Identity verification
built for Bulgaria 
Лична карта, биометричен паспорт, and EU/EEA documents on one session — EU AMLD6 + GDPR + Measures Against Money Laundering Act 2018. $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.
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How identity verification works in Bulgaria.
- Fraud landscape
- Two pressures shape Bulgarian identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-identity attacks on the wave of BNB-licensed payment institutions and FSC-supervised MiCA crypto operators onboarding through digital channels, and cross-border forgery pressure across the Schengen zone as Bulgarian banks onboard Romanian and North Macedonian residents. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- Measures Against Money Laundering Act 2018 (MAMLA — AMLD6 transposition)
- AMLD6 (EU Directive 2018/843)
- GDPR (Regulation 2016/679)
- MiCA (Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation)
- DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act)
- EU Regulation 2019/1157 (chip ID cards)
Who supervises identity verification in Bulgaria.
BNB
Българска народна банка (Bulgarian National Bank) — central bank and prudential supervisor for banks, payment institutions, and electronic-money issuers. Sets Customer Due Diligence requirements under the Measures Against Money Laundering Act 2018.
FSC
Комисия за финансов надзор (Financial Supervision Commission) — supervises investment firms, insurers, pension funds, and Crypto-Asset Service Providers under MiCA. Issues licensing and AML compliance requirements.
DANS
Държавна агенция 'Национална сигурност' (State Agency for National Security) — acts as Bulgaria's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Suspicious Activity Reports from obligated entities under the Measures Against Money Laundering Act 2018.
KZLD
Комисия за защита на личните данни (Commission for Personal Data Protection) — Bulgaria's supervisory authority for GDPR (Regulation 2016/679). Governs every identity verification on Bulgarian residents.
Audit Chamber
Сметна палата на Република България (Audit Chamber of the Republic of Bulgaria) — PEP Level 1 institution; senior officials listed in Didit's AML screening layer as required by MAMLA and AMLD6.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- лична карта (the polycarbonate chip LD aligned with EU Reg. 2019/1157), биометричен паспорт (with the chip read on e-Passports), шофьорска книжка, and разрешение за пребиваване for non-EU residents.
- Returns the name, ЕГН (единен граждански номер — personal identification number), date of birth, and expiry.
- Лична карта (LD) — chip read on polycarbonate card
- Шофьорска книжка · Разрешение за пребиваване
- Биометричен паспорт — chip read on e-Passport
Match the face. Prove it's a real person..
Selfie confirmed live and matched against the ID portrait.
- Duplicate check: 1:N face search across existing users. Free.
- Active liveness ($0.15) for elevated-risk flows — user turns or blinks.
- Selfie on any phone or laptop camera
- Mobile-handoff QR when the user starts on desktop
Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media.
1,300+ global sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media lists — plus Bulgarian watchlists:
- Audit Chamber of the Republic of Bulgaria — PEP Level 1 (senior state audit officials).
- Ministry of Defense — PEP Level 2 (senior ministry officials).
- Ministry of Public Service — PEP Level 2 (senior civil service officials).
- Commission for Protection of Competition (BGCPC) — SIE (state-invested entities under MAMLA).
- Bulgarian Persons of Interest — SIP (special-interest persons database).
- Financial Supervision Commission (FSC) — Warnings (regulatory enforcement notices).
- EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions List — applies under EU enforcement in Bulgaria.
- OFAC Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) — US Treasury designations.
- MONEYVAL — Council of Europe AML evaluation findings.
- UN Security Council Consolidated Sanctions List — global designations.
- Europol Most Wanted — cross-border law enforcement designations.
- FATF 40 Recommendations — risk-jurisdiction monitoring.
- Eurojust — EU judicial cooperation designations.
Severity-scored. Ongoing monitoring ($0.07/user/yr) re-checks daily and fires a webhook on new hits.
Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media — see the docs for the full module surface.
Document validation — no public registry API in Bulgaria.
Bulgaria does not currently expose a public government consumer API open to third-party integrators for cross-checking national ID records against the civil registry. Identity validation in Bulgaria therefore relies on three complementary layers that Didit runs in parallel:
- Document OCR + chip read — every field on the лична карта or паспорт is extracted and validated against ISO/ICAO templates in real time.
- Biometric liveness + face match — the selfie is confirmed as live and matched against the document portrait, eliminating synthetic and replay attacks.
- AML screening — the extracted name is screened across 1,300+ global and Bulgarian watchlists, catching sanctions, PEPs, and adverse-media hits that a registry lookup would not surface.
If an authoritative database validation API becomes available for Bulgaria, Didit will add it to the POST /v3/database-validation/ catalogue automatically — no integration changes required on your side.
Document validation — no public registry API in Bulgaria — see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Bulgaria document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Bulgaria.
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Common questions about Bulgaria.
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