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worldbank_debarred: the "Other Sanctions" table on the same page is not crawled
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Description
The crawler reads only the JSON feed at apigwext.worldbank.org/.../SANCTIONED_FIRM, which carries debarments and cross-debarments (INELIG_FLG D and X). The same page publishes a second, hand-maintained HTML table headed "Other Sanctions", holding the sanctions the World Bank imposes short of debarment: conditional non-debarment, letter of reprimand and restitution. None of those rows appear in the JSON feed, so they are missing from the dataset entirely.
The clearest example is IQVIA Consulting and Information Services India, sanctioned with conditional non-debarment from June 17, 2025 to December 16, 2026 for Fraudulent Practices, as the result of a settlement agreement. It has no record in OpenSanctions at all:
GET /search/default?q=IQVIA+Consulting+and+Information+Services+India -> 0 results
and it is genuinely absent from the feed the crawler reads:
curl -s 'https://apigwext.worldbank.org/dvsvc/v1.0/json/APPLICATION/ADOBE_EXPRNCE_MGR/FIRM/SANCTIONED_FIRM' \
-H 'apikey: z9duUaFUiEUYSHs97CU38fcZO7ipOPvm' \
| jq '[.response.ZPROCSUPP[] | select(.SUPP_NAME | test("IQVIA";"i"))] | length'
0
The table as published today is four rows:
| Name | Period | Sanction | Grounds |
|---|---|---|---|
| OAO Armada | Ongoing | Letter of reprimand | Sanctions Procedures, Section 9.04(a) |
| PT. Bumirejo | Ongoing | Letter of reprimand | January 1999 Procurement Guidelines, para. 1.15(a)(ii) |
| TPF GETINSA EUROESTUDIOS S.L. | February 29, 2024 to November 28, 2027 | Conditional non-debarment | Corrupt and Collusive Practices |
| IQVIA Consulting and Information Services India | June 17, 2025 to December 16, 2026 | Conditional non-debarment | Fraudulent Practices |
Of those, TPF Getinsa is separately debarred and so is already in the dataset (footnote *59 spells out that it remains debarred with conditions through November 28, 2027 under Decision No. 134). "OAO Armada" appears to be a different entity from the listed "OOO ARMADA CENTER". IQVIA and PT. Bumirejo have no record at all.
Two things that seem worth deciding if you pick this up:
- A conditional non-debarment or a letter of reprimand is not a debarment, and the firm stays eligible for Bank financing. Emitting these into
worldbank_debarredunder thedebarmenttopic would overstate them, so a separate dataset or at least a distinct topic looks more accurate. - The table is hand maintained and the published HTML carries typos ("Feberuary", "Non-debarmen"), so a parser should not key on exact strings for the sanction type.
Happy to open a PR if that is useful.
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
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Research direction
Start at the worldbank_debarred crawler and its current JSON-feed entry point, then compare its output with the World Bank's hand-maintained "Other Sanctions" table. Decide whether these records need a separate dataset or topic, accounting for conditional non-debarment and reprimands. Done means the relevant sanctions are represented without overstating them as debarments, including coverage for IQVIA and PT. Bumirejo.
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- data-engineering
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