A businessman with ties to Chinese military contractors was among the overseas investors who acquired stakes in SpaceX before its IPO made Elon Musk the first trillionaire.
An entity linked to the Qatari royal family also took a stake.
Don't look now, but Republicans are trying to dismantle the greatest anti-kleptocracy tool the US has developed in decades: the US's new shell company registry.
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“If you take the deal, you’re going to be exploited. If you don’t take it, you’re going to die,” said attorney Frank Ssekamwa about the U.S. demand to access the health data of millions of Ugandans. “It’s the essence of digital colonialism.”
Europe suffers under record heatwave as temperatures forecast to reach 44C
#climatecrisis
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One previously unreported SpaceX investor has ties to Chinese military contractors. The information was revealed only after ProPublica went to court to obtain it.
Rail services, schools and sports events hit, with deaths of three elderly people in France partly blamed on intense heat
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The United States is requiring access to health data as part of lifesaving aid deals with African countries. The U.S. says the data will be aggregated and anonymized, but privacy experts fear the info...
OpenCheck focuses on providing a live snapshot of what information from multiple sources shows about an entity and - where data is available - the people connected to that entity.
But the data provided by GLEIF and Companies House also has rich historical information.
This allows OpenCheck to build a timeline of events such as changes in ownership, legal form or address which may be notable when people are conducting customer due diligence checks
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Latest OECD report on Bermuda says more work needs to be done on beneficial ownership information for companies/trusts - but findings predate a number of reforms with enforcement of Beneficial Ownership Act 2025 due to start in July 2026
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This timeline feature can be turned on for any future data sources which provide robust access to historical ownership or control data
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Latest feature in OpenCheck: timeline of notable changes relating to a company, powered by open data from the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation and Companies House
Check out example of how the ownership of Morrison's supermarket chain has changed opencheck.world?lei=213800IN...
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