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In the Italian section, analyzed by Bed sheet4544 names appear, ranging from politicians like Matteo Renzi and Walter Veltroni to industrialists like Ferrero and Merloni, from army officers to 2,732 investigated or convicted of various crimes, especially organized crime. The information collected includes date of birth, address, marital status, education, photography, social profiles, political affiliation, criminal record and other details. For some people, for example Renzi and Berlusconi, the network of family relationships is also reconstructed, with the names and details of the closest relatives.
There are not many details about Zhenhua. Founded in 2018, the company operates in Shenzhen, the technology capital of China. All or most of the information it collects is publicly available on the web, a practice known as “open intelligence,” and is searched by searching with search algorithms from sources ranging from newspaper articles to social media and then embedded in a database called Okidb, ie “Oversea Key Information Database”. On the now-inaccessible site, the company described its mission as “integrating global open source data to aid the great rejuvenation of Chinese nationality,” President Xi Jinping’s political slogan, and claimed to have the army and the Communist Party.
It is unclear if there is a link between the archive and the Chinese government, and of what kind. Some analysts note that Beijing intelligence often uses private entities for intelligence gathering operations. But it is also true that certain statements by Zhenhua seem too explicit, starting with his internet address china-revival.com, the “national bailout.” The strategic value of the archive is also unknown, considering that the data it contains is vast but all public. The Australian network ABC talks about an alleged affiliation between Zhenhua and China Electronics, a public military telecommunications giant, but on the pages of the company’s website that Republic I could consult there is no trace of the legane. The company claims to have twenty information collection centers around the world and in addition to the archive of personal profiles it also has one of the foreign institutions and another dedicated to foreign news.
The database stolen from Zhenhua was leaked to Chris Balding, an American academic who left China in 2018 criticizing the regime, who in turn handed it over to an Australian cybersecurity company called Internet 2.0, which achieved success. to recover about a tenth. Of the 250,000 profiles that can be analyzed, a small part of the total, some 50,000 are Americans, 35,000 Australians, 10,000 Indians and 9,700 British, but there are also some from small countries such as Malaysia and Papua New Guinea.
The list of almost 5,000 Italian names, each with an identification code, is divided into three categories. In the first, “politically exposed people”, there are parliamentarians and former parliamentarians such as Laura Boldrini, Enrico Letta and Giulio Tremonti, but also businessmen such as Lisa Ferrarini, former vice-president of Confindustria, scientists such as Carlo Doglioni, president of the National Institute of Geophysics, prelates. and exponents of the port authorities, a field in which China’s interest is very high. Unlike the lists that concern other countries, the Italian does not have members of the current government. The second part is that of “relatives and collaborators”, members of the family. The third, the broadest, is that of “persons of special interest”. Here are almost 3,000 names of people prosecuted or investigated for a series of crimes, mainly organized crime but also terrorism.
