Use Cases Crime
Investigative Journalist's Personal Graph
Icelandic Journalist, we call him "Money Laundering Investigator", is employed by Iceland's newspaper "The Mirror", one of the media partners of ICIJ. Despite the focus of this use case, The Panama Papers, however, the Paradise Papers, another investigative project is also mentioned and included in the graph in order to indicate the capability of running and handling multiple projects in parallel.
The journalist uses his personal network for such an investigation. The local (Iceland) part of his network and the global part as well, especially to share knowledge with his other journalist colleagues, members of the ICIJ general group "Journalists" (contained in the graph) and Panama Papers group "PP Journalists".
The Panama Papers Project
This graph provides a good overview of the Panama Papers case. It includes the criminal engine, Mossack Fonseca and other players with focus to Iceland. So you find Landsbanki Luxembourg closely affiliated to Wintris Inc., owned by ex premier Gunlaugsson and his wife Pálsdóttir. Background information to the case is contained in the Wikipedia widget, on the right side of this page.
Please note, the model of the Panama Papers project structure, as we did, is just for illustration and reduced to the Iceland's scope. Seen in a global context, the project may be divided in sub sections. It contains - beside the "PP Journalists" community, the following other groups:
- PP Blamed VIPs: some of them from the government, as ex premier Gunnlaugsson
- PP Blamed Organizations: one of them is Wintric Inc., as shown in Graph #4
- PP Influencers: different individuals
The core, Mossack Fonseca - Panamanian law firm and corporate service provider
Mossack Fonseca's slogan "Taxes are for poor people" says everything of ethic qualification of this company, including its business partners and corporate and individual clients.
Due to a massive leak, which contains tons of documents, such a business network was able to be identified. Once again, we simplified this network and this graph just intend to give you an idea, how to navigate such a network and how helpful it is - not only for journos - to have such a tool at the fingertips: both, for representation and for interaction purposes with including all benefits of Liferay portal system.
Wintric Inc. - a tax fraud vehicle
Wintris Inc. was Iceland's ex premier's (and his wife's) tax fraud vehicle. It veils "dirty business" with Landsbanki Iceland and its representation in Luxembourg, directly connected to Mossack Fonseca.
Exemplary: Inclusion of local authorities in manhunt
The broad manhunt includes numberless police authorities, cross over countries and down to Switzerland's region of Zurich, for example. Finally, the huge investigation network led to success. This screenshot illustrates, how to setup and display networks with Social Toolset. Of course, the graph is reduced and is focussed to Switzerland.
2016 Berlin truck attack - Wikipedia
On 19 December 2016, at 20:02 local time, the perpetrator drove the stolen truck through a Christmas market at Breitscheidplatz in the City West of Berlin, killing 11 people and injuring 56. The incident is the deadliest terrorist attack in Germany since an attack at Oktoberfest in Munich in 1980, which killed 13 people and injured 211 others.
Social Graph / Restricted Demo Mode
- Opening profile pages (individuals and organizations) has been disabled
- Works with a contextual preset
Data Digging
Get more insights by digging. Each taxonomy (e.g. "Recruitment") is now open for exploration: just click button below and you get all items within the same category. Combine graphs that way and you will dig up values never easier than before.
Adding Graphs
Add any full graph of individuals or organizations to the current visualization. Context menu provides adding a graph to the current view or to a separate tab view.
Using our apps
- Social Graph
- Click on a user or organization node, to get detail information.
- Menu with node actions
- Click on the menu icon ⠇ on the right side, to display the action menu.
- Right click opens context menu, select from provided actions.
- Opening another user's or organization's profile page:
- Double click on node.
- Select action from context menu.
- Click on image in the information pane.
- Social Map
- Click on location to get detail information.
- Select action from address list (on the bottom of Social Map).
- All apps: Click Help Button to get more instructions.
Terminology
- Graph: Social Graph displays a network graph containing nodes and edges being connected.
- Node: An individual, an organization, a community or a category on the graph.
- Edge: Nodes are connected by edges. An edge represents a relationship (affiliation) between two nodes. Edges may be labelled with the type of relationship (e.g. a role name for an individual, or the direction of ordination between organization units).
- Loose and tight affiliations: Edges between organizations may have a solid (=tight affiliation) or dotted (=loose affiliation) line stroke. Tight affiliations are regulary top/down hierarchical constructs while loose affiliations, known as Dotted Line, represents agile constructs with - for example - having undirected connections, or multiple parental elements. For a better understanding, we recommend to visit Social Graph's product page and the Use Case Army page, containing a video.
- Categories: Organization nodes are categorized by two levels. 1st level is the dimension (B2E, B2B or B2C), 2nd level is the subordinated category. 1st level categories are labelled with black background, while 2nd level categories are displayed with a grey background.