Identity verification
built for Paraguay 
Cédula de Identidad cross-checked against the Departamento de Identificaciones in real time — $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month, built for South America's fastest-growing fintech corridor.
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How identity verification works in Paraguay.
- Fraud landscape
- Paraguay's identity fraud landscape is shaped by cédula cloning for e-wallet access, synthetic-identity fraud in the rapidly expanding EMPE sector, and informal cross-border cash corridors with Argentina and Brazil creating money-laundering risk for regulated fintechs. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — deepfake, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- Ley 1015/1997 — Ley de Prevención y Represión de los Actos Ilícitos destinados a la Legitimación de Dinero o Bienes
- Ley 6497/2020 — Reforma de la Ley 1015 (AML/CFT reforms)
- Ley 861/1996 — Ley General de Bancos, Financieras y Otras Entidades de Crédito
- Resolución BCP — Normativa de Entidades de Medios de Pago Electrónico (EMPE)
- GAFILAT 40 Recommendations
- FATF Methodology 2022
Who supervises identity verification in Paraguay.
SEPRELAD
Secretaría de Prevención de Lavado de Dinero o Bienes — Paraguay's AML/CFT supervisory and intelligence authority. Owns suspicious-transaction reporting requirements under Ley 1015/1997 and Ley 6497/2020.
BCP
Banco Central del Paraguay — central bank and prudential supervisor for banks, financieras, and Entidades de Medios de Pago Electrónico (EMPE). Oversees the electronic-payment licensing regime and monetary policy.
SB
Superintendencia de Bancos — the prudential banking arm of the BCP. Sets KYC onboarding requirements and AML supervision for licensed financial institutions.
Departamento de Identificaciones
Departamento de Identificaciones de la Policía Nacional — civil-registry authority. Issues the Cédula de Identidad and maintains the authoritative identity database queried by the `pry_cedula` service.
MADES
Ministerio del Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible — also oversees environmental and reporting compliance relevant to corporate KYB flows. The Ministerio Público (Fiscalía General del Estado) handles criminal enforcement of AML/CFT laws.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the Cédula de Identidad.
Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- Cédula de Identidad (6–10 digit number), Pasaporte (chip read on biometric passports), Cédula de Identidad de Extranjero, Licencia de Conducir, and Cédula de Identidad de Menores.
- Returns the name, CI number, date of birth, sex, and expiry.
- Cédula de Identidad (CI) — 6–10 digit number
- Pasaporte — chip read on biometric e-Passport
- Cédula de Identidad de Extranjero
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 Paraguayan watchlists.
- National Assembly of Paraguay — PEP Level 1 register for legislators
- ADN Paraguayo — ADN Digital — adverse media (SIP)
- SEPRELAD — Secretaría de Prevención de Lavado de Dinero o Bienes enforcement list
- BCP — Banco Central del Paraguay regulatory warnings
- Ministerio Público — Unidad de Delitos Económicos enforcement list
- SB — Superintendencia de Bancos administrative sanctions
- Dirección General de Migraciones — immigration enforcement alerts
- GAFILAT — Group of Financial Action of Latin America mutual evaluations
- FATF — Financial Action Task Force consolidated list
- UN Security Council — consolidated sanctions list
- OFAC SDN — Specially Designated Nationals
- Interpol — regional South America red notices
Hits are scored by severity. Turn on ongoing monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) and Didit re-checks every customer daily, firing a webhook the moment a new hit appears — critical for Ley 6497/2020 periodic-review obligations.
Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media — see the docs for the full module surface.
Cross-check against the Departamento de Identificaciones.
Cross-checked against the authoritative civil registry.
- The `pry_cedula` check (
$0.20per successful query, no end-user consent required) hits the Departamento de Identificaciones de la Policía Nacional directly —document_number(6–10 digits, no hyphens) in, normalised identification fields out:identification_number,first_name,last_name,full_name.
Cross-check against the Departamento de Identificaciones — see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Paraguay document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Paraguay.
Paraguay — Cédula de Identidad verification (Departamento de Identificaciones)
Source: Departamento de Identificaciones de la Policía Nacional — authoritative civil registry. $0.20 per successful query.
AML lists screened in Paraguay
1,300+ sanctions, Politically Exposed Persons (PEP), and adverse-media lists, plus the country's regulatory watchlists and PEP registries.
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Common questions about Paraguay.
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