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Identity verification
built for Sierra Leone Flag of 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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Country brief

How identity verification works in Sierra Leone.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
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
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Sierra Leone.

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

  • 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).

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Sierra Leone 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.

  • 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.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • National Identity Card (NIC)
  • Passport, MRZ parsed
  • Driving Licence · Voter ID Card
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 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.

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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

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.
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Stage 04Database validation

Database validation , see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Sierra Leone 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 Sierra Leone.

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 Sierra Leone

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 Sierra Leone.

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, Know Your Business (KYB), Transaction Monitoring, and Wallet Screening (KYT, know your transaction). A KYB session spawns a linked KYC for every Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO); a flagged transaction spawns a step-up KYC remediation, same session, same webhook contract, same audit trail. Single-product vendors sell one shape of KYC and stop there.
  • AI-era fraud. 200+ real-time fraud signals scored on every session, deepfake, injection, synthetic-ID, document forgery, face-morph, device intelligence, replay. Single-product vendors treat deepfake and injection detection as roadmap items, not defaults.

Common in fintech and crypto, the same architecture fits marketplaces, iGaming, mobility, 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 Sierra Leone regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?

Four bodies govern every Sierra Leonean identity-verification flow:

  • Bank of Sierra Leone (BSL), central bank and prudential supervisor for banks, microfinance institutions, and payment service providers.
  • Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), 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.
  • National Civil Registration Authority (NCRA), issues and maintains the national biometric ID card and authoritative civil register underpinning every KYC flow.
  • Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), investigates corruption and economic-crime offences under the Anti-Corruption Act 2008 (amended 2019).

Didit ships the hosted flow + the audit log + the watchlist coverage to satisfy all four at the same time, same POST /v3/session/ workflow, same JSON report, same SOC 2 Type 1 + ISO/IEC 27001 evidence pack.

How long does it take to integrate Didit in Sierra Leone?

5 minutes to a working sandbox, a weekend to a production flow.

  • Sign up at business.didit.me, grab an API key, call POST /v3/session/ with a workflow_id that wires ID Verification + Passive Liveness + Face Match + AML, done.
  • AI-agent path: paste the integration prompt at docs.didit.me/integration/integration-prompt into Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Devin, Aider, or Replit Agent.
  • 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 Sierra Leone stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.

What does the Sierra Leone verification cost end-to-end?

Per-module public pricing, pay only for what runs on the session:

  • ID Verification, $0.15 per document check.
  • Passive Liveness, $0.10. Active Liveness, $0.15.
  • Face Match 1:1, $0.05. Face Search 1:N, free.
  • AML Screening, $0.20 per check. Ongoing AML, $0.07 per user / year.

The full KYC bundle (Identity + Passive Liveness + Face Match + IP Analysis) is `$0.33`, same anchor price worldwide, no Sierra Leone surcharge. 500 verifications free every month, no credit card.

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