Follow the Money

Follow the Money is a search engine enabled by Youcontrol, a BridgeGap partner organization, on top of their YC World pooled database.

The search engine enables investigating beneficial ownership (who really owns a company), and undue corrupt influence (links between public authority holders, directly or through their proxies and businesses) by uncovering business links between companies and individuals, searching mostly in registers of commerce from the European Union, United Kingdom, Ukraine, Russia, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Belarus.

Track relevant connections between subjects using either names of individuals or businesses.

To use the search engine, you need to have login credentials that you can obtain by writing here.

 
Ex: Aeroflot, Dudaev, Jane Doe

This demo shows how you can use the search engine, including saving your favorite results for future reference.

Company search:

  • Company name (original or English version)
  • Complete name of a legal entity
  • Short name of a legal entity
  • Company phone number
  • Corporate registration email
  • Company’s website
  • Legal entity’s address of registration

Person search:

  • Full name
  • First name
  • Taxpayer number
  • Address of registration
  • Email

See here the list of the available data sources.

Within the BridgeGap project, the following databases have been added:

  1. Ukrainian State Registry (full daily updates)
  2. National Trade Register Office (Romania)
  3. Register of Companies (Cyprus)
  4. Malta Business Registry (MBR)
  5. Bulgarian Commercial Register
  6. Latvia Company Registry
  7. List of current members of the European Parliament
  8. Registered EU lobby organisations
  9. European Parliament lobby meetings
  10. European Commission lobby meetings
  11. Political party finance (Netherlands)
  12. Political party finance (Latvia)
  13. Political party finance (Italy)
  14. UK State Registry (Company House)
  15. Bulgarian Persons of Interest
  16. Russia Federal Tax Registry (EGRUL)
  17. Russia Unified State Register of Individual Entrepreneurs (EGRIP)
  18. Public Database of Domestic Politically Exposed Persons of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan (RuPEP)
  19. Russian Politically Exposed Persons (Archive 2015-2018)
  20. UA Politically Exposed Persons

The list of databases is being updated on an ongoing basis (last update January 2025)