A politically exposed person (PEP) is a person that has been entrusted with a prominent public function. PEPs include elected officials and members of government.
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A politically exposed person (PEP) is a person that has been entrusted with a prominent public function. PEPs include elected officials and members of government.
This collection contains data about politically exposed persons (PEPs) from multiple sources. We include lists of office-holders both directly from official sources like governments and also from third-party sources that have been aggregated by other organizations.
IMPORTANT: We discourage the use of this collection on its own, as it does not include some relevant information from enrichment sources. Read the FAQ item.
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| Last processed: | 2026-05-07 15:27:01 · v. 20260507152701-lpq | ||||||||||||
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Downloads contain the full set of entities contained in this dataset. You can fetch a simplified tabular form, or detailed, structured data in JSON format. Updated files will be provided once a day at the same location.
| File name | Export type | Size | |
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entities.ftm.json | FollowTheMoney entities | 870.71 MB | |
names.txt | Target names text file | 24.13 MB | |
senzing.json | Senzing entity format | 610.31 MB | |
targets.nested.json | Targets as nested JSON | 1.21 GB | |
targets.simple.csv | Targets as simplified CSV | 178.72 MB |
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You can query the data in this dataset via the application programming interface (API) endpoints below. Please read the introduction for documentation and terms of service.
| Use the Reconciliation API in OpenRefine: | |
For full-text search, use the /search endpoint: | |
For entity matching, use the /match endpoint: |
Politically Exposed Persons Datasets is a collection which bundles together entities from 85 data sources. See the source browser for more details...
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