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The Trouble With the Offshore Leaks How a Graph-Based Test of 54 FCPA Defendants Shows the ICIJ Archive Cannot Support the Comparisons It Is Used For
United States

The Trouble With the Offshore Leaks How a Graph-Based Test of 54 FCPA Defendants Shows the ICIJ Archive Cannot Support the Comparisons It Is Used For

Methodological notice · read before proceeding This is an analytical report prepared for pre-publication peer review. It draws on three sources of publicly available records: the SEC’s FCPA enforcement history, the ICIJ Offshore Leaks archive (Panama Papers, Bahamas Leaks, Offshore Leaks, Paradise Papers, Pandora Papers), and the UK Companies
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What a Co-occurrence Graph Found When It Compared 7,132 Russian Prosecutions to 12,264 Chinese Political Prisoner Records
Russia

What a Co-occurrence Graph Found When It Compared 7,132 Russian Prosecutions to 12,264 Chinese Political Prisoner Records

Trace Origin LLC · Comparative Structural Analysis · Revised 12,264 Chinese records · 7,132 Russian records · 4 methods reported Two prosecution datasets return similar modularity scores, but their graphs are built differently. Russia and China have different Criminal Codes, different languages, and different modern legal traditions. They share Soviet institutional influence,
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What a Knowledge Graph Found Across Five Authoritarian Systems, One Million Soviet Records, and the Six Categories of Political Prosecution That Keep Coming Back
Russia

What a Knowledge Graph Found Across Five Authoritarian Systems, One Million Soviet Records, and the Six Categories of Political Prosecution That Keep Coming Back

Trace Origin LLC · Comparative Analysis Legal note. This report is a structural analysis of publicly available datasets. It documents patterns in charge co-occurrence, not individual culpability. No individual or entity is accused of any crime. SKOS charge-to-ICCPR mappings and Soviet-to-modern article equivalences are analyst judgments,
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What a Knowledge Graph Found in 31,824 Myanmar Detention Records: A Civilian Legal System Being Replaced by a Military One
Southeast Asia Featured

What a Knowledge Graph Found in 31,824 Myanmar Detention Records: A Civilian Legal System Being Replaced by a Military One

Eric BrattinReport · Aug 2026 · 31,824 detentions (AAPP) A report from the record · Myanmar political detentions Two systems. One is replacing the other. On February 1, 2021, the Tatmadaw seized power and began arresting elected officials, journalists, and civil society leaders under Penal Code Section 505A, a colonial-era provision
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