OCCRP Aleph

OCCRP Aleph is an integrated data source (a Module) in UserSearch. It draws on the OCCRP Aleph investigative dataset, a research archive maintained by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, and in UserSearch it is scoped to Russia-related court and investigative records. In your results it is flagged as the Russia court source.

Use it when you want to check a name against Russia-scoped court and investigative records as part of an OSINT search.

What it returns

For a subject you look up, OCCRP Aleph returns matching entries from its investigative archive — court and public-record material connected to the Russia jurisdiction. Each result points to a document or record within the Aleph dataset.

Draft — data-source behaviour awaiting confirmation

The following specifics about OCCRP Aleph’s behaviour inside UserSearch are not yet confirmed and should be treated as draft:

• The exact fields returned per record and how they are presented in the results table.
• Coverage of the dataset (which document collections are included) and how current the index is (freshness).
• Whether “Russia” describes the jurisdiction of the underlying data or the provider’s scoping of it — confirm this reflects the jurisdiction of the records, not the provider location.
• Any redaction or rate-limiting rules that apply to this Module specifically.

What is solid: UserSearch integrates OCCRP Aleph, it is a passive OSINT source (no interaction with the target), and it appears under the Court search type described below.

Where it appears in UserSearch

OCCRP Aleph powers this search type:

• Court — as the Russia-scoped court and investigative Module, alongside the other jurisdiction-specific court sources.

Because it takes a name or subject as input, you will typically reach it after choosing the Court search type and selecting the Russia (OCCRP Aleph) source. When it runs as part of a broader search, the Data Source column in your results attributes each row to OCCRP Aleph.

How to access it

1. Start a search and choose the Court search type.
2. Enter the name or subject you want to check.
3. Select the OCCRP Aleph Module (the Russia court source).
4. Review the returned records in the results table.

Official site

Data source: aleph.occrp.org

Reliability

Draft — reliability note

OCCRP Aleph is a passive investigative archive: it reports what has already been indexed into the Aleph dataset rather than probing the target, and its records are scoped to Russia-related court and investigative material. Absence of a result does not prove no record exists — only that no indexed document matched. Dataset coverage and index freshness for this Module are not yet confirmed and should not be quoted as precise figures.

Verified against UserSearch v2.0.20