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TABLE OF CONTENTS

• International Fraud/Sanctions searches
• Global Fraud/Sanctions – Ruling Out Profile Matches

This wide-ranging check establishes whether an individual's or a company's name appears in association with anything from criminal activity and international sanctions, through to regulatory penalties and Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs). 

International Fraud/Sanctions searches

The International Fraud / Sanctions search will return possible potential matches for fraud or sanctions. In order to help you rule out these matches, we would advise to follow the below steps: 

    1. What is the nature of the result? If the entity was your candidate, would this be a problem? This is relevant for results under the category of Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs). e.g. If someone is listed as the son of a Member of Parliament, is there any conflict of interest between this and the work that the candidate will do?

    2. Check photograph – for likeness, obvious age difference, etc. 

    3. Identifiers - Use the passport, driving licence, birth certificate or other identity documents to eliminate matches. 

    4. Double Check, for example:

• How a name is spelled.  
• Middle names.
• Visas (could the candidate have travelled to a country mentioned in the match?)
• Place of birth. 

    5. Check the date that the match was ‘Last Updated’. How old was the candidate on that date? For example, if the match was last updated in April 2005 and the candidate’s year of birth is 1990, then they are unlikely to be the CEO found guilty of fraud.

    6. What was your candidate doing at this time? Check what references you have received for the candidate and what dates these confirm employment/study. For example, the referee confirmed the candidate as studying in Australia when the match states they would have been in prison?   

    7. Check ‘source links’ for other potential date matches: 

For example, the individual committed an offence in 2005 in Australia but your candidate was 15 years old in school in the U.K.. Or the entity got married in 1977, but your candidate was born in 1970. 

    8. If the report shows that other documents are available, ask Verifile for these as they can occasionally allow better understanding of the context. 

    9. Internet It is sometimes possible to find more details on the entity or ‘story’ by searching the internet.  

Global Fraud/Sanctions – Ruling Out Profile Matches 

 1. Type of result

What is the nature of the result? If the entity was your candidate, would this be a problem? This is particularly relevant for results under the category of Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs). E.g. If someone is listed as the son of a Member of Parliament, is there any conflict of interest between this and the work that candidate will do?  

For future reference, you can focus profile matches on particular datasets.   

 3. Identifiers

Use the passport, driving licence, birth certificate or other identity documents to eliminate matches.

 4. Double check

• Name spellings
• Middle names
• Visas (could the candidate have travelled to a country mentioned in the match?)  – Place of birth

 5. Last updated

Check the date that the match was ‘Last Updated’. How old was the candidate on that date? For example, if the match was last updated in April 2005 and the candidate’s year of birth is 1990, then they are unlikely to be the CEO found guilty of fraud.  

 6. What were they doing? 

Check what references have been received for the candidate and what dates these confirm employment/study. For example, is he confirmed as studying in Australia when the match states they would have been in prison?  

 7. Source links

Check “source links” for other possible date matches:

For example, the entity committed an offence in 2005 in Australia but your candidate was 15 years old in school in the UK. Or the entity got married in 1977 but your candidate was born in 1970.

 8. Internet

It is sometimes possible to find more details on the entity or ‘story’ by searching the internet.  

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