Identity verification
built for Mauritius 
National ID Card and Passport on one session, screened against Mauritian FSC and BOM watchlists — $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.
Trusted by 2,000+ organizations worldwide.
How identity verification works in Mauritius.
- Fraud landscape
- Three pressures shape Mauritian identity fraud: sophisticated shell-company and beneficial-ownership obfuscation targeting the IFC sector, deepfake attacks on the growing fintech and crypto-asset trading platforms, and cross-border investment-fraud schemes exploiting the Mauritius–India and Mauritius–Africa double-tax treaty network. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- Financial Intelligence and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2002 (FIAMLA) — as amended 2020
- Data Protection Act 2017 (Mauritius)
- FSC Mauritius Guidelines on KYC / AML for Global Business Companies
- Bank of Mauritius AML/CFT Guidance Notes for Banks and non-Bank Deposit-Taking Institutions
- FATF 40 recommendations (Mauritius — full FATF member, no grey-list exposure)
Who supervises identity verification in Mauritius.
FSC
Financial Services Commission Mauritius — omnibus regulator for non-banking financial services: global business companies, investment funds, fintech licence holders, virtual-asset service providers, insurance, and capital markets.
BoM
Bank of Mauritius — central bank and prudential supervisor for banks, payment-service providers, and electronic-money issuers. Issues the BoM KYC/AML Guidelines binding on all licensed banks.
FIU Mauritius
Financial Intelligence Unit Mauritius — operates under FIAMLA 2002 (Financial Intelligence and Anti-Money Laundering Act). Receives Suspicious Transaction Reports and co-operates with Egmont Group partners worldwide.
DPA Office
Data Protection Office Mauritius — enforces the Data Protection Act 2017. Governs the collection, processing, and cross-border transfer of personal data including identity-verification records.
ESAAMLG
Eastern and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering Group — Mauritius is a founding member in good standing. ESAAMLG mutual evaluations set the regional AML/CFT baseline Mauritius is measured against.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- National Identity Card (NICO-issued, with the National ID Number), Passport (with the chip read on e-Passports), Driver's Licence, and Permanent Resident / Residence Permits for foreign investors and residents.
- Returns: full name, date of birth, document number, expiry, MRZ.
- National Identity Card
- Passport — chip read on e-Passport
- Driver's Licence · Permanent Resident 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 Mauritius watchlists:
- National Assembly of Mauritius — PEP Level 1 elected legislative officials.
- MUFSC (Mauritius Financial Services Commission) — SIP regulatory enforcement and watchlist register.
- Corporate and Business Registration Department (CBRD) — Warnings for entities barred or flagged in the Mauritian company registry.
- FIU Mauritius — STR enforcement register for Mauritius-flagged entities.
- ESAAMLG — Eastern and Southern Africa AML Group regional watchlist.
- FATF — Financial Action Task Force global standards watchlist (Mauritius is a full member).
- Interpol East Africa — international law enforcement cooperation register.
- Basel AML Index — Mauritius country-risk scoring.
- OFAC SDN List — global designations including offshore financial-centre nexus.
- EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions List — EU designations applicable to Mauritius-based 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.
Bind every check to one audited session.
- There is no public government database validation API for Mauritius currently exposed as a standalone Didit service — the NICO national ID registry does not currently offer a public consumer API open to third-party integrators.
Bind every check to one audited session — see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Mauritius document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Mauritius.
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Common questions about Mauritius.
Infrastructure for identity and fraud.
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