# Recently added/updated data sources

**URL:** <https://discuss.opensanctions.org/t/recently-added-updated-data-sources/97>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Created:** [April 30, 2025, 3:46pm UTC](https://discuss.opensanctions.org/t/recently-added-updated-data-sources/97 "2025-04-30T15:46:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![jbothma](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex014/user_avatar/discuss.opensanctions.org/jbothma/32/14_2.png) [@jbothma](https://discuss.opensanctions.org/u/jbothma)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 3:46pm UTC](https://discuss.opensanctions.org/t/recently-added-updated-data-sources/97/1 "2025-04-30T15:46:22Z")

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Here are some recently released datasets in case you haven’t seen them

Sanctions:

- [US State Department Foreign Terrorist Organizations](https://www.opensanctions.org/datasets/us_state_terrorist_orgs/)
- [Japan METI Russian List](https://www.opensanctions.org/datasets/jp_meti_ru/)

PEPs:

- [Bulgarian Judiciary via asset declarations](https://www.opensanctions.org/datasets/bg_jud_declarations/)

Regulatory findings

- [Türkiye Capital Markets Board Banned List](https://www.opensanctions.org/datasets/tr_cmb_banned/)

New enrichment sources:

- [Georgian Company Registry](https://www.opensanctions.org/datasets/ext_ge_company_registry/)

Finally, the [Slovakia Public Sector Partners beneficial ownership register](https://www.opensanctions.org/datasets/sk_rpvs/) which is in the [KYB data](https://www.opensanctions.org/kyb/) which was previously based on data sourced from OpenOwnership is now based on data published by the Ministry of Justice of the Slovak Republic themselves.

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**Author:** ![pudo](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex014/user_avatar/discuss.opensanctions.org/pudo/32/1_2.png) [@pudo](https://discuss.opensanctions.org/u/pudo)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2025, 6:47am UTC](https://discuss.opensanctions.org/t/recently-added-updated-data-sources/97/2 "2025-05-02T06:47:57Z")

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One fun bit of context here: the Japanese METI Russia list (which is separate from the main METI watchlist) was added upon request by … METI 🙂

It’s one of the first times that a watchlist publishing authority has actively reached out to use to suggest the inclusion of a source. I think that’s a really amazing artifact of us doing this out in the open!

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**Author:** ![SpottyMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SpottyMoose](https://discuss.opensanctions.org/u/SpottyMoose)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2025, 11:08pm UTC](https://discuss.opensanctions.org/t/recently-added-updated-data-sources/97/3 "2025-05-14T23:08:19Z")

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Hello team, I am checking through your posts to see what subsets you cover for Sanctions lists within the Oceania region. Sorry if there is an older post which covers it but this is the first I could see which outlined enrichment sources? eg the following lists are included in enrichment?

- DFAT Consolidated List (includes both UN and autonomous sanctions)
- Russia Sanctions Register
- Designated Terrorist Entities List
- UNSC Sanctions Lists (implemented nationally)

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**Author:** ![SpottyMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SpottyMoose](https://discuss.opensanctions.org/u/SpottyMoose)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2025, 11:11pm UTC](https://discuss.opensanctions.org/t/recently-added-updated-data-sources/97/4 "2025-05-14T23:11:33Z")

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Also can I enquire as to PEP sources?

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**Author:** ![pudo](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex014/user_avatar/discuss.opensanctions.org/pudo/32/1_2.png) [@pudo](https://discuss.opensanctions.org/u/pudo)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 12:49pm UTC](https://discuss.opensanctions.org/t/recently-added-updated-data-sources/97/5 "2025-05-19T12:49:11Z")

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Hi @SpottyMoose! I think we have all the specific lists you reference included:

- DFAT: [Australian Sanctions Consolidated List - OpenSanctions](https://www.opensanctions.org/datasets/au_dfat_sanctions/)
- NZ Russia Sanctions Register: [New Zealand Russia Sanctions - OpenSanctions](https://www.opensanctions.org/datasets/nz_russia_sanctions/)
- NZ Designated Terrorist Entities: [New Zealand Designated Terrorist Entities - OpenSanctions](https://www.opensanctions.org/datasets/nz_designated_terrorists/)
- UNSC: [UN Security Council Consolidated Sanctions - OpenSanctions](https://www.opensanctions.org/datasets/un_sc_sanctions/)

And you can see an overview of all the PEP sources we have here: [Data sources - OpenSanctions](https://www.opensanctions.org/datasets/sources/?latest=false&programs=true&scope=peps) - it’s a bit US-centric but the coverage for Oceania should be OK. Let us know if you have more questions!

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**Author:** ![SpottyMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SpottyMoose](https://discuss.opensanctions.org/u/SpottyMoose)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2025, 6:07am UTC](https://discuss.opensanctions.org/t/recently-added-updated-data-sources/97/6 "2025-05-20T06:07:58Z")

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Thank you for the speedy reply @pudo will you or could you expand to include specific PEP data bases within these regions also at some point? Or not looking to expand your review subset further at this time?

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**Author:** ![pudo](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex014/user_avatar/discuss.opensanctions.org/pudo/32/1_2.png) [@pudo](https://discuss.opensanctions.org/u/pudo)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2025, 6:12am UTC](https://discuss.opensanctions.org/t/recently-added-updated-data-sources/97/7 "2025-05-20T06:12:03Z")

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Yeah, we’re keen to expand into more local PEP databases. I think in general we envision a bit of a divide between political positions with more than ~50 holders and less than that. For example, it makes perfect sense to crawl a parliamentary website for all the members of a parliament.

But for cabinets, military leadership, SoE etc. the overhead of maintaining a full crawler to acquire data on 5 or so people has proven unproductive. So for this, we’re looking into LLM-based crawling/extraction techniques with a human in the loop for verification. That would likely be feeding into Wikidata, from where we then harvest it.

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**Author:** ![pudo](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex014/user_avatar/discuss.opensanctions.org/pudo/32/1_2.png) [@pudo](https://discuss.opensanctions.org/u/pudo)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2025, 6:17am UTC](https://discuss.opensanctions.org/t/recently-added-updated-data-sources/97/8 "2025-05-20T06:17:04Z")

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Oh, on a more practical note: we’re storing our planning/source ideas here - [GitHub · Where software is built](https://github.com/opensanctions/crawler-planning/issues)
