will be:

1. discussing the progress made during the first half of the project
2. present the Beta version of the tool and share access to the platform
3. plan trial and testing phase

On Wednesday 22^nd June all the partners of DATACROS II joined the first Workshop of the project.

The meeting was held online and provided a great opportunity to share the latest updates on the project’s status and to discuss together next steps.

The event was structured around three sessions, according to the following plan:

• The first session allowed to discuss End-User requirements and expectations on functions and features of the tool and of the indicators, defining the feasibility of these elements.
• During the second session researchers from Transcrime, project Coordinator, showed the participants an in-depth demo of the preliminary version of DATACROS II tool.
• In the last session the participants discussed the implementation plan, reviewing the roadmap to the completion of the tool and gathering feedbacks on the timing and strategy of the plan.

On February 23, the kick-off meeting of project DATACROS II took place online, due to COVID-19 pandemic. DATACROS II is a EU-funded Project (GA 101038736 — ISFP-2020-AG-CORRUPT), with duration 24 months (02/2022 – 01/2024). The project’s consortium is composed of 17 partners from 7 different EU countries (Italy, Romania, Spain, France, Belgium, Lithuania, Czech Republic), and it also involves international organisations and global networks, such as Europol and the Network of Corruption Prevention Authorities (NCPA). The aim of the project is to empower a tool to detect anomalies in firms’ ownership structure that can flag high risks of money laundering, collusion, and corruption in the European single market.

The aim of the meeting was to:

• Present an overview of DATACROS II objectives and goals
• Introduce the Consortium members, and collect broad expectations
• Discuss project core activities and Work Packages
• Present Communication and dissemination strategy