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Investigatiile asistate de computer reprezinta tehnici pe cît de eficiente pe atît de putin costisitoare. Este un domeniu în continua dezvoltare, dar care ajuta enorm finalizarea unor investigatii de amploare. Va prezentam o lista cu adrese web care pot fi folosite ca resurse de verificare si obtinere de informatii. Vom încerca sa actualizam aceasta sectiune cît mai des posibil.

Adrese la care se pot afla informatii despre companiile înregistrate în România:
www.ccir.ro
www.onrc.ro

Adresa web a Ministerului Finantelor unde pot fi cautate gratuit datele de bilant ale companiilor si asociatiilor din România:
www.mfin.ro

Adresa web unde pot fi gasite informatii despre mariile companii românesti cotate la Bursa
www.rasd.ro

Adresa la care se pot afla informatii despre companiile înregistrate în lume:
www.nexis.com - contine si o imensa baza de date referitoare la cetatenii sau rezidentii americani, la ziarele din SUA sau din lume.

O parte din baza de date creata pentru agentia americana CIA, formata din articole adunate din toata lumea si traduse în engleza (inclusiv emisiuni radio sau tv)
wnc.fedworld.gov

O pagina web care prezinta istoria si continutul multor site-uri care au fost modificate în timp
web.archive.org

Adresa de unde poate fi descarcat un motor profesionist de cautare – copernic:
www.copernic.com

Adresa de unde poate fi descarcat gratuit un soft special de criptare a emailurilor si a fisierelor calculatorului – PGP
www.pgp.com

Arhiva care contine marea majoritate a ONG-urilor active în lume:
www.idealist.org

Australian Securities & Investments Commission
Provides Australian companies’ data.
http://www.asic.gov.au

Belgium
This is the Belgian website with basic company information:
http://www.mineco.fgov.be/redir_new.asp?loc=/enterprises/crossroads_bank/home_fr.htm
In Dutch and French.

Brazilian Stock Exchange (only in Portuguese)
http://www.somativos.com.br/empresas/empresas.htm

Bulgaria
www.apis.bg
www.daxy.com
http://www.apis.bg/en/index.php
http://www.is-bg.net/frames.php
http://www.ciela.net/home_e.asp

Denmark
www.biq.dk
That too is only in Danish, and it's a paid for database, but it's possible to get one weeks free membership – without any obligations. You can search for all Danish companies - for all individuals attached to them, and you can get data back in time (like: Person XX was earlier a member of these company boards...) You can search for companies or individuals on the same address and so on. To register, go to this page: http://www.biq.dk/user/register and when you have written your email, password, first name (fornavn), Last name (Efternavn) you click on "Bestil prřveabonnement" (Order trial-subscription). You'll shortly get a mail, and that's that. It's really useful. And you won't have to cancel your subscription. It just dies after a week.

The Danish Commerce and Company Agency has a limited open database
http://www.publi-com.dk/index2.htm where you will find basic information such as name (and company aliases), address, company registration number and the date for last published account. To gain access to the whole database, you will have to pay the agency a certain fee to obtain information on e.g. accounts, board members, and host/mother companies.

Finland
For Finland, you can browse companies at the official trade registry's site:
http://www.ytj.fi/english/default.asp?path=605
The search page: http://www.ytj.fi/english/Yrit_sel2.asp?kielikoodi=3&path=605
(don't forget to specify the "company form", for example for Nokia it should be "public limited company").This database does not give you financial records. For those, you need to turn to commercial providers, either Suomen Asiakastieto, which has an English language service (online payment with Visa possible) at: http://www.asiakastieto.fi/en/index.shtml or
TietoEnator's ePortti, which is only in Finnish:
https://eportti.tietopalvelut.com/

France
In France the best site is
www.euridile.fr recently reorganized as a portal (in French only) on a lot of company info. Some is paid for but you can get a lot of data free.

Hungary
English: http://www.adatbazis.com/default.asp?lang=en
German: http://www.adatbazis.com/default.asp?lang=de

The Netherlands
The Dutch trade register is available online with an English language interface on:
http://www.handelsregister.nl/sectie/sectie.asp?sectieID=102 Most of the information has to be paid for.

New Zealand
www.companies.govt.nz It is mostly free and only in English.

Norway
http://www.brreg.no/english/

Romania
http://recom.onrc.ro/accesare_.htm Basic information is free of charge.

Serbia
http://www.pks.co.yu/pksen/servlet/XMLProcesor?i_sys=pksen&i_xml=a5000&i_xsl=s5000

South Africa
In South Africa company records may be officially obtained via the Registrar of Companies which falls under the Dept of Trade and Industry.
Their website is: www.cipro.gov.za
Privately, records can be scrutinised electronically (although not always as updated) via www.legalcity.co.za (you will be required to pay a certain amount which would give you access to South African records, also deeds (property in some cases).
Another suggestion from South Africa would be the local Lexis-Nexis affiliate www.DeedSearch.co.za which gives access to local property deeds & mortgages, the SA company registrar, criminal records, vehicle registration info, drivers' license databases, credit reference info, birth & death certificates, educational qualifications, employment records, & a range of other public databases.

Switzerland
https://www.shab.ch/shabforms/servlet/forms/SearchView?lg=EN&TYPE=HR
The Swiss Commercial Register offers free company data for the last two years. Data older than these is paid for.
There is an easier way to cross check quickly and freely our company registries at www.zefix.admin.ch
This website is updated by the ministry of police and justice in English, French, German and Italian. You can research by canton or cities, or name of companies. There are the usual indications by company names, holders, shareholders, capital, etc...If you need more details on companies, you may order a full extract of the registry, stamped, from the cantons and there is a contact address.

The United Kingdom
http://www.companieshouse.co.uk/

The United States
The first place in the States I would go is the US
Securities and Exchange Commission's online database, Edgar at
http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml
Publicly traded corporations must file regular, detailed reports that include data on finances, stock, lawsuits, and more. The 10K reports are particularly useful, although they can be long and
conffusing documents.
www.edgaronline.com
It allows you to search for people in SEC documents (much easier than going through each company filing at SEC's EDGAR database) if you want to track down a specific individual. EdgarOnline also allows you to choose how you want to view the SEC filings, i.e. the original filing, word file, pdf, excel (which makes incorporating the numbers in a database so much easier).
http://www.nass.org
It is the National Association of Secretaries of State, which links to the data for all 50 states. Do a search, and it will ask you which state i.e. New York, California, etc. You will be directed to the search page for the state you select, and you can search by entity name, registered agent, or corporate ID number. It is a free service to use. Some states are easier to use than others, and some have better info than others, because in the US, each state has its own laws for corporations concerning registration with the secretary of state and filling data with the SoS office. Hope this helps. Another hint: Arkansas and Delaware have some interesting companies, often with many eastern European connections.

Ukraine
www.smida.gov.ua
Available in Ukrainian language only, but an English speaking journalist in Ukraine named Roman Olearchyk will be glad to help when time is available or could recommend others who could help do the search (romchuk@gmail.com)

OTHER DATABASES
The European Business Register
http://www.ebr.org/ You have to pay (varies from country to country), but you'll get access to 14 countries.
Also, don’t forget about the world’s stock exchanges which can provide valuable data on listed companies. This is a yahoo compiled directory of stock exchanges:
http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Business_to_Business/Financial_Services/Exchanges/Stock_Exchanges/

LEXIS-NEXIS
http://www.lexisnexis.com/uk/business

OTHER USEFUL ON-LINE TOOLS

USEFUL SOFTWARE:

DC++ is a computer program that connects computers all around the world and facilitates data exchanges. Can be useful when investigating cyber-crime.
http://dcplusplus.sourceforge.net/

IP and WEB ADDRESS CHECK:

The following websites can be used in order to find out who owns a website and for tracking down IPs
http://allwhois.com/
http://www.ripe.net/whois
http://remote.12dt.com/rns/

DECLASSIFIED INFORMATION CIA
www.foia.cia.gov
The CIA has established this site to provide the public with an overview of access to CIA information, including electronic access to previously released documents.

ON-LINE TRANSLATION
These web-sites might come in handy when we need to read documents in foreign languages
http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr
http://www.freetranslation.com/
The following one is helpful with translations from Arabic:
tarjim.ajeeb.com/ajeeb/default.asp?lang=1

US GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS
http://vsearch2.eps.gov/servlet/SearchServlet
Military and Civil contracts which are awarded by the US Government are searchable by using this web site

TERRORISM, FINANCIAL FRAUD, WANTED CRIMINALS
http://www.treas.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac
http://www.ustreas.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/sdn/
http://chaos.fedworld.gov/bxa/prohib.html

SEARCH ENGINES
www.msn.com
www.gigablast.com
www.ixquick.com
www.teoma.com
www.alltheweb.com
www.hotbot.com
www.a9.com
www.live.com
http://searchenginewatch.com
The latter provides data and ratings on search engines

THE INTERNET AS AN ARCHIVE
http://www.waybackmachine.org/
This is a very important tool when it comes to checking web sites which are not on-line anymore or to check previous stages of a web site. It stores web sites in different stages of their development.

ENCRYPTION SOFTWARE
http://www.pgpi.org/cgi/download.cgi?filename=PGPFW703.zip
PGP, Pretty Good Privacy, encrypts files and documents on your hard-disk and can be used for e-mail communications as well.
http://www.scramdisk.clara.net/
Encrypts your hard-drives

OTHER DATABASES AND USEFUL WEBSITES

http://wnc.dialog.com/
Database which contains collections of articles (from media outlets not covered by Lexis-Nexis) translated into English. Articles from all over the world (mainly on intelligence, companies, criminal stuff) are searchable here. Requires subscription.

The Foreign Broadcast Information Service of the Central Intelligence Agency exemplifies national intelligence at its best, informing both senior policy makers and the nation as a whole with its daily collection, translation, and publication of thousands of foreign media reports. (Portions of the FBIS product are available to the public by subscription to World News Connection.)

NOT-FOR-PROFITS/FOUNDATIONS
www.guidestar.org
Data about NGO’s established in the US. Provides comprehensive financial data. Requires registration. Free.
www.defenselink.mil
A Pentagon searchable contracts database. Data about companies involved in Pentagon contracts all over the world. Reporters can search for companies involved abroad.

HUMAN RIGHTS
www.hrw.org
Human Rights Watch is the largest human rights organization. It conducts investigations into human rights abuses all over the world.
www.amnesty.org
www.oneworld.net

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION
www.freedominfo.org
This website points out to Freedom of Information laws all around the globe

INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS NETWORKS
www.globalinvestigativejournalism.org