Screen a name for sanctions
sanctions_screenScreen a person or entity name against 44,000+ active sanctions and export-control designations with trigram fuzzy match. Covers six sanctions lists — EU consolidated, UN, OFAC, the UK Sanctions List (FCDO), the French Registre des gels, and the Australian DFAT Consolidated List (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade website – www.dfat.gov.au, CC BY 4.0) — plus 11 US export-control lists (BIS Entity List, Denied Persons, Unverified, Military End User; State ITAR-Debarred and Nonproliferation; OFAC SSI, CMIC, MBS, PLC, CAPTA). Refreshed daily. Returns matches with a match score (0–100, by match type as on company search: 100 the name is the query, 80–99 it starts with it, 50–79 it holds the words, under 50 only parts of words), source list, aliases and the country as an ISO code (country_as_listed keeps the spelling as listed); the same entity on several lists is one row per list unless group is entity. Names in non-Latin scripts (Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic and others) are transliterated to Latin letters, in the query and in the listed names, before matching, so a name in its own script and in Latin spelling match the same entity. Use threshold to control match strictness. BETA.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| name | Yes | Name to screen. | |
| limit | No | ||
| threshold | No | Minimum match-confidence percentage (50–100, default 80). | |
| entity_type | No | Restrict to one entity type. Omit to screen all types. | |
| include_pep | No | Also screen against politically exposed persons (BETA, Spain only, from Wikidata) and return a separate pep block. Membership is by OCCUPATION, not office: 44% of the set has no recorded office and local officials (6,108) outnumber national ones (3,191). Every hit carries positions[], pep_tier and has_current_office — read them rather than treating a match as a determination. Deceased people are never returned (a date of death on Wikidata, or born 100 or more years ago with no recorded death, counts as deceased). Holds no relatives or close associates, so on its own it does not satisfy a FATF PEP obligation. | |
| pep_min_tier | No | Only return PEP hits at or above this tier. Omit to receive every hit, including those with no recorded office. |