Sanctioning bodies, regulators, investigators and professional services firms have all shared lists of red flags that companies can use while conducting due diligence to identify potential customers or transactions of concern. These are valuable when conducting general risk analyses, but they often produce large numbers of false positives. Banks, in particular, report that they may have thousands or even millions of false positives if they use these general red flags for a screening system.

Our typologies are different. We are not trying to share all of the ways people evade sanctions. We are sharing the characteristics of a single network or type of evasion/circumvention actor. The searches we suggest should result in a manageable number of responsive hits - a few, maybe dozens. Not millions.

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