Known Associates Search

Clearvett's highly unique Known Associates tool shows who a person really does business with. Search by name and date of birth, and Clearvett finds every UK company they are or have been a director of, then lists the other directors and owners alongside them. Where a company's ownership leads overseas, Clearvett follows the chain through the company registers of various overseas company registers and brings back the directors of those foreign companies too. These links stay hidden in a standard search, and they can expose nominee arrangements, shared networks and connections to higher-risk jurisdictions.

The tool also finds co-defendants: people who were charged, convicted or sentenced in the same criminal case as your subject. Any associate can be screened against sanctions, PEP, AML and law enforcement data at the click of a button, added to your PDF report or placed under ongoing monitoring. If nobody is found, Clearvett states "No Known Associates Found" on screen and in the report, so you have a clear record that the check was carried out.

This makes Known Associates a natural next step after a standard screening: if your subject is clear but the people they do business with are not, you will know. Every associate found, and every check run on them, is recorded in your audited PDF report alongside the subject’s own results.