AI decision audit trail

Priya Sharma — Meridian Textiles Pte Ltd

Mapped to Taiwan FSC's "Guidelines for the Use of AI in the Financial Industry" (June 20, 2024), four-stage AI lifecycle: planning & design; data collection; model building & validation; deployment & monitoring. Generated 2026-10-01 21:55 UTC from case data current as of that time.

Not a compliance determination

FSC guidance requires firms using third-party generative AI to designate personnel who "objectively and professionally manage" the risk and to keep records of AI model design and decision-making to assess fairness. This document is that record for this case — it is evidence to support a human reviewer's decision, not a substitute for one.

Stage 1

Overview

This case draws on AI assistance in two places: identifying the beneficial owners of the subject entity and how they're connected, and assessing the evidence behind the client's source-of-wealth claims. In both cases, the AI does not make the final call — it produces a confidence assessment and a written explanation, and a human reviewer decides what happens next. Every AI response is captured in a fixed, consistent format specifically so it can be logged and reviewed here, rather than left as free-form text. AI model used: Claude, developed by Anthropic.

Stage 2

Data collection

Every document submitted for this case is kept exactly as received and is the only basis for any AI-derived finding that follows from it. 5 document(s) submitted to date.

Ownership document 2026-08-14 06:08 UTC

ACRA BIZFILE — BUSINESS PROFILE (Extract), pulled 2024-11-04 by the bank using UEN 201512345K (provided by the client at onboarding) ------------------------------------------------------------ UEN: 201512345K Entity Name: MERIDIAN TEXTILES PTE. LTD. Entity Type: Local Company Business Constitution: Company Limited by Shares Company Type: Private Company Limited by Shares Date of Registration/Incorporation: 2015-03-12 Entity Status: Live Registered Address: 16 Kallang Place, Textile House, Singapore 339157 Primary SSIC: 13990 — Other Textile Manufacturing N.E.C. No. of Officers: 3 ------------------------------------------------------------ Shareholders of record (per Bizfile's Company Shareholders Details): Priya Sharma — 150,000 shares (15.0%) Sharma Holdings Pte Ltd — 650,000 shares (65.0%) Daniel Koh — 80,000 shares (8.0%) Other shareholders — 120,000 shares (12.0%) Total issued shares: 1,000,000 ordinary shares

Ownership document 2026-08-14 06:09 UTC

identity verification confirms National ID S8512345A, date of birth 14 February 1985, for client Priya Sharma — matches the record on file.

Identifiers were withheld before this was sent to the AI

identity verification confirms National ID [NATIONAL-ID-REDACTED], date of birth [DATE-OF-BIRTH-REDACTED], for client Priya Sharma — matches the record on file.

date of birth: matched Priya Sharma on file

national id: matched Priya Sharma on file

Ownership document 2026-08-14 06:09 UTC

ACRA BIZFILE — BUSINESS PROFILE (Extract), pulled 2024-11-04 by the bank using UEN 201811987H (Sharma Holdings Pte Ltd, identified from the Meridian Textiles shareholder register above) ------------------------------------------------------------ UEN: 201811987H Entity Name: SHARMA HOLDINGS PTE. LTD. Entity Type: Local Company Entity Status: Live ------------------------------------------------------------ Shareholders of record (per Bizfile's Company Shareholders Details): Priya Sharma — 100,000 shares (100.0%) Total issued shares: 100,000 ordinary shares

Ownership document 2026-08-14 06:10 UTC

an individual named Daniel Koh is registered as holding an 8% stake in Meridian Textiles Pte Ltd, but is reported by industry contacts to be acting as a nominee for Priya Sharma — this has not been confirmed through primary documentation.

SoW evidence 2026-08-14 06:12 UTC

ACRA deregistration filing, 2018: confirms Priya Sharma sold her stake in a prior textile trading business for SGD 12,000,000, consistent with the claimed sale. Employer HR records confirm salary payments to Priya Sharma consistent with the claimed role and period, 2014-2019. Brokerage statements show transfers into Priya Sharma's account in 2019-2021, but the dates precede the confirmed 2018 stake sale that was claimed as the source of these funds — the timing is inconsistent with the stated source.

Stage 3

Model building & validation

This system does not train or customize its own AI model — it uses a general-purpose model provided by a third party (Anthropic). Taiwan's FSC guidance is explicit that firms in this position must still actively manage that risk rather than accept the AI's output uncritically. To do that, every AI output passes through the checks below before anything is added to the case record:

A new name is only linked to an existing person or company when the AI positively confirms it's the same one.

Otherwise it's treated as new and kept separate. This is what lets 'Lin Wei-Chen' — a different ordering of the same name — correctly match the existing 'Wei-Chen L.' record instead of being logged as a different person.

A known ownership percentage can never be silently erased by a later, less specific document.

If a new document doesn't state a specific percentage for a relationship that's already on file, the existing figure is kept rather than cleared. This protects a confirmed stake from being lost just because a later document mentioned the relationship without repeating the number.

Indirect ownership through a chain of companies is calculated independently, not estimated by the AI.

The AI is only asked to report direct relationships a document actually states — for example, 'Company A owns 70% of Company B.' Any indirect stake reachable through a chain of companies is then calculated separately by the system itself, so the same ownership can't be counted twice.

Every confidence score comes with a written reason, and the system leans cautious.

The AI is never allowed to return a bare number — each score must include a short explanation. It's also instructed to weigh the two directions differently: evidence that contradicts a claim should lower confidence sharply, while evidence that supports it should raise confidence more gradually. Missing a real problem is treated as more costly than being overly cautious.

National ID numbers and dates of birth are never sent to the AI model.

When a submitted document contains one, it's compared locally, within our own systems, against the record already on file — the AI is only ever told whether that comparison matched, not the number itself. This keeps the raw identifier from ever reaching the third-party AI provider, while still letting the system use a positive match as supporting evidence when resolving a name variant.

Stage 4

Deployment & monitoring

Beneficial ownership — current state

Company Act — 10% threshold

80.0% confirmed

AML Act — 25% threshold

80.64% potential

Escalated for human review

Potential aggregate control (80.64%) crosses the 25% UBO threshold pending confirmation of inferred relationships. No automated action closes this case.

Relationship	Status	Rationale	Recorded
Priya Sharma → Meridian Textiles Pte Ltd (15% direct shareholder)	verified	ACRA Bizfile shareholders of record list Priya Sharma holding 150,000 of 1,000,000 shares (15.0%).	2026-08-14 06:08
Sharma Holdings Pte Ltd → Meridian Textiles Pte Ltd (65% direct shareholder)	verified	ACRA Bizfile shareholders of record list Sharma Holdings Pte Ltd holding 650,000 of 1,000,000 shares (65.0%).	2026-08-14 06:08
Daniel Koh → Meridian Textiles Pte Ltd (8% direct shareholder)	verified	ACRA Bizfile shareholders of record list Daniel Koh holding 80,000 of 1,000,000 shares (8.0%).	2026-08-14 06:08
Priya Sharma → Sharma Holdings Pte Ltd (100% direct shareholder)	verified	ACRA Bizfile shareholder register lists Priya Sharma as sole holder of 100,000 shares (100%) in Sharma Holdings Pte Ltd.	2026-08-14 06:09
Priya Sharma → Daniel Koh (beneficial interest via nominee (unconfirmed))	inferred	Industry contacts report Daniel Koh's 8% registered stake in Meridian Textiles is held as nominee for Priya Sharma; not confirmed by primary documentation.	2026-08-14 06:10

How the ownership structure was uncovered

2026-08-14 06:08 UTC

Pulled ACRA Bizfile extract for Meridian Textiles Pte Ltd (UEN 201512345K), confirming registered shareholders as of the extract date: Priya Sharma (15.0%), Sharma Holdings Pte Ltd (65.0%, new majority shareholder entity identified), Daniel Koh (8.0%, new individual), and unnamed "other shareholders" (12.0%, not individually resolved). These are official registry-verified direct shareholding percentages, superseding any prior unconfirmed figures for Priya Sharma's stake in Meridian.

2026-08-14 06:09 UTC

Identity verification document confirms client Priya Sharma's national ID and date of birth match the existing record on file. No new ownership relationships or entities disclosed; no edges added."

2026-08-14 06:09 UTC

ACRA Bizfile extract for Sharma Holdings Pte Ltd (UEN 201811987H) confirms Priya Sharma is the sole registered shareholder, holding 100% (100,000 ordinary shares). This closes the chain: Priya Sharma -> Sharma Holdings -> 65% of Meridian Textiles, in addition to her own direct 15% stake in Meridian Textiles.

2026-08-14 06:10 UTC

Unconfirmed industry report suggests Daniel Koh's registered 8% stake in Meridian Textiles Pte Ltd is held as a nominee for Priya Sharma, meaning her true aggregate beneficial interest in Meridian may be understated by current direct/holding-company edges. Recorded as an inferred beneficiary edge (Priya Sharma -> Daniel Koh) pending primary documentation.

2026-08-14 06:10 UTC

Checked 'Priya Sharma' against ICIJ's public Offshore Leaks Database (810,000+ entities from the Panama Papers, Paradise Papers, Pandora Papers, Bahamas Leaks, and Offshore Leaks investigations). No confirmed match -- ICIJ's own high-confidence match flag is false for every candidate returned. Closest candidates, for reference only, not treated as findings: 'Gaurav SHARMA' (Entity node extracted from the Offshore Leaks data., similarity 61.5/100); 'SHARMA LTD' (Entity node extracted from the Pandora Papers - SFM Corporate Services data., similarity 58.3/100); 'Sharma Limited' (Entity node extracted from the Panama Papers data., similarity 57.1/100).

2026-08-14 06:10 UTC

Checked 'Meridian Textiles Pte Ltd' against ICIJ's public Offshore Leaks Database (810,000+ entities from the Panama Papers, Paradise Papers, Pandora Papers, Bahamas Leaks, and Offshore Leaks investigations). No confirmed match -- ICIJ's own high-confidence match flag is false for every candidate returned. Closest candidates, for reference only, not treated as findings: 'TAG MARINE SERVICES PTE. LTD.' (Entity node extracted from the Offshore Leaks data., similarity 51.9/100); 'CM TEXTILES LTD.' (Entity node extracted from the Panama Papers data., similarity 48.0/100); 'TEXMATIL PTE. LTD.' (Entity node extracted from the Panama Papers data., similarity 48.0/100).

2026-08-14 06:11 UTC

Checked 'Sharma Holdings Pte Ltd' against ICIJ's public Offshore Leaks Database (810,000+ entities from the Panama Papers, Paradise Papers, Pandora Papers, Bahamas Leaks, and Offshore Leaks investigations). No confirmed match -- ICIJ's own high-confidence match flag is false for every candidate returned. Closest candidates, for reference only, not treated as findings: 'MELCON HOLDINGS LTD.' (Entity node extracted from the Panama Papers data., similarity 60.9/100); 'TKT GLOBAL HOLDINGS PTE. LTD.' (Entity node extracted from the Panama Papers data., similarity 51.9/100); 'KAM HOLDINGS LTD.' (Entity node extracted from the Panama Papers data., similarity 47.8/100).

2026-08-14 06:11 UTC

Checked 'Daniel Koh' against ICIJ's public Offshore Leaks Database (810,000+ entities from the Panama Papers, Paradise Papers, Pandora Papers, Bahamas Leaks, and Offshore Leaks investigations). No confirmed match -- ICIJ's own high-confidence match flag is false for every candidate returned. Closest candidates, for reference only, not treated as findings: 'J Koh & Co.' (Entity node extracted from the Offshore Leaks data., similarity 40.0/100); 'Daniel F. Adams' (Entity node extracted from the Offshore Leaks data., similarity 35.7/100); 'Koh Cheng Huat' (Entity node extracted from the Offshore Leaks data., similarity 35.7/100).

Source-of-wealth claims — how confidence changed over time

Sale of prior business stake, 2018

NT$12,000,000 claimed

When	Confidence	Status	Note
2026-08-14 06:08	0%	pending	No evidence submitted yet.
2026-08-14 06:12	78%	corroborated	ACRA deregistration filing is an official third-party government record confirming the sale of the textile trading business stake for SGD 12,000,000 in 2018, consistent with the claim.

Salary

NT$9,000,000 claimed

When	Confidence	Status	Note
2026-08-14 06:08	0%	pending	No evidence submitted yet.
2026-08-14 06:12	55%	corroborated	Employer HR records corroborate salary payments consistent with claimed role and period, but as employer-provided records (not independently verified tax/payroll authority data) confidence is capped at moderate level.

Dividend Income

NT$6,000,000 claimed

When	Confidence	Status	Note
2026-08-14 06:08	0%	pending	No evidence submitted yet.
2026-08-14 06:12	15%	downgraded	Brokerage statements show inflows in 2019-2021, but these post-date the 2018 stake sale claimed as their source, and no evidence supports these as dividend income; the timing inconsistency undermines this claim rather than supporting it.

Aggregate check — claimed sources vs actual assets

Claimed sources total NT$27,000,000 against total assets of NT$32,000,000. A gap of NT$5,000,000 has no claimed source, independent of any single claim's status.