SKILL / Business & Risk
Plans: Pro & AgencySanctions Ownership Exposure
Trace the ownership and control relationships that sources attribute to sanctions and risk-screening candidates, within a bounded search.
Sanctions Ownership Exposure answers the question of how a subject connects through ownership and control to parties that appear in sanctions and risk records. Starting from the subject and its risk-screening candidates, Nexus traces the ownership and control relationships that the sources attribute, within a bounded number of steps, and returns each relationship with the information needed to judge it.
What you get
Source-attributed ownership and control links around risk-screening candidates, with stated percentages and gaps.
Using Sanctions Ownership Exposure in an investigation
Each relationship shows who owns or controls whom, the percentage where the source states one, the source record and its date. A stated percentage is reported as the source states it: Nexus does not add holdings together or decide whether a legal ownership threshold is met, because those rules depend on the regime and the jurisdiction. Where the trace stops, the boundary is stated, so the investigator can see what was not examined.
Results attach to the case as findings and can be added to the relationship graph, where every link keeps its source. Sanctions Ownership Exposure pairs with Sanctions, PEP and Risk Screening and EU Sanctions Measures for the designations themselves, with UK Company Registry and Offshore Structure Research for the corporate records around a structure, and with Vessel Sanctions Screening for vessel owners. The outcome exports to a PDF report with the chain of custody preserved.
Example objectives
Run the Skill directly, or describe the objective in your own words — these are the kinds of questions it is built to answer.
Ask Nexus
“Which ownership or control links connect this company to the sanctions candidates from our screen?”
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“Who does the source say owns this candidate, and what percentage does it state?”
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“Where did the ownership trace stop, and which parts of the structure remain unexamined?”
How Sanctions Ownership Exposure fits the investigation
A Skill is one move inside a case. The findings stay in the case file, where the evidence behind them can be checked, graphed and reported.
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Choose or describe
Pick the Skill from the Skill Library, or describe the objective in your own words and let Nexus work out which Skills fit the question.
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Review the evidence
Open the evidence record behind any finding and read the original public source before you rely on what it says.
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Add to the case graph
Promote the people, organizations and identifiers you accept into the case relationship graph, straight from their evidence records.
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Brief and report
Turn the case into a BLUF situation brief and, on Pro and Agency, into a court-ready PDF report with chain of custody.
Evidence before conclusions
What Sanctions Ownership Exposure cannot establish
Nexus keeps supported findings, possible matches, contradictions and information gaps apart instead of blending them into one narrative. These are the boundaries Sanctions Ownership Exposure states up front.
- The trace is bounded and may be incomplete. Relationships beyond its limit, or missing from the sources, are not examined, and the boundary is stated in the result.
- A stated percentage does not on its own establish legal blocking or aggregated ownership. Nexus reports what the source says; the investigator applies the rules of the relevant sanctions regime.
- Ownership and control change over time. Each link carries the date of its source record and may not reflect the current structure.
Best for
Teams that reach for Sanctions Ownership Exposure most often.
Related OSINT concepts
The vocabulary this Skill works in, defined in the glossary.
Related Skills
Skills investigators commonly run next, in the same case.
Frequently asked questions
What does Sanctions Ownership Exposure return?
Sanctions Ownership Exposure returns the ownership and control relationships that sources attribute to a subject and its risk-screening candidates, traced within a bounded number of steps. Each relationship shows its direction, the percentage where the source states one, the source record and its date, and the result states where the trace stopped.
Does Sanctions Ownership Exposure tell me whether a company is blocked?
Sanctions Ownership Exposure does not decide whether a company is blocked. Ownership rules differ between sanctions regimes, and a percentage in a source record does not on its own establish legal blocking or aggregated ownership. Nexus reports each relationship as the source states it, and the investigator applies the rules of the relevant regime to the evidence.
How complete is the ownership picture?
The ownership picture from Sanctions Ownership Exposure is as complete as the sources and the bounded trace allow. Relationships beyond the trace limit or missing from the sources are not examined, and Nexus states that boundary in the result. For layered or offshore structures, add Offshore Structure Research and the registry Skills to widen the evidence.
Which Nexus plan includes Sanctions Ownership Exposure?
Sanctions Ownership Exposure is included in the Skill Library on the Pro and Agency plans. Pro unlocks 43 of the 47 investigative Skills, including Sanctions Ownership Exposure and the other business, financial and risk Skills, and Agency includes all 47.