Case Study: icourts achieves identification and prosecution of $50M AML breaches with RelativityOne (Relativity)

icourts Investigates Anti-Money Laundering Breaches at International Bank

icourts, a Sydney-based investigative analytics firm, was engaged by a financial regulator after a whistleblower alleged anti-money laundering (AML) breaches involving $50 million at a large international bank. The bank produced 0.5 TB of data—roughly 75 million pages and millions of communications—which created a massive evidence-management and review challenge. To tackle this, icourts used Relativity tools, including RelativityOne, Early Case Assessment and Analytics, to defensibly manage and prioritize the dataset.

Relativity helped icourts perform artificial deduplication, run concept searching and clustering, normalize names, analyze communications, and use Case Dynamics and short-message review to build timelines and interview packs. By culling and analyzing ~75 million pages and hosting only “master” and “unique” documents in RelativityOne (while retaining duplicates in a lower-cost repository billed at one-third the cost), the team saved time and expense, identified a pattern of non‑compliant behavior among senior compliance managers, followed the $50M money flows, and produced evidence that supported prosecution. Relativity’s workflow also enabled auditable interviews and ongoing regulator training to sustain future investigations.

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