Data Cleaning and Harvesting
During investigations, you will often find documents in different formats, making data analysis difficult and progress a challenge. Learning new Excel techniques for data cleaning is an essential step to transform this "chaos" into a clear and organized format. Along with the data harvesting techniques you will learn in this course, you will be able to quickly identify suspicious transactions that might indicate illicit activity.
Take your skills to the next level by learning how to:
- Prepare financial documents for data analysis
- Apply Excel functions to fix formatting errors
- Identify additional sources of financial data
- Use OCR software to digitise hard copies and export data
- Scrape data from websites.
This course is self-paced. You can start, take breaks, and continue at any time. It is structured in sessions that build on each other, so we recommend you start with Session 1.After completing the course, you will be eligible for a certificate of completion.
Note: If you are new to analysing financial data, we recommend you start with our course on Financial Analysis using Excel
Open-source Intelligence
Open-source intelligence (OSINT) is a central element of most corruption and money laundering investigations. The information and evidence you can gather from publicly available sources can make the difference between a successful investigation and a dead end. Through a simulated investigation, this course will help you learn the basics of how to prepare, conduct and report an OSINT undertaking.
- Introduction to OSINT and the intelligence cycle;
- Preparing your research environment;
- Searching the open web and deep web databases;
- Analysing domain records to find information about websites;
- Using cached and archived records to retrieve past versions of websites;
- Gathering information from social media sites;
- Exploiting the visual and meta information of images;
- Searching online communities, investigating dark web pages and bitcoin;
- Preparing a report of an OSINT investigation.
During the course you immerse yourself in a simulated investigation into the fishing vessel FV Malaga and its owner, the organisation Mossaman Commodities. You follow open-source leads about the misuse of company structures that reveal indicators of illegal fishing and the smuggling of endangered animal parts.
The course was developed by our eLearning team in collaboration with subject matter experts from ICAR and our Green Corruption programme, with primary funding from PMI Impact. Languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Latvian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Albanian, Ukrainian.
International Cooperation and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters
For most investigators, Excel is the tool of choice to analyse financial information. In thiscourse, you will useExcel to organise and analyse large volumes of data such as banking records, invoices, phonerecords and commercialtransactions.
- Protect your data from accidental changes
- Use simple functions to find transactions that stand out
- Unlock the power of filters to find exactly the data you are searching for
- Use subtotals to summarise your financial data instantly
- Create interactive summaries using PivotTables
You will also gain insight into typical patterns of illegal use of bank accounts, allowing you tofurther explorepossibilities to analyse financial data.
This course is self-paced. You can start, take breaks and continue at any time. It is structuredin sessions thatbuild on each other, so we recommend you start with Session 1. After successfully completing thecourse, you will beeligible for a certificate of completion Languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Latvian , Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Serbian, Albanian, Romanian.
Оперативный анализ
Analysing suspicious transactions for actitiesrelated to money laundering or the financing of terrorism is a corefunction of Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs).
In this course, you will learn to assess the risk of suspicious activity and analyse suspicious transaction reports(STRs).
This course was developed in co-operation with the Egmont Group ofFIUs and is based on the content of the Egmont Group’s on-site TacticalAnalysis training. It is aimed primarily at FIU analysts, but is usefulfor anyone analysing evidence as part of a financial investigation.
- Understand the core responsibilities of an FIU;
- Differentiate between information and intelligence;
- Assess the risk of suspicious activity;
- Conduct an analysis of an STR, including all steps of theintelligence cycle: creating a collection plan and hypothesis,collecting, analysing and evaluating information, and creating anddisseminating a report of your findings;
This course is self-paced. You can start, take breaks and continue atany time. It is structured in sessions that build on each other, so werecommend you start with Session 1. After successfully completing thecourse, you will be eligible for a certificate of completion.
Languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Ukrainian, Bulgarian.
Financial Analysis using Excel
For most investigators, Excel is the tool of choice to analyse financial information. In this course, you will use Excel to organise and analyse large volumes of data such as banking records, invoices, phone records and commercial transactions.
- Protect your data from accidental changes
- Use simple functions to find transactions that stand out
- Unlock the power of filters to find exactly the data you are searching for
- Use subtotals to summarise your financial data instantly
- Create interactive summaries using PivotTables
You will also gain insight into typical patterns of illegal use of bank accounts, allowing you to further explore possibilities to analyse financial data.
This course is self-paced. You can start, take breaks and continue at any time. It is structured in sessions that build on each other, so we recommend you start with Session 1. After successfully completing the course, you will be eligible for a certificate of completion. Languages: English, Ukrainian, Portuguese, Albanian, Serbian, Spanish, Ukrainian, Bulgarian.- Trainer: Armen Oganesean
Visualise Cases and Flows of Money
Corruption and money laundering investigations often involve complex structures of persons, companies and otherentities. This is challenging to present to a supervisor or colleagues, or even in a courtroom. A graph or diagramdepicting the relationships between entities in the case and the flows of money between them can make it easier forothers to understand. In this course you will use the free software yEd software.
- Create clear and interpretable graph to present entities in a case you are investigating
- Visualise meaningful connections between these entities
- Depict the entities with custom pictures
- Use layout functions to make your graph ready for analysing in a few clicks
- Use Excel data to create graphs that make financial flows comprehensible
- Add meaningful details, such as thicker connection lines to represent greater amounts of money
- Make your graph versatile, for example by exporting it to PowerPoint
This course is self-paced. You can start, take breaks and continue at any time. It is structured in sessions thatbuild on each other, so we recommend you start with Session 1. After successfully completing the course, you will beeligible for a certificate of completion. Languages: English, Bulgarian, Ukrainian.