Identity verification
built for Sierra Leone 
Sierra Leone National ID and Passport on one session, screened against Bank of Sierra Leone, FIU, and global AML watchlists — $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.
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How identity verification works in Sierra Leone.
- Fraud landscape
- Three pressures shape Sierra Leonean identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-ID attacks on mobile-money platforms and the expanding digital-financial sector, National ID card forgery, and cross-border AML risk on the Guinea, Liberia, and West Africa corridors. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism Act 2012 (AML/CFT Act)
- Anti-Corruption Act 2008 (amended 2019)
- National Civil Registration Act 2016
- Telecommunications Act 2006 (data obligations)
- GIABA Mutual Evaluation recommendations
- FATF 40 recommendations
Who supervises identity verification in Sierra Leone.
BSL
Bank of Sierra Leone — central bank and prudential supervisor for commercial banks, microfinance institutions, and payment service providers including mobile-money operators.
FIU
Financial Intelligence Unit — Sierra Leone's Financial Intelligence Unit. Administers the Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism Act 2012 (AML/CFT Act) and receives Suspicious Transaction Reports.
NEC
National Electoral Commission — maintains the national voter-registration database, which serves as a supplementary identity-verification data source for regulated onboarding flows.
NCRA
National Civil Registration Authority — issues and maintains the national biometric ID card and national civil register. The authoritative identity issuer for Sierra Leonean citizens.
ACC
Anti-Corruption Commission Sierra Leone — investigates and prosecutes corruption and economic-crime offences under the Anti-Corruption Act 2008 (amended 2019).
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- National Identity Card (NIC), Passport (MRZ parsed), driving licence, and Voter ID Card as supplementary ID.
- Returns: full name, date of birth, document number, expiry, nationality.
- National Identity Card (NIC)
- Passport — MRZ parsed
- Driving Licence · Voter ID Card
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 Sierra Leonean watchlists:
- National Assembly of Sierra Leone — Members of Parliament (PEP Level 1) and senior executive-branch officials.
- National Elections Commission Sierra Leone — electoral-authority officials (PEP Level 2).
- Ministry of Finance — Sierra Leone — senior ministry officials (PEP Level 2) with financial oversight.
- Ministry of Defense — Sierra Leone — senior defense officials (PEP Level 2).
- Concord Times Communication — adverse-media signals from Sierra Leone's leading news outlet.
- Committee to Protect Journalists — Sierra Leone — press-freedom and adverse-media signals.
- UN Security Council Consolidated Sanctions — active multilateral designations covering Sierra Leone-linked entities.
- OFAC SDN List — US Treasury Specially Designated Nationals with Sierra Leone nexus.
- GIABA — Inter-Governmental Action Group Against Money Laundering in West Africa regional risk signals.
- Basel AML Index — country risk score and associated risk signals.
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.
Database validation.
- There is no public government database validation API for Sierra Leone currently exposed as a standalone Didit service — the National Civil Registration Authority (NCRA) does not currently offer a public consumer API open to third-party integrators.
Database validation — see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Sierra Leone document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Sierra Leone.
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Common questions about Sierra Leone.
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