Identity verification
built for Sweden 
Personnummer cross-checked against the Swedish Police Authority register with biometric face-match — $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.
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How identity verification works in Sweden.
- Fraud landscape
- Three pressures shape Swedish identity fraud: deepfake and injection attacks on neobank + crypto onboarding rails that grew up alongside BankID, synthetic-identity attempts that exploit the public-register transparency of the personnummer, and AML pressure on Stockholm's high-density payments-and-crypto cluster (Klarna, Tink, Trustly, Goobit). Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- Penningtvättslagen (2017:630)
- AMLD6
- MiCA
- DORA
- GDPR
- PSD2
- eIDAS 2.0
- Swedish Gambling Act (2018:1138)
Who supervises identity verification in Sweden.
FI
Finansinspektionen — Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority. Supervises banks, payment institutions, EMIs and crypto-asset service providers under Penningtvättslagen (2017:630).
Finanspolisen
The Swedish Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) sitting inside the Swedish Police Authority. Receives every suspicious activity report under Penningtvättslagen.
IMY
Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten — Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection. GDPR supervisor for every identity verification on Swedish residents.
Skatteverket
Swedish Tax Agency. Runs the population register (folkbokföringsregistret) and issues every personnummer — the authoritative source behind Swedish identity verification.
Spelinspektionen
Swedish Gambling Authority. Licenses online casinos and sportsbooks under the Swedish Gambling Act (2018:1138) with mandatory KYC + AML controls.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- Works for every primary Swedish credential — Nationellt identitetskort (EU 2019/1157), Pass (with the chip read on e-Passports), Körkort, and the Uppehållstillståndskort residence permit.
- Returns the name, personnummer, date of birth, sex, and expiry.
- Nationellt identitetskort
- Pass — chip read on e-Passport
- Körkort · Uppehållstillståndskort
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 Swedish watchlists:
- National Assembly of Sweden — Politically Exposed Persons (Riksdagen) — members of the Swedish parliament (PEP Level 1).
- Ministry of Employment — Politically Exposed Persons — senior government officials with public-function exposure.
- Modern Times Group — State-Invested Enterprise register — state-owned and state-affiliated entities under Swedish government oversight.
- Swedish Gambling Authority (Spelinspektionen) — operator warnings — licensed and unlicensed operator enforcement notices.
- European Union — Consolidated List of EU Financial Sanctions — EU Council and OFAC-aligned designations.
- EU Consolidated List of Travel Bans — persons subject to EU travel restrictions.
- Finansinspektionen (FI) — enforcement decisions and administrative sanctions register — Swedish financial supervisory authority formal sanctions and warnings.
- Hits are scored by severity — a Riksdag member surfaces as a PEP Level 1, a ministry deputy as PEP Level 2, sanctions as critical.
- Turn on ongoing monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) and Didit re-checks every customer daily, firing a webhook the moment a new hit appears.
Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media — see the docs for the full module surface.
Cross-check against the Swedish Police Authority register.
Cross-checked against the authoritative civil registry.
- The Swedish Police Authority check (
swe_national_id,$0.28, ~100% coverage) is the authoritative national-ID register lookup with name + DOB + personnummer cross-check. - The Swedish phone check (
swe_phone,$0.28, ~100% coverage) cross-checks against mobile-network-operator data — useful for fintech onboarding and remittance KYC. - The Swedish consumer check (
swe_consumer,$0.09, ~10% coverage) hits an aggregated consumer dataset for soft-signal address + name verification.
Cross-check against the Swedish Police Authority register — see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Sweden document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Sweden.
Sweden National ID (Swedish Police Authority register)
Source: Swedish Police Authority (Polismyndigheten) — national ID register. $0.28 per successful query. Coverage ~100% of adult population.
Sweden Phone (mobile-network-operator data)
Source: Swedish mobile network operators. $0.28 per successful query. Coverage ~100% of adult population.
Sweden Consumer
Source: Aggregated Swedish consumer dataset. $0.09 per successful query. Coverage ~10% of adult population.
AML lists screened in Sweden
1,300+ sanctions, Politically Exposed Persons (PEP), and adverse-media lists, plus the country's regulatory watchlists and PEP registries.
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Common questions about Sweden.
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