Identity verification
built for Lebanon 
Lebanese National ID Card and Passport on one session, screened against Internal Security Forces National Sanctions List and global watchlists — $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.
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How identity verification works in Lebanon.
- Fraud landscape
- Three pressures shape Lebanese identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-ID attacks targeting BdL-licensed payment institutions and money transfer operators amid the ongoing liquidity crisis, National ID Card and Hawiyye template forgery across multiple document generations, and AML pressure on correspondent banking and remittance corridors under SIC designations, OFAC Lebanon sanctions programmes, and US Treasury counter-Hezbollah measures. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- Law No. 318 of 2001 on Anti-Money Laundering (as amended by Law No. 44 of 2015)
- Money and Credit Act — Legislative Decree No. 13513 of 1963 (as amended)
- Law No. 81 of 2018 on Personal Data Protection
- BdL Basic Circular No. 83 on AML/CFT — customer due diligence requirements
- Law No. 547 of 1996 on Counter-Terrorism Financing
- MENAFATF 40 recommendations (FATF-style regional body)
Who supervises identity verification in Lebanon.
BdL
Banque du Liban — Central Bank of Lebanon. Primary prudential supervisor for banks, financial institutions, and money transfer operators under the Money and Credit Act (Legislative Decree No. 13513 of 1963 as amended).
SIC
Special Investigation Commission — Lebanon's Financial Intelligence Unit. Administers Law No. 318 of 2001 on Anti-Money Laundering and maintains Lebanon's national sanctions list; receives Suspicious Transaction Reports.
HBC
Higher Banking Commission — enforces BdL circulars on customer due diligence, AML, and correspondent-banking risk. Issues enforcement actions against non-compliant licensed entities.
ISF
Internal Security Forces — Lebanese national police. Administers the National Sanctions List and law-enforcement designations applicable to financial institutions.
DPA
Data Protection Authority — enforces Law No. 81 of 2018 on Personal Data Protection. Governs how identity verification data is captured, stored, and disclosed on Lebanese residents.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- Lebanese National ID Card (Hawiyye), Passport, Driving Licence, and Residence Permit.
- Returns: full name, civil registry number, date of birth, place of origin, nationality, expiry.
- National ID Card (Hawiyye)
- Passport — NFC chip read on biometric series
- Driving Licence · Residence Permit
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 Lebanon watchlists:
- Internal Security Forces — National Sanctions List — Lebanon's primary law-enforcement designations applicable to financial institutions.
- Special Investigation Commission (SIC) — designated persons — AML-designated entities under Law No. 318 of 2001 on Anti-Money Laundering.
- Banque du Liban — Higher Banking Commission enforcement actions — regulatory sanctions against licensed banks and payment institutions.
- OFAC SDN List — Lebanon Hizballah and Iran sanctions programmes — US Treasury designations targeting terror-financing and sanctions evasion in Lebanon.
- UN Security Council — Consolidated List — ISIL/Al-Qaida and related designations transposed in Lebanon.
- EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions List — Lebanon-specific measures under EU Council regulations.
- MENAFATF regional designated entities — Middle East and North Africa FATF-body guidance and named entities.
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.
Cross-check the identity at scale.
- There is no public government database validation API for Lebanon currently exposed as a standalone Didit service — the Directorate General of Personal Status does not currently offer a public consumer API open to third-party integrators.
The OCR + biometric + AML stack is the authoritative BdL- and SIC-compliant path today: the civil registry number is OCR-parsed from the Hawiyye, the face is matched against the portrait, and the AML stage screens the extracted name against every Lebanese regulatory watchlist. Enterprise customers can talk to sales about registry-linkage options as BdL-authorised data partners onboard.
Cross-check the identity at scale — see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Lebanon document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Lebanon.
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