The Office of Foreign Assets Control (‘OFAC’) of the US Department of the Treasury administers and enforces economic and trade sanctions based on US foreign policy and national security goals against targeted foreign countries, terrorists, international narcotics traffickers and those engaged in activities related to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. OFAC acts under presidential wartime and national emergency powers, as well as authority granted by specific legislation, to impose controls on transactions and freeze foreign assets under US jurisdiction. Many of the sanctions are based on United Nations and other international mandates, are multilateral in scope, and involve close cooperation with allied governments.
Description
Global Homeland Security Search – Database
A database compiled from lists provided by U.S. and various international governmental agencies of individuals who may be involved in terrorist activities, money laundering, illegal imports, fraud against government agencies, violations of federal banking regulations, and fugitives from justice. Information may include date of birth, place of birth, citizenship, employment or group membership or affiliation. Please see the jurisdiction notes below for specific coverage, limitations, and sources.
Includes: Australian Reserve Bank Sanctions List; Bank of England Sanctions List; Debarred Parties List; Denied Persons List; European Union Terrorism Sanctions List; FDA List; Fugitive Lists- FBI Most Wanted, U.S. Marshals Most Wanted, Secret Service Most Wanted, and the DEA Fugitives list; Health and Human Services Exclusion List; Interpol Most Wanted; OFAC; Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS); OFSI (Canadian Sanctions List); Palestinian Legislative Council List; Politically Exposed Persons List; United Nations Consolidated Sanctions List; US General Services Administration Excluded Parties List; World Bank Listing of Ineligible Individuals.
Search Scope
Matching Criteria Global records are searched using the first two letters of the first name and a fuzzy match on the last name. Name matching records with matching full DOB, matching partial DOB, or no DOB are returned.
A fuzzy last name match will ignore spaces, apostrophes, and hyphens in determining a match (e.g. O’Malley would match inputs of O Malley, O-Malley, or Omalley).
Note- Broadening search scope may produce large hit lists of false-positives. Record retrieval is limited to 1,000 per search. Limiting search scope may omit positive hits.
Agency |
Global Homeland Security Search – Data Source Descriptions |
Australian Reserve Bank Sanctions List |
Description: List published by Australian Reserve bank in an effort to freeze the assets of known terrorists. The list includes individuals listed in the UN Consolidated list, plus unique individuals designated by Australia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs. List may include DOB. |
Bank of England Sanctions List |
Description: List published by The Bank of England, the central bank of the United Kingdom, containing the names of individuals against which financial sanctions have been imposed. Targets have been listed by the United Nations, European Union and United Kingdom under legislation relating to Al-Qaida & Taliban, Burma/Myanmar, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia & Serbia, Iraq, Liberia, Terrorism and Zimbabwe. List contains detailed information about each entity, may include name, address and DOB. |
Debarred Parties List |
Description: National Security Debarred List consists of persons (including entities and individuals) who have been convicted of violating or conspiracy to violate the Arms Export Control Act (AECA). These persons are prohibited from participating directly or indirectly in the export of defense articles (including technical data) and defense services. This list is a subset of persons who may be “debarred” or ineligible to participate in the export of defense articles and defense services. Name only search, no age or DOB is provided. |
Denied Persons List |
Description: Data from the U.S. Department of Commerce on persons whose export Privileges are denied by federal written order. |
European Union Terrorism Sanctions List |
Description: List, maintained by the European Union, of known terrorists subject to financial sanctions. List may include DOB. |
FDA List |
Description: FDA list of 190 persons from the Disqualified Totally Restricted List and Office of Regulatory Affairs Debarment List. FDA may disqualify a clinical investigator if the clinical investigator has repeatedly or deliberately failed to comply with applicable regulatory requirements or the clinical investigator has repeatedly or deliberately submitted false information to the sponsor or, if applicable, to FDA. |
Fugitive List |
Description: Data from compiled lists containing information on over 600 fugitives including the names, aliases, year of birth, place of birth and possible residence. Information is taken from the FBI Most Wanted, U.S. Marshals Most Wanted, Secret Service Most Wanted, and the DEA Fugitives list. |
Health and Human Services Exclusion List |
Description: Office of the Inspector General List of 34,855 individuals excluded from participation in Federally – funded health care programs dating back to 1980. Results may include name, address, DOB, professional classification, professional specialty, exclusion type, exclusion date and reinstatement date. |
Interpol Most Wanted |
Description: The persons concerned are wanted by national jurisdictions (or the International Criminal Tribunals, where appropriate) and Interpol’s role is to assist the national police forces in identifying or locating those persons with a view to their arrest and extradition. |
OFAC |
Description: The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) administers a series of laws that impose economic sanctions against hostile targets to further U.S. foreign policy and national security objectives. This listing contains the names and descriptor information on those persons identified by the United States to pose a threat to the interests and security of the United States. This data file also includes narcotics traffickers, terrorists, and business and organizations supporting threatening activities. |
Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) |
Description: The Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) is the primary regulator of all federally chartered and many state-chartered thrift institutions. The OTS enforcement actions list is a directory of actions levied against institution-affiliated parties, officers, directors and controlling shareholders of such entities and others. |
OFSI (Canadian Sanctions List) |
Description: List of names, maintained by Canada’s Office of the Superintendent of financial Institutions, of individuals sanctioned under new Canadian and United Nations anti-terrorism measures. List may include DOB. |
Palestinian Legislative Council List |
Description The data consists of PLC members who were elected on the party slate of an Foreign Terrorist Organization, Specially Designated Terrorist or Specially Designated Global Terrorist. They do not, however, appear on the Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List. Transactions involving these individuals must be rejected. |
Politically Exposed Persons List |
Description: The Central Intelligence Agency publishes names of persons who may have politically damaging information in the public view. The directory is intended to be used primarily as a reference aid and includes as many governments of the world as is considered practical, some of them not officially recognized by the United States. Regimes with which the United States has no diplomatic exchanges are indicated by the initials NDE. Politically Exposed Persons List data may include position, position holder, and country. DOB is not available. List is updated monthly. |
United Nations Consolidated Sanctions List |
Description: List of individuals upon whom United Nations Sanctions have been imposed based on new anti-terrorism measures. List may include DOB. |
US General Services Administration Excluded Parties List |
Description: List of 50,634 parties excluded from Federal Procurement and Nonprocurement Programs. Identifies those parties excluded, throughout the U.S. Government, from receiving Federal contracts or certain subcontracts and from certain types of Federal financial and nonfinancial assistance and benefits. |
World Bank Listing of Ineligible Individuals |
Description: List of individuals who are ineligible to be awarded World Bank-financed contacts because of violation of the bank’s fraud and corruption policies. |
