The risk relating to PEPs is a double edged sword, it is both the PEP themselves (the high ranking government official) and their relatives and associates. Castellum.AI logs both of these groups in our database, but we denote the PEP themselves with a red briefcase.
In the example below, Jorrit Faassen is Russian President Vladimir Putin's son-in-law, he is not the PEP himself, but the PEPs he is connected to, are marked with Red Briefcases.