
Sanctions lists
Easy worldwide verification of companies and physical persons

CONTROL
FROM RUSSIA
Public funds must not flow to Russian owners, regardless of sanctions lists.

DATA
IN ONE PLACE
Daily updated lists from CZ, EU, USA, and 20 more.

OWNERSHIP
STRUCTURES
Sanctions lists aren’t enough. We also screen executives and owners.

CHANGE MONITOR
STAY INFORMED
We remember who you've screened and alert you if they appear on a sanctions list.
All in one place
Datlab Sanctions screen legal entities and natural persons against sanctions lists from CZ, EU, USA, and 20 other countries. For legal entities, 99% of risks are caused by individuals in the ownership structure, which is why we automatically screen ownership structures as well. We monitor newly emerged risks automatically, so each business partner only needs to be screened once.


Sanctions Lists: EU, CZ, USA & 20 More

Global Ownership Structures

Direct and ultimate owners

Cyrillic transliterations and name variants

Automatic change monitoring

API and integration with SAP, CRM, and other systems

Batch screening

Sanctioned addresses

Unlimited number of user accounts

PDF certificate after each verification

Ownership Structures
When screening sanctions lists, it is essential to focus not only on the companies themselves but also on their managers, direct and indirect owners. This requirement stems from the EU sanctions regulation and is further explained in the FAQs of the European Commission and the Financial Analytical Office. Our own findings confirm that in the EU, 99% of the risks are linked to individuals in the ownership structure — not to the fact that the company itself appears on a sanctions list.
In practice, when verifying company ABC, we check not only whether the company itself appears on any sanctions list, but also examine its executives, direct, and ultimate owners. Below is an example of a German company whose parent company is based in Russia. Neither of these companies is listed on any sanctions list. However, the Russian parent is owned by a company on the Ukrainian sanctions list, which is in turn owned by individuals listed on the U.S. sanctions list. Datlab Sanctions therefore flags the German company as high-risk, thanks to access to German and Russian registry data that allow us to uncover such connections.
Control from Russia
Contracting authorities and suppliers of above-threshold public contracts, as well as EU subsidy recipients, are subject to significantly stricter regulation — specifically Articles 5k and 5l of Regulation 833/2014. They must not make payments to any persons controlled from Russia or by Russians, i.e., persons controlled by the Russian Federation. That’s why Datlab Sanctions flags such control as a risk, including a specification of whom the risk is legally relevant for. For other users, it is a non-binding indication.


Change Monitor
Sanctions lists and ownership structures are constantly evolving. Legislation restricts trade with sanctioned entities (and their affiliates) based on their current status. For example, if you sign a contract with company ABC in 2024 and its owner is added to a sanctions list in 2025, you will be prohibited from paying their invoices, regardless of the contract. Datlab Sanctions monitors such changes automatically — if you screened ABC last year, we’ll email you as soon as we detect a new risk.
Sanctions lists are updated daily. The EU list is often updated several days in advance of the official source (after a sanctions package is announced, it typically takes 5–15 days for it to appear on sanctionsmap.eu). Updates to ownership structures may be delayed due to different registry procedures and registration timeframes (worldwide).
Where our global data comes from
Thanks to our cooperation with MOODY’S and CRIF, we have access to ownership structure data for companies from more than 150 countries, including Russia and China. The information is obtained from official registers via local partners — including private and paid databases. This makes it possible to identify long ownership chains spanning 10 or more jurisdictions — for example, companies based in Cyprus are often an intermediary in the EU.
Even so, we cannot guarantee that we have information on every company in the world. Data from providers and source registries may sometimes lag behind reality or be incomplete (typically, for example, in Arab countries or Africa). In such cases, Datlab Sanctions issues a confirmation including a note about the data being incomplete — if more thorough verification is needed, local partners must be asked to supply proof of ownership. In other cases, the findings (even if incomplete) can be considered sufficient, as the certificate confirms the client's reasonable effort to verify the business partner.


Sanctioned addresses
A specific feature of U.S. sanctions lists is the inclusion of so-called sanctioned addresses — shared office locations where hundreds of companies are registered. Datlab Sanctions flags companies at these addresses as a risk — directly relevant for entities trading with the U.S., but we also recommend increased attention to sanction circumvention risks for companies operating in the EU.
The photo shows Unit 04, 7/F Bright Way Tower, Hong Kong. More than 500 companies are registered at this address. While they are not directly listed on any sanctions list, some U.S. restrictions still apply to them.
Name variants and Cyrillic transliterations
Transcriptions of Russian names into Latin script often appear in various forms in registries — differing based on national conventions, submitted documentation, and other circumstances. For example, the name Дмитрий commonly appears as Dmitri, Dmitrii, Dmitry, Dmitrij, Dmytro, etc. The situation is even more complex with surnames, patronymics (“middle”) names, or names of legal entities.
For each sanctioned person, we therefore work with several different name variations, including approximate matches with 1–2 typos, with or without a patronymic name, etc. The same applies to dates of birth — the exact date is often unknown, or multiple different birth dates may appear for the same person across various sanctions lists.
Thanks to fuzzy matching, the service has a significantly higher likelihood of detecting risks and thus provides better coverage against sanctions violations. However, this also increases the risk of so-called false positives, potentially burdening clients with low-relevance alerts. Our algorithms therefore take into account the risk of false matches for very common names (e.g., Sergei Popov — the Russian equivalent of Jan Novák) and are stricter than they are for rare names.


PEP, Russia, and Ukraine
Datlab Sanctions also works with Ukrainian sanctions lists, Navalny's lists, and the most comprehensive database of Russian politically exposed persons, ruPEP.org. While these sources are not legally binding, they serve as an effective warning that a given individual may in the future appear on an official sanctions list. They also provide important AML-relevant information. Thanks to ruPEP in particular, we also gather data on family members and business partners of sanctioned individuals, which improves the detection of indirect connections to sanctioned persons.
Datlab Sanctions monitors politically exposed persons (PEPs) globally. From dozens of sources, we gather information on more than 1,000,000 individuals — ranging from Czech to Swiss and Chinese parliamentarians. Naturally, their detection is not an obstacle to issuing a “green” sanctions certificate, but information about identified PEPs is included in the certificate as an additional note.
Batch screening and API integration
Do you need your system to handle sanctions checks automatically? Do you have 1,000 company IDs to verify? We offer several technical integration options and can connect to systems such as SAP, Helios, JASU, and others. Get in touch and we’ll help you choose the right one.

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