UN & UK OFSI Sanctions Screening Scraper (AML / KYB Watchlist)

Browse, filter and screen names against two official, public-domain sanctions lists in one place: the UN Security Council Consolidated List and the UK OFSI (HM Treasury) Consolidated List. Every sanctioned person, entity and vessel is normalized into a single clean schema with aliases, dates of birth, nationalities, identity documents, regime and listing dates, so you can run compliance screening for onboarding, KYB, AML and payment checks.

Two modes:

• List browse or filter the full consolidated lists.
• Screen submit your own person or company names and get fuzzy matches against every listed party and alias, scored 0 to 1.

What you get

Here is one real record from List mode:

{
  "mode": "list",
  "id": "6907993",
  "source": "UN",
  "entityType": "Individual",
  "name": "ERIC BADEGE",
  "aliases": [],
  "aliasCount": 0,
  "dateOfBirth": "1971",
  "placeOfBirth": null,
  "nationalities": ["Democratic Republic of the Congo"],
  "countries": ["Rwanda"],
  "addresses": ["Rwanda"],
  "identifiers": [],
  "regime": "DRC",
  "referenceNumber": "CDi.001",
  "listedOn": "2012-12-31",
  "designationReason": "He fled to Rwanda in March 2013 and is still living there as of early 2016.",
  "sourceUrl": "https://scsanctions.un.org/consolidated/",
  "observedAt": "2026-08-17T07:00:00.000Z",
  "error": null
}

And one real result from Screen mode (checking the name "Vladimir Putin"):

{
  "mode": "screen",
  "inputName": "Vladimir Putin",
  "matched": true,
  "matchCount": 1,
  "matches": [
    {
      "source": "UK-OFSI",
      "name": "Vladimir Vladimirovich PUTIN",
      "matchedAlias": "Vladimir PUTIN",
      "entityType": "Individual",
      "regime": "Russia",
      "referenceNumber": "14196",
      "id": "14196",
      "score": 1
    }
  ],
  "observedAt": "2026-08-17T07:00:00.000Z",
  "error": null
}

A name with no hit returns a clean "matched": false row (never an error), so you can log a full audit trail of every name you screened.

Input

Field	Type	Description
mode	string	list (browse and filter) or screen (match your own names). Default list.
names	array	Screen mode. Person or company names to check against the combined lists.
minScore	number	Screen mode. Minimum similarity (0 to 1) for a fuzzy match. Default 0.85.
source	string	both, UN or UK-OFSI. Default both.
entityType	string	List mode. all, Individual, Entity or Vessel.
nameContains	string	List mode. Keep records whose name or any alias contains this text.
country	string	List mode. Filter by nationality, country of birth or address country.
regime	string	List mode. Filter by sanctions regime or UN list type (for example Russia, DRC, ISIL).
maxEntries	integer	List mode. Max records to return.
withAiRisk	boolean	Optional paid AI add-on. Adds a plain-English compliance risk note. Off by default.

Output

Field	Description
id	Source record id (UN DATAID or UK OFSI Group ID).
source	UN or UK-OFSI.
entityType	Individual, Entity or Vessel.
name	Primary full name of the sanctioned party.
aliases	Known aliases and other names.
dateOfBirth / placeOfBirth	Birth details for individuals.
nationalities / countries	Nationalities and associated countries.
addresses	Listed addresses.
identifiers	Passport and national ID documents with type and number.
regime	Sanctions regime (UK) or UN list type.
referenceNumber	UN reference number or UK sanctions list reference.
listedOn	Date the party was listed or designated.
designationReason	Reason, position or narrative for the designation.
inputName / matched / matchCount / matches	Screen mode: your submitted name and its scored matches.
aiRiskWho / aiWhyListed / aiRegime / aiRiskLevel	Optional AI risk note (paid add-on).
sourceUrl, observedAt, error	Provenance and run metadata.

Use cases

• Sanctions screening of customers, suppliers and counterparties against the UN and UK OFSI lists.
• AML and KYB onboarding checks and periodic re-screening of your existing book.
• UN and UK watchlist monitoring for banks, fintechs, crypto exchanges, law firms and marketplaces.
• PEP and adverse-party review feeding names into a wider compliance workflow.
• Payment and trade screening to flag sanctioned individuals, entities and vessels before you transact.
• Building or enriching your own compliance database with clean, normalized sanctions data.

Billing

This actor uses pay per event:

• result $0.015 per record. One sanctioned record in List mode, or one screened name with its matches in Screen mode. Charged only on a successful result.
• AI compliance risk note $0.012 per note (opt in via withAiRisk). A plain-English risk note for a matched party. Charged only when usable AI output is produced.

Failed runs are never charged. Free Apify plans are capped at 10 results per run.

Data sources and licensing

Data comes only from the official public-domain primary sources: the UN Security Council Consolidated List and the UK OFSI (HM Treasury) Consolidated List. This actor does not redistribute any non-commercial aggregated dataset, so its output is safe to use commercially. Sanctions lists change frequently; always confirm a positive match against the official source before acting on it.

This actor complements our OFAC Sanctions Scraper and EU Consolidated Sanctions List Scraper so you can cover US, EU, UN and UK regimes across your compliance stack.