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National Identity Card and Passport on one session, screened against DRC regulatory watchlists — $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Congo - Kinshasa.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Three pressures shape DRC identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-ID attacks on mobile-money operators in Kinshasa and mining-belt towns, Carte d'Identité Nationale forgery amid an ongoing civil-registry reform programme, and AML/sanctions exposure tied to conflict-minerals trade flows and UN-designated armed groups. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • AML/CFT Law 04/016 of 2004 (DRC)
  • BCC Instruction 14 on KYC and due diligence
  • UN Security Council Sanctions Regime (DRC arms embargo — UNSCR 1807/2008 and successors)
  • GABAC mutual-evaluation framework
  • FATF 40 recommendations
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Congo - Kinshasa.

These are the supervisors a Congo - Kinshasa verification flow has to answer to. One Didit hosted flow + one audit log covers every one of them — no separate integration per agency.
  • BCC

    Banque Centrale du Congo — central bank and prudential supervisor for banks, financial institutions, payment service providers, and electronic-money operators in the DRC.

  • CENAREF

    Centre National d'Evaluation, de Traitement et de Renseignements Financiers — DRC's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives and analyses Suspicious Transaction Reports under AML/CFT Law 04/016 of 2004.

  • DGM

    Direction Générale de Migration — issues passports and residence documents; maintains the foreign-national registry. Key identity-document authority for cross-border onboarding flows.

  • ONI

    Office National d'Identification — issues the Carte d'Identité Nationale and maintains the national civil register. Primary authority for Congolese citizen identity.

  • ARPTC

    Autorité de Régulation de la Poste et des Télécommunications du Congo — telecoms regulator overseeing mobile-money operators and digital-payment providers in the DRC.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Congo - Kinshasa database cross-check — composed on one workflow, billed per success, returned in one report.
01 · ID

Capture and read the ID.

Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.

  • Carte d'Identité Nationale, Passport (MRZ-parsed), Driver's Licence, and Carte de Résidence for foreign nationals.
  • Returns: full name, date of birth, document number, expiry, MRZ.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • Carte d'Identité Nationale
  • Passport — MRZ-parsed
  • Driver's Licence · Carte de Résidence
02 · Biometric

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.
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Stage 02Match the face. Prove it's a real person.
  • Selfie on any phone or laptop camera
  • Mobile-handoff QR when the user starts on desktop
03 · AML

Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media.

1,300+ global sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media lists — plus DR Congo watchlists:

  • Cabinet of Ministers (DRC) — PEP Level 2 executive-branch officials.
  • National Assembly and Senate (DRC) — PEP Level 2 legislative officials.
  • Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Foreign Affairs — PEP Level 2 senior ministry officials.
  • Congolese National Police — PEP Level 2 law enforcement officials.
  • Central Bank of the Congo (BCC) — PEP Level 2 regulatory officials.
  • Attorney General's Office — enforcement and prosecution watchlist.
  • Public Procurement Regulatory Authority — Warnings for entities barred from public procurement.
  • Security Council Report (DRC) — Warnings and adverse-media register.
  • UN Security Council Consolidated Sanctions — DRC arms embargo and individual designations (UNSCR 1807/2008 and successors).
  • OFAC SDN List — conflict-minerals and armed-group designations.
  • GABAC — Central Africa regional AML/CFT watchlist.
  • Interpol Central Africa — international law enforcement cooperation register.

Severity-scored. Ongoing monitoring ($0.07/user/yr) re-checks daily and fires a webhook on new hits.

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Stage 03Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media

Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media — see the docs for the full module surface.

04 · Registry

Bind every check to one audited session.

  • There is no public government database validation API for DR Congo currently exposed as a standalone Didit service — the ONI national identity registry does not currently offer a public consumer API open to third-party integrators.
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Stage 04Bind every check to one audited session

Bind every check to one audited session — see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Congo - Kinshasa document Didit accepts.

One row per accepted credential — flag, document name, document type. Live from the Didit Business Console.
Authoritative datasets

Civil-registry and AML coverage for Congo - Kinshasa.

One card per dataset Didit cross-checks against — civil registries on the Database Validation API plus the global AML watchlist pool. Each card links to the technical docs.
Compliant by design

Open a new country in one click. We do the hard work.

We open the local subsidiaries, secure the licenses, run the penetration tests, earn the certifications, and align with every new regulation. To ship verifications in a new country, flip a toggle. 220+ countries live, audited and pen-tested every quarter — the only identity provider an EU member-state government has formally called safer than in-person verification.
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EU financial sandbox
Tesoro · SEPBLAC · BdE
ISO/IEC 27001
Information security · 2026
SOC 2 · Type I
AICPA · 2026
iBeta Level 1 PAD
NIST / NIAP · 2026
GDPR
EU 2016/679
DORA
EU 2022/2554
MiCA
EU 2023/1114
AMLD6 · eIDAS 2.0
EU-aligned by design
FAQ

Common questions about Congo - Kinshasa.

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