Criminal watchlist screening
Criminal & wanted-list screening beyond sanctions
Official criminal and wanted lists — including FBI, Interpol Red Notices, Europol and national crime agencies — screened alongside sanctions and PEP in the standard AML check.
Interpol Red Notices
Live lookup · notice active
FBI Most Wanted
No match
Europol Most Wanted
No match
All lists checked
Alongside sanctions & PEP
The problem
Clean on sanctions, wanted by the police
Criminal watchlist screening is the process of checking a person or company against law-enforcement and wanted lists — the notices published by police forces, national crime agencies and Interpol — for people sought in connection with crime. It sits alongside sanctions and PEP screening and catches exposure that neither of those lists covers.
Sanctions and PEP lists answer different questions: is this party prohibited, and are they politically exposed. Neither tells you whether a counterparty is actively wanted for fraud, trafficking or corruption by a national police force. Law-enforcement interest is often the earliest hard signal — it can appear months before a formal sanctions designation — yet most screening tools never look for it, leaving a blind spot exactly where cross-border risk concentrates.
The lists we screen
A representative selection of the official criminal and wanted lists screened on every check, spanning national police forces, crime agencies and Interpol.
| List / notice | Authority | Jurisdiction |
|---|---|---|
| FBI Most Wanted | Federal Bureau of Investigation | United States |
| Interpol Red Notices | Interpol (live lookup) | International |
| Europol Most Wanted | Europol | European Union |
| Wanted persons | UK National Crime Agency | United Kingdom |
| Wanted persons | Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) | Germany |
| Wanted persons | Netherlands Politie | Netherlands |
| Wanted persons | South African Police Service | South Africa |
| Wanted persons | Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) | Hong Kong |
A sample of the official criminal and wanted lists screened on every check. Coverage as of June 2026.
How criminal watchlist screening works
Criminal lists, a live Interpol lookup, and criminal exposure checked by default — not a paid add-on.
Criminal lists, checked by default
Criminal exposure does not appear on sanctions or PEP lists — it lives on law-enforcement and wanted registers. ScreenVeritAI screens official criminal and wanted lists on every check, alongside sanctions and PEP, at no extra step and no separate module. The set spans national police and crime agencies across multiple regions — the FBI, Europol, the UK National Crime Agency, Germany's BKA, the Netherlands Politie, the South African Police Service and Hong Kong's ICAC among them. Because the check runs by default, a counterparty wanted by a foreign police force surfaces in the same screening that clears them on sanctions, rather than requiring you to know which register to query. Every hit is traceable to the issuing authority and its published notice.
Interpol Red Notices with live lookup
Interpol Red Notices are among the most important criminal signals for cross-border business, but they change constantly as notices are issued and withdrawn. Rather than matching against a stale copy, ScreenVeritAI performs a live lookup against Interpol Red Notices at screening time, so a match reflects the current state of the notice, not a snapshot from an earlier refresh. A Red Notice is a request to locate and provisionally arrest a person pending extradition — a strong risk signal that warrants enhanced due diligence. When a candidate matches, the result links to the issuing detail so your analyst can review the notice itself and record the basis for a decision, rather than acting on an unexplained flag.
Screening beyond sanctions and PEP
Most screening vendors stop at sanctions and PEP, leaving a gap: a person can be clean on every sanctions list yet actively wanted for fraud, trafficking or corruption by a national police force. ScreenVeritAI screens criminal exposure by default, so that gap closes without you buying or configuring anything extra. This matters most for cross-border trade, correspondent relationships and high-value onboarding, where law-enforcement interest is often the earliest hard signal — appearing before a formal sanctions designation ever lands. The criminal lists run in every product that checks lists, from the deterministic Quick Check through Deep Research, and combine with sanctions and PEP into one result your team reviews together rather than three separate lookups.
Criminal screening is included — pay per check or by monthly pack
All lists run on every check, not sold as a separate module — included from €0.79. Choose the level each case needs and pay as you go with no monthly commitment, or draw checks from a monthly pack for predictable billing. No monthly platform fee either way.
Quick Check
Criminal lists included — €0.79
Full Search
Deep Research Report
No monthly platform fee. Pay only for the checks and reports you run.
ScreenVeritAI supports compliance review and due diligence documentation. Final decisions remain with your team.
Works together with
Criminal screening runs in the same check as every other domain.