Tuesday, November 12, 2024

COINTED -OPTIOMENT Case – A Pilot Project For Crime Visualization

Spread financial intelligence

FinTelegram has investigated and reported many cases and schemes in the online investment area since its inception early 2018. COINTED – OPTIOMENT is just one of them. Thanks to many supporters, we have conquered our place in the realm of international investigative media scene within just a few months. This is an inspiration to further our development. In this respect, we are currently working intensively on expanding our network. This also includes other investigative projects such as OpenCorporate or the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP).

The Cybercrime Complexity

By connecting to the OCCRP, we have also gained access to the visualization tool for investigative journalists which is in beta. With this tool, we are currently testing the visualization of cybercrime project. We started with the project COINTEDOPTIOMENT which is currently under investigation of public prosecutor’s offices in Austria and Switzerland. This is only a very first [beta] approach, which we also use to visually present the complex relationships between the many companies and people in different countries to our readers. In the COINTED – OPTIOMENT case, we are currently working on a criminal complaint about the investigating authorities and are using the new interactive visualization tool: