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Personnummer cross-checked against the Swedish Police Authority register with biometric face-match — $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Sweden.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Three pressures shape Swedish identity fraud: deepfake and injection attacks on neobank + crypto onboarding rails that grew up alongside BankID, synthetic-identity attempts that exploit the public-register transparency of the personnummer, and AML pressure on Stockholm's high-density payments-and-crypto cluster (Klarna, Tink, Trustly, Goobit). Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • Penningtvättslagen (2017:630)
  • AMLD6
  • MiCA
  • DORA
  • GDPR
  • PSD2
  • eIDAS 2.0
  • Swedish Gambling Act (2018:1138)
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Sweden.

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

    Finansinspektionen — Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority. Supervises banks, payment institutions, EMIs and crypto-asset service providers under Penningtvättslagen (2017:630).

  • Finanspolisen

    The Swedish Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) sitting inside the Swedish Police Authority. Receives every suspicious activity report under Penningtvättslagen.

  • IMY

    Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten — Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection. GDPR supervisor for every identity verification on Swedish residents.

  • Skatteverket

    Swedish Tax Agency. Runs the population register (folkbokföringsregistret) and issues every personnummer — the authoritative source behind Swedish identity verification.

  • Spelinspektionen

    Swedish Gambling Authority. Licenses online casinos and sportsbooks under the Swedish Gambling Act (2018:1138) with mandatory KYC + AML controls.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Sweden 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.

  • Works for every primary Swedish credential — Nationellt identitetskort (EU 2019/1157), Pass (with the chip read on e-Passports), Körkort, and the Uppehållstillståndskort residence permit.
  • Returns the name, personnummer, date of birth, sex, and expiry.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • Nationellt identitetskort
  • Pass — chip read on e-Passport
  • Körkort · Uppehållstillståndskort
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 Swedish watchlists:

  • National Assembly of Sweden — Politically Exposed Persons (Riksdagen) — members of the Swedish parliament (PEP Level 1).
  • Ministry of Employment — Politically Exposed Persons — senior government officials with public-function exposure.
  • Modern Times Group — State-Invested Enterprise register — state-owned and state-affiliated entities under Swedish government oversight.
  • Swedish Gambling Authority (Spelinspektionen) — operator warnings — licensed and unlicensed operator enforcement notices.
  • European Union — Consolidated List of EU Financial Sanctions — EU Council and OFAC-aligned designations.
  • EU Consolidated List of Travel Bans — persons subject to EU travel restrictions.
  • Finansinspektionen (FI) — enforcement decisions and administrative sanctions register — Swedish financial supervisory authority formal sanctions and warnings.
  • Hits are scored by severity — a Riksdag member surfaces as a PEP Level 1, a ministry deputy as PEP Level 2, sanctions as critical.
  • 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.
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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

Cross-check against the Swedish Police Authority register.

Cross-checked against the authoritative civil registry.

  • The Swedish Police Authority check (swe_national_id, $0.28, ~100% coverage) is the authoritative national-ID register lookup with name + DOB + personnummer cross-check.
  • The Swedish phone check (swe_phone, $0.28, ~100% coverage) cross-checks against mobile-network-operator data — useful for fintech onboarding and remittance KYC.
  • The Swedish consumer check (swe_consumer, $0.09, ~10% coverage) hits an aggregated consumer dataset for soft-signal address + name verification.
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Stage 04Cross-check against the Swedish Police Authority register

Cross-check against the Swedish Police Authority register — see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Sweden document Didit accepts.

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

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