Applying Big Data Technologies to Detect Cases of Money Laundering and Counter Financing of Terrorism

The paper suggests a technique that allows to automate schemes that generates new criminal cases for money laundering and counter financing of terrorism (ML/CFT), which are based on ML/CFT typologies but do not appear as their exact copies. This feature hinders an automated system from making a decision about their exact coincidence or its absence while comparing case objects and links among them and links in ML/CFT typologies. Possibilities and advantages of application of Big Data for financial investigation data analysis and processing are also explored. The visualization of ML/CFT typologies with the use of graphs is considered. The article proposes a technique for generating variants of typologies (for example, "Peso" typology, "commission scheme") based on cases built on typologies. A program for implementation and verification of this technique was written and successfully tested on case graphs built on typologies.