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Libyan National ID Card and Passport on one session, screened against UN Security Council Libya sanctions and global watchlists — $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Libya.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Three pressures shape Libyan identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-ID attacks targeting CBL-licensed banks and money transfer operators operating cross-border payment corridors, National ID Card template forgery amid the ongoing transition between legacy and biometric document generations, and AML pressure from UN Security Council Resolution 1970 asset-freeze designations and OFAC Libya sanctions programmes. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • Law No. 1 of 2008 on Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism
  • Law No. 1 of 2005 on Banking
  • UN Security Council Resolution 1970 (2011) — Libya sanctions regime
  • UN Security Council Resolution 1973 (2011) — arms embargo and asset freeze
  • MENAFATF 40 recommendations (FATF-style regional body)
  • EU Council Regulation (EU) No. 204/2011 — Libya restrictive measures
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Libya.

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

  • CBL

    Central Bank of Libya (Al-Marqazi) — primary financial supervisor for banks, money transfer operators, and payment institutions under Law No. 1 of 2005 on Banking.

  • AMLCU

    Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing Combating Unit — Libya's Financial Intelligence Unit. Administers Law No. 1 of 2008 on Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism; receives Suspicious Transaction Reports.

  • CSC

    Capital Market Authority / Libyan Stock Market — securities regulator supervising listed entities and investment vehicles. Publishes enforcement and debarment registers.

  • CRA

    Civil Register Authority (Ministry of Interior) — issuer of the National ID Card and the authoritative civil register for Libyan citizens.

  • UNSC 1970 Committee

    United Nations Security Council 1970 Sanctions Committee — administers the Libya sanctions regime (asset freeze, arms embargo, travel ban) under UN Security Council Resolution 1970 of 2011 and subsequent measures. Applies directly to all obliged entities in Libya.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Libya 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.

  • Libyan National ID Card (Al-Bitaqa Al-Wataniyya), Passport, Driving Licence, Residence Permit, and Family Booklet.
  • Returns: full name, National Identification Number (NIN), date of birth, place of birth, nationality, expiry.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • National ID Card (Al-Bitaqa Al-Wataniyya)
  • Passport — NFC chip read on biometric series
  • Driving Licence · Residence Permit · Family Booklet
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 Libya watchlists:

  • UN Security Council 1970 Committee — asset-freeze and travel-ban designations under the Libya sanctions regime (UNSCR 1970/2011 and subsequent measures).
  • UN Security Council — Consolidated List — ISIL/Al-Qaida (1267/1989/2253) designations transposed in Libya.
  • OFAC SDN List — Libya sanctions programme — US Treasury asset-freeze designations targeting Libyan regime figures and sanctions evasion.
  • EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions List — Libya — restrictive measures under EU Council Regulation 204/2011.
  • UK Sanctions List — Libya regime — FCDO-administered designations with asset-freeze and travel-ban components.
  • AMLCU — domestic AML designations — Libya's Financial Intelligence Unit designations under Law No. 1 of 2008.
  • Central Bank of Libya — enforcement actions — CBL-level sanctions on banks and payment institutions.
  • MENAFATF regional designated entities — Middle East and North Africa FATF-body named persons and entities.

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 Libya currently exposed as a standalone Didit service — the Civil Register Authority does not currently offer a public consumer API open to third-party integrators.

The OCR + biometric + AML stack is the authoritative CBL- and AMLCU-compliant path today: the National Identification Number is OCR-parsed from the National ID Card, the face is matched against the portrait, and the AML stage screens the extracted name against every Libyan and international watchlist. Enterprise customers can talk to sales about registry-linkage options as they become available.

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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 Libya 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 Libya.

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 Libya

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

Common questions about Libya.

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