Your Turkish supplier passes local screening. Your bank will not be reading the local list
Turkey applies UN sanctions and its own national list, but never joined the EU and US regimes. So a Turkish counterparty can hold spotless local standing, working bank accounts and a clean report from a local provider — while sitting in OFAC SDN. Romania and Bulgaria are EU members, which means the lists apply there; it does not mean the company in front of you is clean, on an energy and logistics node built on transit. We screen the counterparty against the lists your bank, insurer and buyer will actually use.
First read within 24 hours. Price after a short brief, fixed before we start.
- One company, one jurisdiction — Turkey, Romania or Bulgaria
- Corporate identity: registry record, status, directors, first-tier shareholders, capital
- Cross-screening against OFAC SDN, EU consolidated, UN, UK OFSI, Ukraine's NSDC register and the local list
- Connected parties: companies sharing an address or a director
- Red-flag read: incorporation date against deal size, recent change of owner or director
- A verdict with a confidence level — not a list of links
- Everything in Exposure Screening
- Ownership chain reconstructed beyond tier one — in Turkey through Trade Registry Gazette history back to 1992
- Cross-border layer: related entities in third jurisdictions, common officers and addresses
- Goods and route analysis: dual-use categories, re-export patterns, end destination
- Public procurement footprint — EKAP, SEAP/SICAP or CAIS EOP: state ties and contract history
- RFI block: the exact questions to put to the counterparty, the documents to request, and how to read an evasive answer
We quote the price after a short brief and fix it before work starts.
Three jurisdictions on one route, three different blind spots
Does not mirror EU or US lists
Turkey applies UN sanctions and a national list, and never joined the Western regimes against russia. A counterparty can hold clean local standing and working bank accounts while sitting in OFAC SDN. Dozens of Turkish intermediaries have been designated over re-export of high-priority items.
EU member on an energy node
EU sanctions apply directly, which means there is someone to designate a local company — not that yours is clean. Romania carries Russian-rooted refining assets and Black Sea logistics. On the upside, the court portal and company financials are free and open, so the check goes deeper here than anywhere in the triangle.
EU member on the FATF grey list
The commercial register is among the most open in the EU, which makes collection cheap. The country stays under FATF increased monitoring, so enhanced due diligence on a Bulgarian counterparty is expected of you by your own regulator, not just advisable.
Six places the trail hides
Exposure rarely sits on the surface as a name from a list. It is scattered across details that look harmless one by one — and damning in combination.
The chain above tier one
A designated person is rarely written into the company itself — they sit two floors up, behind a holding in a third jurisdiction. We follow the chain as far as the registries allow and flag where it goes dark.
New owner or director
Especially when it happened shortly after the previous owner appeared on a list. Re-registering an asset to a relative or a manager is the most common manoeuvre, and it is visible in the registry history.
A young company on a large contract
A firm registered a few months ago that immediately handles six-figure supply is not growth — it is a conduit. We compare incorporation date, filed financials and the size of the deal you are being offered.
Dual-use categories
Electronics, bearings, navigation equipment, machine tools and components — the categories that draw secondary sanctions to intermediaries. We check what the counterparty actually trades against the high-priority item lists.
Logistics and end destination
A route that turns further east, transhipment without commercial logic, a vessel under a flag of convenience that changed owner in the past year. The paperwork can be clean while the routing is not.
Connected entities
Registration at an address shared with a dozen companies under common directors is the classic signature of a technical structure rather than a producer. We map the cluster around your counterparty.
From brief to verdict
One screening against one payment stuck in a compliance review
- A blocked transfer does not simply come back — it opens a file, and your bank asks why you were dealing with an intermediary it just found on a list
- The cost is rarely the money alone: a broken delivery schedule, a buyer who walks, and an insurer who reads the same list your bank did
- Screening before the contract is signed is cheaper than explaining the same chain afterwards, when the answers have to satisfy someone else
- Where we find nothing, that is a result too — a documented clean read you can put in front of your compliance team
Frequently asked
Screen a Black Sea counterparty
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