Identity verification
built for Mauritius 
National ID Card and Passport on one session, screened against Mauritian FSC and BOM watchlists, $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.
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How identity verification works in Mauritius.
- Fraud landscape
- Three pressures shape Mauritian identity fraud: sophisticated shell-company and beneficial-ownership obfuscation targeting the IFC sector, deepfake attacks on the growing fintech and crypto-asset trading platforms, and cross-border investment-fraud schemes exploiting the Mauritius–India and Mauritius–Africa double-tax treaty network. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- Financial Intelligence and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2002 (FIAMLA), as amended 2020
- Data Protection Act 2017 (Mauritius)
- FSC Mauritius Guidelines on KYC / AML for Global Business Companies
- Bank of Mauritius AML/CFT Guidance Notes for Banks and non-Bank Deposit-Taking Institutions
- FATF 40 recommendations (Mauritius, full FATF member, no grey-list exposure)
Who supervises identity verification in Mauritius.
FSC
Financial Services Commission Mauritius, omnibus regulator for non-banking financial services: global business companies, investment funds, fintech licence holders, virtual-asset service providers, insurance, and capital markets.
BoM
Bank of Mauritius, central bank and prudential supervisor for banks, payment-service providers, and electronic-money issuers. Issues the BoM KYC/AML Guidelines binding on all licensed banks.
FIU Mauritius
Financial Intelligence Unit Mauritius, operates under FIAMLA 2002 (Financial Intelligence and Anti-Money Laundering Act). Receives Suspicious Transaction Reports and co-operates with Egmont Group partners worldwide.
DPA Office
Data Protection Office Mauritius, enforces the Data Protection Act 2017. Governs the collection, processing, and cross-border transfer of personal data including identity-verification records.
ESAAMLG
Eastern and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering Group, Mauritius is a founding member in good standing. ESAAMLG mutual evaluations set the regional AML/CFT baseline Mauritius is measured against.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone, auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- National Identity Card (NICO-issued, with the National ID Number), Passport (with the chip read on e-Passports), Driver's Licence, and Permanent Resident / Residence Permits for foreign investors and residents.
- Returns: full name, date of birth, document number, expiry, MRZ.
- National Identity Card
- Passport, chip read on e-Passport
- Driver's Licence · Permanent Resident Permit
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 Mauritius watchlists:
- National Assembly of Mauritius, PEP Level 1 elected legislative officials.
- MUFSC (Mauritius Financial Services Commission), SIP regulatory enforcement and watchlist register.
- Corporate and Business Registration Department (CBRD), Warnings for entities barred or flagged in the Mauritian company registry.
- FIU Mauritius, STR enforcement register for Mauritius-flagged entities.
- ESAAMLG, Eastern and Southern Africa AML Group regional watchlist.
- FATF, Financial Action Task Force global standards watchlist (Mauritius is a full member).
- Interpol East Africa, international law enforcement cooperation register.
- Basel AML Index, Mauritius country-risk scoring.
- OFAC SDN List, global designations including offshore financial-centre nexus.
- EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions List, EU designations applicable to Mauritius-based entities.
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.
Bind every check to one audited session.
- There is no public government database validation API for Mauritius currently exposed as a standalone Didit service, the NICO national ID registry does not currently offer a public consumer API open to third-party integrators.
Bind every check to one audited session , see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Mauritius document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Mauritius.
Open a new country in one click. We do the hard work.
Common questions about Mauritius.
What does Didit ship?
Didit is the infrastructure layer for identity and fraud. One Application Programming Interface (API), 25+ composable modules across four product lines:
- User Verification (KYC, know your customer), Identity Document Verification, liveness, face match, Anti-Money Laundering (AML) screening, Internet Protocol (IP) analysis. $0.33 per full bundle.
- Business Verification (KYB, know your business), registry, Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO), officers, entity AML, plus a linked KYC session per UBO.
- Transaction Monitoring, real-time rule engine, case management, Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) workflow.
- Wallet Screening (KYT, know your transaction), on-chain wallet risk at $0.15 per check, or bring your own screening provider and run it inside Didit.
Compose any module into a workflow with the visual no-code builder, ship in 5 minutes, 500 verifications free every month, forever.
How is Didit different from a single-product Know Your Customer (KYC) vendor?
Most identity vendors sell one slice, a KYC check, an Anti-Money Laundering (AML) list, a wallet screen. Didit ships the infrastructure underneath all of them, and the gap shows up on six axes:
- Pricing. Public price on every module, $0.33 for a full KYC, 500 verifications free every month, no minimums, no contracts. Single-product vendors hide six-figure minimums behind a sales call.
- Access. Sandbox in one click, self-serve from day one, production keys on signup. Single-product vendors gate the sandbox behind a contract, months to evaluate.
- Developer experience. Public docs, a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Claude Code and Cursor, and native Software Development Kits (SDKs) for Web, iOS, Android, React Native, and Flutter. Integrate in 5 minutes with an AI agent or in a working afternoon by hand.
- User experience. Highest pass rates in the market, sub-2-second end-to-end inference, country-specialised capture flows, 48+ languages out of the box.
- Flexibility. One
/v3/Application Programming Interface (API) composes 25+ modules across KYC, KYB, Transaction Monitoring, and Wallet Screening. - AI-era fraud. 200+ real-time fraud signals scored on every session, deepfake, injection, synthetic-ID, document forgery, face-morph, device intelligence, replay.
Common in fintech, IFC, and crypto, the same architecture fits global business companies, fund managers, iGaming, and any vertical where you need to know who someone is and what they are doing.
What does it cost? Is anything actually free?
500 verifications free every month, forever, on every account. No credit card. No sales call. No expiry.
Above the free tier, every module has a public per-success price on didit.me/pricing, $0.33 per full KYC bundle, $0.15 per Identity Document Verification, $0.15 per Wallet Screening, $0.20 per Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Screening, $0.10 per liveness, $0.05 per face match, $0.03 per Internet Protocol (IP) analysis.
Pay-as-you-go, no minimums, no overage surprises. Volume discounts kick in automatically as you grow.
Which Mauritian regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?
Three sit on top of every Mauritian identity-verification flow:
- Financial Services Commission (FSC), omnibus regulator for Global Business Companies, investment funds, fintech licences, and Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs). Sets KYC requirements under the Financial Intelligence and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2002 (FIAMLA) as amended.
- Bank of Mauritius (BoM), sets KYC/AML requirements for banks and payment-service providers under the BoM AML/CFT Guidance Notes.
- FIU Mauritius, Financial Intelligence Unit. Administers FIAMLA, receives Suspicious Transaction Reports, and coordinates with the Egmont Group.
Personal-data handling is governed by the Data Protection Act 2017, enforced by the Data Protection Office.
Didit ships the hosted flow + audit log + watchlist coverage to satisfy all three at the same time, same POST /v3/session/ workflow, same JSON report, same SOC 2 Type 1 + ISO/IEC 27001 evidence pack.
Is Mauritius on the FATF grey list?
No, Mauritius is a full FATF member in good standing with no grey-list exposure.
Mauritius was removed from the FATF grey list in October 2021 after implementing a comprehensive AML/CFT remediation programme. The jurisdiction now maintains:
- A FIAMLA 2002 framework amended in 2020 with enhanced due diligence requirements.
- An active FIU integrated with the Egmont Group worldwide intelligence-sharing network.
- ESAAMLG full-member status with a strong mutual-evaluation track record.
For FSC-licensed Global Business Companies and other IFC entities, Mauritius is one of the most compliance-friendly African jurisdictions, rigorous standards but clear guidance, no grey-list stigma, and a well-resourced regulator that issues public guidance on digital onboarding.
How does Didit handle UBO verification for Mauritian Global Business Companies?
Business Verification (KYB) handles the UBO layer, linked to a KYC session per beneficial owner.
For Mauritian GBCs and other FSC-licensed entities:
1. KYB session, Registry lookup + UBO extraction + officer data + entity AML screening. 2. Linked KYC sessions, one per UBO, each running the full ID + Biometric + AML flow and returning a tamper-evident JSON report. 3. Ongoing AML Monitoring ($0.07 per user / year), re-checks every UBO and every entity daily, fires a webhook on new hits.
The FSC KYC guidelines require CDD on every beneficial owner with ≥25% ownership or effective control. Didit's KYB → KYC linked session satisfies this requirement end-to-end from a single POST /v3/session/ workflow.
How long does it take to integrate Didit in Mauritius?
5 minutes to a working sandbox, a weekend to a production flow.
- Sign up at
business.didit.me, grab an API key, callPOST /v3/session/with aworkflow_idthat wires ID Verification + Active Liveness + Face Match + AML, done. - AI-agent path: paste the integration prompt at
docs.didit.me/integration/integration-promptinto Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Devin, Aider, or Replit Agent. The agent provisions the application, builds the workflow, wires the webhook, and runs a smoke test. - Five SDKs share the same session model: Web, iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter.
The first 500 verifications every month are free, forever, pilot the full Mauritius stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.
What does the Mauritius verification cost end-to-end?
Per-module public pricing, pay only for what runs on the session:
- ID Verification,
$0.15per document check. - Passive Liveness,
$0.10. Active Liveness,$0.15. - Face Match 1:1,
$0.05. Face Search 1:N, free. - AML Screening,
$0.20per check. Ongoing AML,$0.07 per user / year. - KYB (registry + UBO + officers), pricing published Q2 2026; contact sales for current enterprise terms.
The full KYC bundle (Identity + Passive Liveness + Face Match + IP Analysis) is `$0.33`, same anchor price worldwide, no Mauritius surcharge. 500 verifications free every month, no credit card. Volume discounts auto-apply above the free tier; Enterprise adds a custom Master Services Agreement (MSA) and data-residency choice.
Infrastructure for identity and fraud.
One API for KYC, KYB, Transaction Monitoring, and Wallet Screening. Integrate in 5 minutes.