Identity verification
built for Brunei 
Brunei Identity Card and biometric passport on one session — face-matched against a live selfie, AML-screened across Autoriti Monetari Brunei Darussalam watchlists and global sanctions lists. $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.
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How identity verification works in Brunei.
- Fraud landscape
- Brunei faces identity-fraud pressures driven by its small, high-income resident population and large migrant-worker influx — fraudulent permanent-resident card claims, cross-border document forgery via the Malaysia-Brunei corridor, and synthetic-ID attacks exploiting the dual citizen/permanent-resident card system. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA 2000) and Amendments
- AMBD Order 2010
- Banking Order 2006
- Personal Data Protection Order 2021 (PDPO)
- APG Mutual Evaluation Framework
- FATF 40 Recommendations
Who supervises identity verification in Brunei.
AMBD
Autoriti Monetari Brunei Darussalam — central bank and integrated financial supervisor for banks, insurance, money service businesses, and capital-market participants. Issues Customer Due Diligence and KYC requirements under the AMBD Order 2010 and Banking Order 2006.
FIU-Brunei
Financial Intelligence Unit — operates under AMBD. Receives Suspicious Transaction Reports and oversees AML/CFT enforcement under the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA 2000) and Common Reporting Standard (CRS).
JFSC
Jersey Financial Services Commission — appears in Didit's Brunei AML watchlist (SIE category) alongside the Brunei National Department of Justice, reflecting Brunei's international financial connectivity and offshore compliance requirements.
National Department of Justice
Issues legal-sector compliance requirements and maintains the Brunei PEP Level 1 register (justice ministry and judiciary officials). Enforces the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA 2000) on reporting entities.
Immigration and National Registration Department
Issues the Brunei Identity Card (Kad Pengenalan) and maintains Brunei's national population registry — the authoritative identity data source for KYC flows.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- Brunei Identity Card (yellow citizen card and purple permanent-resident card), biometric e-Passport (with NFC chip read), Work Pass / Employment Pass, and Driving Licence.
- Returns: full name, date of birth, document number, expiry, MRZ.
- Brunei Identity Card (yellow citizen and purple permanent-resident formats)
- Biometric e-Passport — NFC chip read
- Work Pass / Employment Pass · Driving Licence
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 Brunei watchlists:
- National Department of Justice Brunei — PEP Level 1 (justice ministry and judiciary officials).
- JERSEY - JFSC - Financial Services Commission — SIE (state-invested entity register reflecting Brunei's international financial connectivity).
- Brunei Darussalam Central Bank (AMBD) — Warnings (regulatory enforcement and licensing notices).
- UN Security Council Consolidated Sanctions List — global designations.
- OFAC Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) — US Treasury designations.
- EU Consolidated Sanctions List — European Union designated entities.
- UK HMT Sanctions List — His Majesty's Treasury financial sanctions.
- APG (Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering) — mutual evaluation watchlist.
- FATF 40 Recommendations — high-risk jurisdiction monitoring.
- Interpol Notices — international law-enforcement alerts.
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 for Brunei identities.
- There is no public government database validation API for Brunei currently exposed as a standalone Didit service — the Immigration and National Registration Department civil registry does not currently offer a public consumer API open to third-party integrators.
Database validation for Brunei identities — see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Brunei document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Brunei.
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Common questions about Brunei.
Infrastructure for identity and fraud.
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