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Why conduct international sanctions checks?
- Fast, reliable screening
- Easy integration
- Comprehensive reports
Comply with regulations
We offer a cost-effective solution: an online employment credit check service that is quick, simple and reliable.
Identify potential risks
International pep and sanction checks can help to flag any potential risks associated with doing business (as in employment) with certain individuals.
Mitigate risks
Avoid unintentionally working with individuals.
How do we conduct a Sanction (PEP) check?
The pep screening involves comparing the name of the individual or entity against a variety of sources. If there is a match, further investigation is usually conducted in order to determine whether or not the individual or entity is actually subject to pep lists.
• Database with millions of individuals/entities: we have a proprietary database that includes information on millions of individuals and entities.
• Experienced research: Pescheck has a team of experienced researchers who use a variety of public and private sources to run these checks.
• Comprehensive reports: we are able to provide your organisations with comprehensive (pep) sanction screening reports. We got you covered with automated background checks with a fast turnaround time.

Receive the results in minutes, not days!
Sanction and PEP checks are an important part of any business's due diligence process. By outsourcing this process to Pescheck, businesses can benefit from our expertise and experience in conducting these checks. We use the latest technology and tools to ensure that our checks are accurate and up-to-date.
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We offer a cost-effective solution: a global sanction and pep check service that is quick, simple and reliable.
Save time and resources
Automate this time-consuming process by outsourcing it. We take care of the entire screening procedure as soon as we get information about the candidate.
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We performed more than +300.000 screenings for +1.000 organisations using technology and in-house professionals over the last few years.
Types of background checks
Pescheck offers international background checks for all industries, including technology, healthcare, finance, logistics, recruiting, governments, Aerospace and more. You can verify a candidate's history, even if they've lived, worked, or studied abroad. Whether you want to screen your candidates for the validity of an ID, references, Criminal Record or integrity, everything is possible.
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Check if a candidate is in a bankruptcy or insolvency register.
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Indicates barriers for specific roles and reveals police history.
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Verify an individual's work history, job performance, and other qualifications
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Questions & answers
A Political Exposed Person (PEP) is an individual who has been entrusted with a prominent public function, or who is closely associated with such an individual. PEPs are generally considered to pose a higher risk of corruption and money laundering due to their influential positions and access to large sums of money. As a result, financial institutions are required to take extra measures when dealing with PEPs, such as enhanced due diligence.
PEPs come from a variety of backgrounds, including politics, government, the military, and business. In some cases, their family members may also be considered PEPs. Political Exposed Persons are not necessarily corrupt, but there is a higher risk that they could be involved in illicit activity.
Global sanctions checks are searches of international government databases and are designed to identify people who are prohibited from working in certain roles or sectors. The global sanction check is one element of our comprehensive screening program.
Pescheck uses databases all over the world in which information can be retrieved quickly, reliably, and automatically in +200 countries. The pep and sanctions check allows you to search through all sources of information conveniently and efficiently, current as well as updated daily.
There are four basic fields that every candidate must supply when completing their own personal profile for this process. This includes the full name, data of birth and current address of the candidate. Make sure all relevant data is included, it will help speed up the overall time it takes before you can get your certification.
Pep and sanctions checks are a crucial process to ensure that your company does not have any hidden business relationships with restricted countries or organisations. This will help avoid fines from international legislations in the UK, Europe, US & worldwide.
The sanctions lists often referred to as Anti-Money Laundering (AML) watchlists are a combination of multiple lists from all major sanctioning bodies around the world, our sanctions lists consist of:
You can also download the full document with extra details here: Watchlist-Screening-List-and-Types-International-Pescheck010122
- Politically Exposed Person (PEP)
- Sanction (SAN – includes Current and Previous)
- Regulatory Enforcement List (REL)
- Disqualified Director (UK Only)
- Insolvency (UK & Ireland Only)
- Reputational Risk Exposure (RRE)
- Charities Commission (UK Only)
- Gambling Risk Intelligence (GRI)
- PEP-Linked Business
- State-Owned Enterprise (SOE)
- Corporate Registry
- Profile of Interest (POI)
And includes the global and in-country lists such as:
Any individual or entity that has been reported in official or media sources to be involved in a crime that falls under one or more of the following categories – terrorism, financial crime and fraud, modern slavery, organised crime, bribery and corruption, and cybercrime.
- U.S. sanctions list — Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
The OFAC maintains a lot of lists. The Specially Designated Nationals List (SDN) focuses on particular individuals or groups that are unrelated to a targeted country and includes "individuals and enterprises owned or controlled by, acting for or on behalf of, targeted countries." Additionally, there is a Consolidated Sanctions List that compiles information from numerous other non-SDN databases.
- EU sanctions list
– The EU provides an online interactive tool that includes:
- Countries with restrictive measures
- People, organizations and entities on sanction lists
- Legal acts for specific restrictive measures
- Restrictive measures guidelines
- UK sanctions list — Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI)
- UN | United Nations' sanction list All people and organisations covered by sanctions imposed by the U.N. Security Council are listed on the U.N. Security Council Consolidated List. On the Consolidated List as of March 7, 2022, there were 256 entities and 703 persons.
- DNB | Sanctions and terrorism lists by the Dutch National Government