This sounds like a really typical implementation of an AML system. My guess is they actually shut it off because it generated too many false positives. In autho

This sounds like a really typical implementation of an AML system. My guess is they actually shut it off because it generated too many false positives. In authoritarian countries, corruption charges are generally trumped up when an official becomes inconvenient for those in power. This means that there are a lot of things officials do that are tolerated and will be used against them once they need to be removed. Therefore the definition of corruption is loose as it's kind of an accepted operating model. If you implement a system like this, suddenly all that acceptable behavior generates lots of positives because your feature selection and classification is based on a threshold no one meets.