( ) is an international 3-year project that started in July 2022, enabled by ITEA and funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) and Enterprise Singapore.The Project | Web Crawler | Data Model & Red Flags | Company Networks | Trade Data | Expected Key Results | Contact
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The Project
Web Crawler
Example output of the web crawler searching for a set of websites about companies offering trailers
Goods are traded on the web, and thus, we
. For example, web data can help to identify vendors of potentially illicit products by their online offers and gathers and enriches data about the online presence of said vendors.The goal of ATTENTION!'s Web Crawler is to
using their online offers as well as to gather web data on these actors since several red flags and patterns of illicit trades require information not present in company databases.This includes
offered by the vendor (brands, product descriptions, prices, images), such as the (claimed) company location, and behavioral / relational data such as where potentially illicit vendors advertise or which websites are linking to theirs.Data Model & Red Flags
Company Networks
Example company network where certified retailers are marked in green and known suspicious companys are marked in red.
To
, it is relevant to understand company networks and to investigate entities that could be behind complex trade-based money laundering structures.describes companies, their attributes (e.g., revenue and address) and relations (e.g., subsidiaries).
Trade Data
Example vessel movement close to a port
Trade data is about
(example of a trade transaction: a good of category "Furniture" that is delivered from Hamburg to Singapore on May 6, 2023), and it is relevant to .By connecting trade data with vessel positions, we aim at the detection of
in global trade.Expected Key Results
- together with extensive and metadata
- models to understand and detect patterns of illicit trade activity
- MVP that will
Contact
- General Contact Information
Forum Digitale Technologien | Roadshows 2023 in Paris & Marseille: Simon Gottschalk (gottschalk@L3S.de)
ITEA PO Days in Berlin: Stefan Schestakov (schestakov@L3S.de)