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OpenRegistry - the world's first MCP and API for live company filings directly from official government registries worldwide

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An armed escort brought Daniel Kinahan to Dublin’s Special Criminal Court this month. Authorities allege that he oversaw a global narco-trafficking operation tied to a bloody gang war in Ireland that resulted in numerous killings. bit.ly/4q816KC

icij.orgAlleged cartel boss Daniel Kinahan charged in Ireland following high security extradition - ICIJKinahan was taken from Dubai to a Dublin court under armed escort and ordered to remain in prison while he awaits trial for his alleged part in running a global drug smuggling empire.

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Leaked #PandoraPapers records reveal that Giacomo Tamburello and his family, now facing prosecution, accumulated gold bars, luxury real estate and a $89 million stake in a bank with the help of unscrupulous financiers and lawyers. Read the latest:

buff.lyHow offshore firms helped a mafia-linked Italian druglord hide a $230m fortune - ICIJLeaked Pandora Papers records reveal that Giacomo Tamburello and his family, now facing prosecution, accumulated gold bars, luxury real estate and a $89 million stake in a bank with the help of…

south korea filings go deeper than most people expect: directors, shareholders, accounts, filing PDFs. handy for walking chaebol subsidiaries or checking whether a “dormant” shell actually filed during a trade dispute. https://openregistry.sophymarine.com

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The Canadian government will buy two Palantir licenses at a cost of $7.4 million each year — a continuation of a contract they say they "inadvertently" forgot to publicly disclose. Collab with my wonderful colleague @katrinaclarke.bsky.social theijf.org/article/defe...

theijf.orgDefence department to buy Palantir software for $7.4 million each yearGovernment says it ‘inadvertently omitted’ to announce contract with controversial American tech company

swiss company records get oddly granular: AGs and GmbHs often expose shareholder history alongside directors and the registered profile. makes control changes easier to walk than in some larger registers. https://openregistry.sophymarine.com

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Belgian register filings list branch addresses alongside directors, so you can spot where a firm actually operates instead of just where it incorporated. Handy for cross-border KYB work. https://openregistry.sophymarine.com

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Good morning from the Southern District of New York, where former trader Reza Zarrab faces sentencing for leading a $20 billion sanctions violations and money laundering scheme involving Iranian oil proceeds. He pleaded guilty under seal and then cooperated with U.S. authorities for nine years.

liechtenstein filings go past the nameplate stuff. director swaps and capital changes show up in the actual company records, which makes walking holding structures far less guessy. #KYB https://openregistry.sophymarine.com

canada federal corps leave a tidy paper trail: directors, PSC filings, company profile changes, all in one place. Handy when a shell company pops up in procurement paperwork or sanctions-adjacent reporting. https://openregistry.sophymarine.com

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A businessman accused of ordering the murder of the Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has gone to trial in Malta's capital. He faces complicity and criminal association charges and is the last of seven men to face trial over the assassination.

buff.lyBusinessman accused of masterminding Caruana Galizia assassination stands trial in Malta - ICIJYorgen Fenech appeared in court nearly a decade after the car-bomb killing of one of the country’s most prominent investigative journalists.

monaco filings get oddly detailed: current directors, shareholder data, historical filings, downloadable PDFs. handy for walking ownership changes through holding companies. #KYC https://openregistry.sophymarine.com

Dutch filings get oddly forensic once you start walking the history: annual accounts sit beside each submission record, so you can see when a company changed status and who filed it. #KYB https://openregistry.sophymarine.com

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A battle over whether the public has the right to know how much Austria’s public hospitals pay for the blockbuster cancer drug Keytruda is heading to the Constitutional Court, a case stemming from ICIJ’s #CancerCalculus investigation.

buff.lyMerck takes Austria’s Keytruda price transparency battle to top court as journalists fight for information - ICIJThe case stems from ICIJ’s Cancer Calculus investigation into the world's best-selling drug’s sky-high price and its global consequences.

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This is a really excellent read from @sianushka.bsky.social. For many reasons which will become clearer, 2023 was a big year for the mysterious convergence of fringe UK and Montenegrin crypto politics concentrated mostly in a small Balkan coastal town... www.opendemocracy.net/inside-refor...

opendemocracy.netInside Reform and George Cottrell’s world in MontenegroWhy are some of Britain’s most controversial Reform-linked figures all operating out of a grubby office in a town of 11,000 people in the Balkans?

taiwan’s register exposes shareholder lists alongside current directors, so you can walk ownership changes instead of guessing from stale filings. handy for cross-border KYB work. https://openregistry.sophymarine.com

hong kong keeps basic company records open: incorporation date, status, company type, registered address. handy when a cross-border KYB check starts with almost nothing. #KYC https://openregistry.sophymarine.com

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The company that made the most from the trade was Dynacom Tankers, founded by Greek shipping billionaire George Prokopiou. Dynacom made at least $915mn in revenues shipping Russian crude since July 2023, according to FT calculations. This has been an issue for a while. www.ft.com/content/d851...

ft.comGreek shipping companies made almost $4bn carrying Russian oil in past three yearsDynacom Tankers, Stealth Maritime and Onassis Group boost revenues from transporting Russian fuel under G7 price cap regime

Isle of Man company records go deeper than most people expect: profile data, filing history, then the actual documents lodged against the entity. Handy when a cross-border KYB check turns messy. https://openregistry.sophymarine.com

Iceland’s register exposes directors, shareholders, PSCs, plus the filing PDFs themselves. Makes KYB work less guessy. Ownership trails get easier once you can read the filings, not just metadata. https://openregistry.sophymarine.com

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NZ company filings often include the signed PDFs themselves. Handy when you need the exact director name on a change notice, not a database summary. #KYB https://openregistry.sophymarine.com

Australia’s register gives you live company status, incorporation dates, and current office addresses. Handy when an overseas entity turns up with three name variants in onboarding. #KYB https://openregistry.sophymarine.com

spain’s register sticks director lists, shareholders and actos inscritos right on the company file, then attaches the actual filing PDFs underneath. makes board churn easy to date. #KYB https://openregistry.sophymarine.com

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A US Senator has written to pharma giant Merck, citing ICIJ's #CancerCalculus investigation and expressing concerns about anti-competitive practices and sky-high prices of the company's flagship cancer drug Keytruda.

buff.lySenator questions Merck over patent strategy for blockbuster cancer drug Keytruda - ICIJIn a letter, Sen. Maggie Hassan cited ICIJ's Cancer Calculus investigation and expressed concerns that the pharma giant is boosting profits at the expense of patients.

ireland filings come attached to the company record, not split into a separate search. handy for KYB work when you need the incorporation docs or a status change date. https://openregistry.sophymarine.com

poland’s register gives you directors, shareholders, filing history, plus the actual filing PDFs. handy when you need to walk management changes or pull source docs for a KYB review. https://openregistry.sophymarine.com

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czech filings expose the stuff diligence teams go looking for: directors, shareholders, registered charges. handy when a cross-border holdco chain starts looking odd. #KYB https://openregistry.sophymarine.com

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finland’s register gets handy fast when you’re walking ownership changes: directors, annual accounts, plus the filing PDFs all sit on the same company record. #OSINT #KYB https://openregistry.sophymarine.com

norway company records show the core facts: company profile with legal name and status, plus current directors and shareholders. useful context when checking counterparties or tracing control. #KYB https://openregistry.sophymarine.com

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A promotional image for a padel club in Dubai shows a talented player, mid-swing and eyes locked on the ball. He’s also a key figure in the Kinahan cartel, the Irish organised crime group involved in drug trafficking, money laundering and arms smuggling. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/06...

bellingcat.comPoster Boy: Sanctioned Kinahan Cartel Lieutenant Found Playing Padel in Dubai - bellingcatA trusted lieutenant of the transnational Kinahan cartel has been found playing padel in Dubai, where he has become a poster boy for the racquet sport.

italian company records start plain. legal name and company number, then status and the registered address. handy when sanity‑checking a supplier or starting to walk a corporate group. https://openregistry.sophymarine.com

uk company records list directors, persons with significant control, charge registrations, and the full filing history with downloadable PDFs. useful when tracing control or lender security. #KYB #OSINT https://openregistry.sophymarine.com

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Fidelity opened an account for Jeffrey Epstein in mid-April 2019, and it received over $5 million by the time the firm apparently moved to close it in late May of that year, several weeks before Epstein’s arrest on sex trafficking charges, documents show.

buff.lyFidelity opened account for Epstein, even as outrage grew - ICIJAsset manager Fidelity moved millions for company owned by disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein just weeks before his 2019 arrest, documents reveal.

in the french company register, a profile shows the legal form and the people currently listed as directors. useful when checking who actually runs a société. https://openregistry.sophymarine.com

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This article cites excellent research by The Insider (original in Russian). From March 2022 to February 2024, Russian importers registered at least 15,337 Western firearms. Beretta Holding’s CEO in 2022 served on the board of Russian importing company Russkiy Orel united24media.com/war-in-ukrai...

united24media.comHow Italian Beretta Firearms Allegedly Continue to Reach Russia Despite SanctionsBeretta Holding allegedly supplied over 6,000 European firearms to Russia, including Benelli shotguns and Sako rifles, bypassing sanctions.

japanese company filings often ship the evidence with them. director and shareholder lists sit beside the company profile, and the register serves the original PDFs. handy for audit trails. https://openregistry.sophymarine.com

malaysia’s company profile extract is just one page. core facts on the firm plus its current officers. a quick first stop when you need to sanity‑check a business. https://openregistry.sophymarine.com