Identity verification
built for Cyprus 
Ταυτότητα, biometric passport, and EU/EEA documents on one session — EU AMLD6 + GDPR + AML Law 188(I)/2007. CySEC and CBC supervised. $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.
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How identity verification works in Cyprus.
- Fraud landscape
- Two pressures shape Cypriot identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-identity attacks exploiting the high volume of offshore company formation and CASP onboarding that Cyprus attracts as a gateway into the EU single market, and document forgery pressure from third-country nationals seeking EU financial access through Cypriot-licensed institutions. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- AML Law 188(I)/2007 as amended (AMLD6 transposition)
- AMLD6 (EU Directive 2018/843)
- GDPR (Regulation 2016/679)
- MiCA (Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation)
- DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act)
- EU Regulation 2019/1157 (chip ID cards)
Who supervises identity verification in Cyprus.
CySEC
Επιτροπή Κεφαλαιαγοράς (Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission) — supervises investment firms, collective investment schemes, Forex brokers, and Crypto-Asset Service Providers under MiCA. Administers AML obligations for Cyprus Investment Firms under Law 188(I)/2007 as amended.
CBC
Κεντρική Τράπεζα της Κύπρου (Central Bank of Cyprus) — central bank and prudential supervisor for banks, payment institutions, and electronic-money issuers. Sets Customer Due Diligence requirements under Law 188(I)/2007 as amended.
MOKAS
Μονάδα Καταπολέμησης Αδικημάτων Συγκάλυψης (Unit for Combating Money Laundering) — Cyprus's Financial Intelligence Unit, operating under the Attorney General. Receives Suspicious Activity Reports from obligated entities under Law 188(I)/2007.
Commissioner for Personal Data Protection
Επίτροπος Προστασίας Δεδομένων Προσωπικού Χαρακτήρα — Cyprus's supervisory authority for GDPR (Regulation 2016/679). Governs every identity verification on Cypriot residents.
House of Representatives
Βουλή των Αντιπροσώπων — the Cypriot parliament. Senior members are listed as PEP Level 1 in Didit's AML screening layer as required by Law 188(I)/2007 and AMLD6.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- ταυτότητα (the polycarbonate chip ID card under EU Reg. 2019/1157), διαβατήριο (with the chip read on e-Passports), άδεια οδήγησης, and άδεια παραμονής for non-EU residents.
- Returns the name, document number, date of birth, and expiry.
- Ταυτότητα — chip read on polycarbonate card
- Άδεια Οδήγησης · Άδεια Παραμονής
- Διαβατήριο — chip read on e-Passport
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 Cypriot watchlists:
- House of Representatives of Cyprus — PEP Level 1 (Βουλή members).
- U.S. Department of the Treasury — SIP (Cyprus-linked OFAC enforcement designations).
- CySEC Administrative Sanctions — regulatory enforcement actions against Cyprus Investment Firms and CASPs.
- CySEC Warnings — investor alerts and regulatory warnings from the securities regulator.
- EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions List — applies under EU enforcement in Cyprus.
- OFAC Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) — US Treasury designations.
- MONEYVAL — Council of Europe AML evaluation findings for Cyprus.
- UN Security Council Consolidated Sanctions List — global designations.
- Europol Most Wanted — cross-border law enforcement designations.
- Eurojust — EU judicial cooperation designations.
- FATF 40 Recommendations — risk-jurisdiction monitoring.
- Basel AML Index — country-level AML risk scoring referenced in CySEC enhanced-due-diligence frameworks.
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.
Document validation — no public registry API in Cyprus.
Cyprus does not currently expose a public government consumer API open to third-party integrators for cross-checking national ID records against the civil registry or population register. Identity validation in Cyprus therefore relies on three complementary layers that Didit runs in parallel:
- Document OCR + chip read — every field on the ταυτότητα or διαβατήριο is extracted and validated against ISO/ICAO templates in real time.
- Biometric liveness + face match — the selfie is confirmed as live and matched against the document portrait, eliminating synthetic and replay attacks.
- AML screening — the extracted name is screened across 1,300+ global and Cypriot watchlists, catching sanctions, PEPs, and adverse-media hits that a registry lookup would not surface.
If an authoritative database validation API becomes available for Cyprus, Didit will add it to the POST /v3/database-validation/ catalogue automatically — no integration changes required on your side.
Document validation — no public registry API in Cyprus — see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Cyprus document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Cyprus.
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Common questions about Cyprus.
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