screen_adverse_media
Screen for adverse media and sanctions
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Screen a person or organisation for ADVERSE MEDIA and SANCTIONS exposure (KYC/AML).
PEP lists are not screened: sanctions.flags.pep is always false and sanctions.note says so.
USE THIS WHEN onboarding or due-diligence asks: does this subject appear in negative news
(fraud, money laundering, bribery, sanctions, trafficking, enforcement action), or on a
sanctions list? Pairs naturally after verify_identity.
Identify the subject ONE of two ways: pass name (plus any of dob as YYYY-MM-DD, country,
aliases, employer, role — these sharpen matching and cut same-name false positives), OR
pass an identity document via url/bytes_b64 (+filename) and the subject is read from it.
Returns {subject, sanctions{...}, adverse_media{...}, risk_flag, headline, limitations}:
sanctions candidates are corroboration-gated (a name-only hit is possible, NEVER confirmed —
one common name matches several different people); media hits are entity-disambiguated and
classified, with same-name articles surfaced under excluded. This is screening COVERAGE, not a
determination — a hit means "review this", not "guilty"; "nothing found" is not a clean record.
Stateless — nothing is stored.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| name | any | no | |
| dob | any | no | |
| country | any | no | |
| aliases | any | no | |
| employer | any | no | |
| role | any | no | |
| url | any | no | |
| bytes_b64 | any | no | |
| filename | string | no |
Raw JSON schema
{
"properties": {
"name": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"title": "Name"
},
"dob": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"title": "Dob"
},
"country": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"title": "Country"
},
"aliases": {
"anyOf": [
{
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"type": "array"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"title": "Aliases"
},
"employer": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"title": "Employer"
},
"role": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"title": "Role"
},
"url": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"title": "Url"
},
"bytes_b64": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"title": "Bytes B64"
},
"filename": {
"default": "document.pdf",
"title": "Filename",
"type": "string"
}
},
"title": "screen_adverse_mediaArguments",
"type": "object"
}