DataWalk Retained by the U.S. Department of Justice to Power Landmark Financial Crime Investigations

DataWalk remains a central component of the US DoJ’s fight against high-level money laundering and narcotics trafficking.

DataWalk, the no-code graph intelligence platform, today announced its continued support of the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) Money Laundering, Narcotics, and Forfeiture (MNF) program as part of a multi-year contract extension awarded to Research Innovations Incorporated (RII).

The MNF program provides critical support to the most complex and high-impact investigations both domestically and abroad, involving financial crime, money laundering, and asset forfeiture investigations conducted by the DoJ. Since 2019, RII has utilized DataWalk as a key component of the Search and Investigative Flexible Toolkit (SIFT), a mission-critical investigative environment used by DoJ analysts and prosecutors. Within SIFT, DataWalk provides the no-code graph intelligence that allows investigators to analyze, evaluate, and act on massive amounts of structured and unstructured data and intelligence across multiple cases, agencies, and jurisdictions.

This is a follow-on contract from the original 2019 work conducted under 44 the Department of Justice’s broader $500 million BPA (Blanket Purchase Agreement) for investigative and analytical technologies, of which DataWalk is an approved and trusted provider.

“DataWalk was built to eliminate the technical bottlenecks that usually stall national-scale investigations,” said Pawel Wieczynski, CEO at DataWalk. “By working alongside RII, we ensure DOJ investigators can move from fragmented data to board-visible answers in minutes, not months.”

Within the SIFT environment, DataWalk enables investigators to:

• Ingest and analyze millions of documents and records from diverse sources
• Simplify complex data quality, identity resolution, and entity matching challenges
• Discover hidden networks, financial flows, and operational patterns
• Rapidly generate investigative leads and courtroom-ready insights

“As a former DEA agent, I’ve seen criminals walk away because the data was too complex to untangle. Investigators are overwhelmed, making it nearly impossible to connect money to criminal networks. DataWalk finally gives us the complete picture,” added David Tyree, Financial Crime Strategy Director at DataWalk, a former DEA special agent.

 The Money Laundering, Narcotics and Forfeiture Section's (MNF) mission is to take the profit out of crime, eliminate drug cartels, and protect the U.S. financial system. MNF pursues criminal prosecutions and criminal and civil asset recovery actions involving financial facilitators and third party money launderers who conceal profits for cartels, drug traffickers, and other criminal organizations; financial institutions and their officers and employees who engage in money laundering, Bank Secrecy Act, and sanctions violations; international money laundering schemes and complex international forfeitures related to money launderers who support transnational organized crime; and global, targeted investigations of the top command and control of international drug trafficking organizations.

DataWalk’s role in the program further strengthens its position as a trusted platform for law enforcement, national security, and government investigative agencies across the United States and Europe.