Exclusion is topic-level, not subject-level. An excluded topic does not shield a subject — the same person or company is still profiled if separate conduct falls inside a category.
Violence Without A Terrorist Connection
Why: these are serious crimes, but they do not generate laundered proceeds. Where a terrorist connection exists, the conduct is captured under Terrorism instead.
Opinion, Criticism and Speech
Why: criticism is not criminal conduct, and political commentary is not a risk signal. Including it would fill profiles with opinion rather than evidence.
Commercial and Civil Matters
Why: commercial failure and civil disputes are not predicate offences. Fraudulent bankruptcy is the exception, and it is captured under Financial Crime and Fraud.
Low-Severity Offences
Why: the proceeds, where any exist, fall far below any meaningful threshold. A PEP’s parking ticket is not an AML signal.
Sexual Offences and Mistreatment
Other Exclusions
Why: whistle-blowers and dissidents are subjects of allegations rather than official action, and profiling them would turn the dataset against the people reporting wrongdoing. Wildlife crime returns to scope the moment an organised group is behind it — see Not listed does not mean not covered.
What To Do With An Excluded Topic
An excluded topic is not a dead end for your own risk assessment — it is simply not carried by this dataset. Two options remain open:- Check the other datasets. Regulatory Enforcement Lists (REL) carry no financial threshold, so enforcement action that RRE filters out on value may still appear there. Profiles of Interest (POI) covers heightened-scrutiny entities.
- Record it in your own review. Where your policy treats an excluded topic as material, document the decision on the case rather than expecting a screening hit to raise it for you.
Related Pages
RRE Dataset Overview
What RRE is, which evidence qualifies, and how it differs from REL.
RRE Categories in Scope
The six core categories, their subcategories, and the thresholds that apply.