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The unwilling entity problem

calendar_today April 23, 2026 person OpenCorporates Communications domain open-corporates

Part 9 in a series on the fundamentals of legal entity identity data. Before we can ask what good legal-entity identification has to do in the face of bad-actor use, we have to ask why legal entities are so useful to them in the first place. And that means asking: why are legal entities so attractive to those who want to move money, evade sanctions, launder proceeds, or sit out of reach of the law?

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