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Chadian National ID Card and Passport on one session, screened against GIABA West Africa regional watchlists and global sanctions — $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Chad.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Three pressures shape Chadian identity fraud: synthetic-ID and deepfake attacks targeting BEAC-supervised mobile-money operators and microfinance institutions serving a predominantly rural unbanked population, CNI template forgery during the ongoing biometric document rollout across all 23 provinces, and AML pressure from Boko Haram-linked terror financing in the Lake Chad Basin under UN Security Council and OFAC designations. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • Law No. 06/PR/2014 on Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing in Chad
  • CEMAC Regulation No. 01/03/CEMAC/UMAC/CM on prevention of money laundering
  • BEAC and COBAC prudential standards for CEMAC-licensed banks
  • GABAC 40 recommendations (FATF-style regional body for Central Africa)
  • UN Security Council Resolution 2349 (2017) — Lake Chad Basin security framework
  • FATF 40 recommendations
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Chad.

These are the supervisors a Chad verification flow has to answer to. One Didit hosted flow + one audit log covers every one of them — no separate integration per agency.

  • BEAC

    Banque des États de l'Afrique Centrale — regional central bank for the CEMAC zone including Chad. Supervises banks and payment institutions; issues authorisation and prudential standards for digital financial services.

  • COBAC

    Commission Bancaire de l'Afrique Centrale — CEMAC prudential banking supervisor. Enforces AML/CFT compliance requirements on licensed banks operating in Chad and issues administrative sanctions.

  • ANLUFT

    Agence Nationale de Lutte contre le Blanchiment et le Financement du Terrorisme — Chad's Financial Intelligence Unit. Administers Law No. 06/PR/2014 on Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing; receives Suspicious Transaction Reports.

  • GABAC

    Groupe d'Action contre le Blanchiment d'Argent en Afrique Centrale — the FATF-style regional body for Central Africa. Chad is a member; GABAC mutual evaluations and typologies apply to BEAC-supervised institutions.

  • High Judicial Council

    Conseil Supérieur de la Magistrature — Chad's judicial oversight body. Enforces anti-corruption obligations and PEP due-diligence requirements applicable to COBAC-supervised financial institutions.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Chad database cross-check — composed on one workflow, billed per success, returned in one report.
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01 · ID

Capture and read the ID.

Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.

  • Chadian National ID Card (CNI), Passeport Biométrique (with NFC chip read), Permis de Conduire, and Titre de Séjour.
  • Returns: full name, national identification number, date of birth, place of birth, nationality, expiry.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • Carte Nationale d'Identité (CNI)
  • Passeport Biométrique — NFC chip read
  • Permis de Conduire · Titre de Séjour
02 · Biometric

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.
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Stage 02Match the face. Prove it's a real person.
  • Selfie on any phone or laptop camera
  • Mobile-handoff QR when the user starts on desktop
03 · AML

Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media.

1,300+ global sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media lists — plus Chad watchlists:

  • ANLUFT — Chadian FIU designations — national AML and counter-terrorism financing designations under Law No. 06/PR/2014.
  • Ministry of National Education and Civic Promotion — Chad PEP register — senior government Politically Exposed Persons.
  • GABAC — Central Africa regional designated entities — Groupe d'Action contre le Blanchiment d'Argent en Afrique Centrale typologies and named persons.
  • GIABA — Lake Chad Basin cross-border typologies — West Africa regional AML body guidance on cross-border terror-financing routes.
  • UN Security Council — 2349 Committee and Consolidated List — Lake Chad Basin security framework and Boko Haram/ISWAP (1267/1989/2253) designations.
  • OFAC SDN List — West Africa/Lake Chad Basin — US Treasury measures targeting Boko Haram and Lake Chad Basin terror-financing networks.
  • EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions List — measures affecting Chad and the Lake Chad Basin.
  • Basel AML Index — Chad country-risk score and high-risk indicators.

Severity-scored. Ongoing monitoring ($0.07/user/yr) re-checks daily and fires a webhook on new hits.

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Stage 03Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media

Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media — see the docs for the full module surface.

04 · Registry

Cross-check the identity at scale.

  • There is no public government database validation API for Chad currently exposed as a standalone Didit service — the DGDSN civil registry does not currently offer a public consumer API open to third-party integrators.

The OCR + biometric + AML stack is the authoritative BEAC/COBAC- and ANLUFT-compliant path today: the national identification number is OCR-parsed from the CNI, the face is matched against the portrait, and the AML stage screens the extracted name against every Chadian and GABAC/GIABA regional watchlist. Enterprise customers can talk to sales about registry-linkage options as BEAC-authorised data partners onboard.

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Stage 04Cross-check the identity at scale

Cross-check the identity at scale — see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Chad document Didit accepts.

One row per accepted credential — flag, document name, document type. Live from the Didit Business Console.
Authoritative datasets

Civil-registry and AML coverage for Chad.

One card per dataset Didit cross-checks against — civil registries on the Database Validation API plus the global AML watchlist pool. Each card links to the technical docs.
aml-screening

AML lists screened in Chad

1,300+ sanctions, Politically Exposed Persons (PEP), and adverse-media lists, plus the country's regulatory watchlists and PEP registries.

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Compliant by design

Open a new country in one click. We do the hard work.

We open the local subsidiaries, secure the licenses, run the penetration tests, earn the certifications, and align with every new regulation. To ship verifications in a new country, flip a toggle. 220+ countries live, audited and pen-tested every quarter — the only identity provider an EU member-state government has formally called safer than in-person verification.
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EU financial sandbox
Tesoro · SEPBLAC · BdE
ISO/IEC 27001
Information security · 2026
SOC 2 · Type I
AICPA · 2026
iBeta Level 1 PAD
NIST / NIAP · 2026
GDPR
EU 2016/679
DORA
EU 2022/2554
MiCA
EU 2023/1114
AMLD6 · eIDAS 2.0
EU-aligned by design
FAQ

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