Identity verification
built for Suriname 
Surinamese Identity Card and Passport verified with biometric liveness and AML screening across 1,300+ global lists — $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month, built for the Dutch Caribbean financial corridor.
Trusted by 2,000+ organizations worldwide.
How identity verification works in Suriname.
- Fraud landscape
- Suriname faces identity fraud pressures from cross-border gold-mining economy flows, synthetic-identity fraud targeting cooperative and micro-finance onboarding, and PEP risk through the Parliament of Suriname network and state-owned enterprise directors. The aviation-sector wanted-person list is a unique Surinamese enforcement watchlist with cross-border significance. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — deepfake, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- Wet Melding Ongebruikelijke Transacties (MOT Act) — Unusual Transactions Reporting Act
- Wet Identificatie bij Dienstverlening — Customer Identification Act
- Bankwet 2019 — Banking Act
- Wet op de Financiële Markten Suriname — Capital Markets Act
- CFATF Mutual Evaluation
- FATF Methodology 2022
Who supervises identity verification in Suriname.
CBvS
Centrale Bank van Suriname — central bank and prudential supervisor for banks, money-services businesses, and insurance firms. Sets KYC and AML onboarding requirements under the Wet Melding Ongebruikelijke Transacties (MOT Act).
FMU
Financiële Meldpunt (Financial Reporting Centre) — Suriname's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives unusual-transaction reports under the MOT Act and coordinates with CFATF on enforcement.
AFMS
Autoriteit Financiële Markten Suriname — capital-market and securities supervisor. Oversees investment firms, brokers, and collective-investment schemes.
CFATF
Caribbean Financial Action Task Force — the FATF-style regional body. Suriname is a member and subject to mutual evaluation and follow-up under FATF methodology.
Burgerzaken
Civil Affairs Department — issues the Identiteitskaart (Identity Card) and maintains the authoritative civil-registry database for Surinamese nationals.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the Identiteitskaart or Paspoort.
Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- Identiteitskaart (national ID), Paspoort (chip read on biometric passports), Verblijfsvergunning, and Rijbewijs.
- Returns: full name, date of birth, document number, expiry, nationality.
- Identiteitskaart — Surinamese national identity card
- Paspoort — chip read on biometric e-Passport
- Verblijfsvergunning (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 Suriname watchlists:
- Parliament of Suriname — PEP Level 1 legislative register
- Aviation Analysis Suriname — wanted-person warnings
- FMU — Financiële Meldpunt (Financial Reporting Centre) enforcement list
- CBvS — Centrale Bank van Suriname administrative sanctions
- AFMS — Autoriteit Financiële Markten Suriname warnings
- CFATF — Caribbean Financial Action Task Force mutual evaluations
- FATF — Financial Action Task Force consolidated list
- UN Security Council — consolidated sanctions list
- OFAC SDN — Specially Designated Nationals
- Interpol — South America region red notices
- FinCEN — Financial Crimes Enforcement Network advisories
- Basel AML Index — Suriname country risk tier
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.
Database validation against the Burgerzaken registry.
- There is no public government database validation API for Suriname currently exposed as a standalone Didit service — the Burgerzaken (Civil Affairs Department) does not currently offer a public consumer API open to third-party integrators.
Database validation against the Burgerzaken registry — see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Suriname document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Suriname.
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Common questions about Suriname.
Infrastructure for identity and fraud.
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