Operation Greece | GFIA Investigation Lab
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Operation Greece · Pilot 001

Follow the paperwork and the instructions that caused the money to move.

Follow the money. Understand the people. Reconstruct the operation.

Operation Greece was an authorised undercover operation by Keith Bulfin, founder of GFIA, involving a reported US$9 million international financial arrangement. It is the first case used to demonstrate the GFIA Investigation Lab method: how an investigator starting from the outside can work from incomplete information towards a defensible, evidence-linked reconstruction.

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Workflow steps
From signup to a signed investigative report
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Case roles
Lead Investigator, Authorised Investigator, Analyst, Case Administrator
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Confidence levels
Every item states how much we actually know
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Outputs
Case file to final report, each linked to its sources
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Invented facts
Unknown dates, names and amounts stay unknown
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The method

Assemble the jigsaw from the evidence

Keith Bulfin knew the Operation Greece structures from the inside. An outside investigator does not. The platform is designed to help them find each piece, establish which pieces connect, and keep fact apart from recollection and inference.

The jigsaw method, in order
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Start with any record

A suspicious transaction, a company record, a bank account, an interview or intelligence from another agency.

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The system organises it

Placed on the chronology, people and entities extracted, possible relationships proposed.

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AI asks

Investigative questions, inconsistencies and the evidence that is missing.

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The investigator verifies

Only a person decides which connections are supported.

The question the Investigation Lab is designed to answer

If a criminal organisation understands how existing detection systems operate, can our technology help an investigator reconstruct the underlying operation and identify what those systems may have missed?

Not information collection

Footprint tools gather data fast. The Investigation Lab interprets it. No digital link does not mean no financial link.

Not due diligence reporting

Knowing who the customer is does not explain the purpose of a complex transaction.

Not pattern matching alone

Known patterns miss new schemes. The method follows behaviour, decisions and paperwork.

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Three modules, together

One continuous investigation, not three reports

Operation Greece is the demonstration of how the platform moves beyond detecting a suspicious transaction to reconstructing the financial operation, identifying the people involved, understanding the structures they used and recommending the next investigative steps. Transaction Flows, Ownership and Control, and Recurrence Analysis are not independent outputs: each one informs and corrects the other two as the reconstruction builds.

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Transaction Flows

Where the money moved: the two trails through London, Luxembourg and into Mexico.

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Ownership and Control

Who the registry names, and who actually directed the Guernsey and Gibraltar structures.

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Recurrence Analysis

Whether the same entities, nominees and accounts appear again, beyond this one transaction.

For the mechanics behind each module, the twelve-step workflow and the role-based permissions that govern them, see How it works.

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Transaction Flows

Two trails, one operation

Operation Greece in the pilot's build order: France, Gibraltar and Guernsey first, then the London and Luxembourg accounts, then the movement of funds into Mexico. Fees paid from London link the structures on paper.

First-hand recollectionUncertain
Legal ownership and controlSelect any point to inspect itFinancial movementintended to holdinstructions passed downassociatedassociatedUS$9m reportedAmount to verifyUS$8m loan reportedAbout US$7.7mpaid feesauthorised signatoryFrench companyLyon shell company?Gibraltar holdingLegal form to verifyGuernsey ANominee directorsGuernsey BNominee directorsEl SalvadorReported originLondon accountGuernsey ALuxembourg accountGuernsey BMexican companyAbout US$300k retainedRestaurant interestsMexicoLawyers' feesLyon, Gibraltar, GuernseyIndependent directorSigns chequesInspectorEach point shows its source, its confidence level and the evidence still needed.French company, LyonFormed by a Lyon lawyer within 24 hours. Registered shareholder: a retired schoolteacher in Switzerland.Legal owner is not the controller. Needed: incorporation papers, shareholder register, instructions, payments.Gibraltar holding arrangementSet up by a Gibraltar lawyer recommended through a Zurich contact. Nominee directors.Legal form not confirmed. Needed: trust deed or constitution, appointment and beneficial ownership records.Guernsey AArranged by a Guernsey legal team recommended through a London contact. Separate nominee directors.Nominees paid about US$1,000 a year. Do not infer beneficial entitlement.Guernsey BSecond Guernsey structure with its own nominee directors. Instructions came through the Gibraltar level.Needed: administration agreements and correspondence showing who gave instructions.El Salvador, reported originFunds represented as coming from sugar-related business.It proves the claim was made, not where the money came from. Needed: source of funds records.London account (Guernsey A)Received the funds and paid the professional fees for the structures.Fee payments are documentary links between entities that otherwise look unrelated.Luxembourg account (Guernsey B)Received funds from the London account. Made the reported loan to Mexico.Amount moved from London is not recorded. Needed: bank statements and transfer records.Mexican companyReported US$8m loan received. About US$300k retained.Needed: loan agreement, board resolutions, bank statements, signing mandates.Restaurant interestsAbout US$7.7m allocated to acquiring interests in restaurants.Needed: share purchase documents and ownership records.Lawyers' feesPaid from the London account to the lawyers in Lyon, Gibraltar and Guernsey.Follow the paperwork: payee details and invoices connect the structures on paper.Independent directorHad authority to sign cheques and issue instructions for the Mexican company.Formal authority. Whether this person made the decisions is a separate question.

Historical recollections, not a verified transaction map. Do not infer that nominees had beneficial entitlement.

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Ownership and Control

Legal ownership is not control

A registry can name a retired schoolteacher as the shareholder. It cannot say who directed the company. Switch views to see the difference.

Registry viewInvestigator viewSwitch views to see what each could concludeWhat a registry search showsR1French company, LyonR2Registered shareholder: retired schoolteacherR3Shareholder resides in SwitzerlandR4No substantive operating businessWhat the investigator must establishQ1Introduced to the Lyon lawyer by a Paris contactQ2Asked by phone to form the company in 24 hoursQ3Lawyer paid from a London accountQ4Company meant to hold the Gibraltar arrangementConclusionThe schoolteacher owns the company.Legal owner on paper. Who directed it must be proven.
Formal legal authority

What the paperwork says. Recorded exactly as found.

Registered shareholderDirectorNominee directorTrusteeSettlorBeneficiary as recordedAuthorised signatoryOwnsFormed
Effective control

Who actually made the decisions or benefited. Needs its own evidence.

DirectedInstructedActed on behalf ofBenefited fromExercised controlIntroducedPaid fees to
Rule

The system never turns a legal link into a control link. Not the database, not the AI, not the report.

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Recurrence Analysis

Look for what recurs

Structures, nominees and accounts were not necessarily used once. Reconstructing only the US$9 million may miss the same pieces appearing elsewhere.

Demonstration flow, in order
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Start with one record

A company record or account

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Find a shared entity or account

The same nominee, intermediary or account

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Request supporting evidence

What would confirm the link

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Compare other cases

Within the organisation, with permission

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Verify links

A person decides

Case 001Operation GreeceGuernsey A nomineeLondon accountLyon lawyerCase 002Example dataTrading companyGuernsey A nomineeLondon accountPossible recurrence ?Shown for review. Nothing is linked automatically.

The wider recollection: separate and uncorroborated

Reported recurring corporate and banking links. Not a map of verified payment routes, and not part of the US$9 million transaction. Each needs its own investigation.

Europe

London, Milan, Geneva, Brussels, Amsterdam, Lisbon, Madrid, Frankfurt, Berlin

Americas

Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Mexico, United States

Africa

Morocco, South Africa

Middle East

Dubai, Bahrain

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What to examine next

The questions this reconstruction should answer

The platform's purpose is not only to show what moved. It is to identify the questions an investigator should ask next, and guide them towards the evidence needed to answer each one.

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Who controlled the two Guernsey companies?

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What was the relationship between those companies and the Gibraltar holding trust?

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Who authorised the transfers between London and Luxembourg?

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What was the commercial justification for the loan to the Mexican company?

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Who ultimately controlled the Mexican company and the restaurant investments?

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What documentation would be required to verify the claimed source of funds?

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Were there repeated relationships, transactions or intermediaries that would justify further examination?

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Evidence and demonstration data

Four kinds of statement, kept apart

This sits alongside, not instead of, the verified-to-uncertain confidence scale used throughout the platform: it marks where a statement about Operation Greece comes from, not how strongly it is held. Every synthetic record used to demonstrate the method is labelled as demonstration material and is never presented as an original historical record.

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Documented, independently verified facts

Established from records: company registries, bank statements, trust deeds and other primary documents.

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Keith Bulfin's firsthand recollections

What he observed or was told directly, undocumented until corroborated by a record.

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Constructed demonstration data

Realistic mock bank statements, company records, trust documents, loan agreements and transaction records, built to show how the method works.

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Investigative hypotheses

What the evidence suggests but does not yet establish; shown as a hypothesis until a person promotes it, with reasoning, to a conclusion.

Realistic mock records, built for this demonstration, are clearly identified internally as synthetic demonstration material, not original banking records from the historical operation. The objective is to demonstrate how the system reasons through an investigation, not to manufacture evidence.

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Outputs for this case

What Operation Greece produces

Built up progressively as Transaction Flows, Ownership and Control, and Recurrence Analysis each add to the reconstruction, and drawn together in the final report the Lead Investigator approves. For how the report is assembled across every case, see How it works.

Pilot build order
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France, Gibraltar and Guernsey

The corporate arrangements first

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London and Luxembourg accounts

Establish the relationship with each structure

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Into Mexico

The loan, the retained amount and the restaurant interests

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Move freely

Between the paperwork, the people, the instructions and the transactions

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Where we're up to

In development

Investigator entry and uploads first; approved external data sources later. Prediction comes last. Target launch December 2026, subject to technical readiness and a successful pilot evaluation.

Now
Pilot development
Next
Pilot evaluation
Target December 2026
Commercial launch
After launch
Universities and professional education
Later
Predictive pattern matching

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How it works covers the twelve-step workflow, roles and the final report. Pricing covers Beta and Standard.

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