Executive Person Trace

What Is Executive Person Trace?

Diliguard’s Executive Person Trace combines adverse media analysis, sanctions and PEP screening, regulatory enforcement checks, and digital footprint verification (email, phone, username, dark web exposure) into a single query on an individual. It surfaces undisclosed directorships, litigation history, and identity inconsistencies that a reference check does not reach.

How Executive Person Trace Works

• Adverse Media and Litigation Screening: Searches global and local news via Google News, with automatic local-language translation, for negative press, litigation, and misconduct tied to the individual.
• Sanctions, PEP, and Interpol Correlation: Cross-references the individual against OFAC/UN/EU/UK sanctions lists covering roughly 215 countries, a PEP dataset covering 28 countries plus an EU and a global collection, and Interpol Red Notices globally.
• Regulatory Enforcement Check: Cross-references the individual against the OpenSanctions Crime dataset for prior fines or enforcement actions.
• Digital Footprint Verification: Runs Email OSINT (DNS, SMTP, WHOIS, social footprint), a Phone Scan (carrier, line type, country), a Username Scan (platform matches), and a Dark Web Dumps check (credential leak exposure) when that contact data is available.

What Diliguard Returns

Sanctions, PEP, and regulatory findings return the same match-card format used across Diliguard: Entity Match Name, Database List, Match Score, and available Birth Date and Nationality. Adverse media returns clickable article cards with title, source, and publication date. Email OSINT returns DNS/SMTP status, WHOIS registrar and creation date, and a list of social platforms where the address is registered. A clean identity check across all modules returns a green clear status on every tab; a hit on any module returns that module flagged while the others remain independently visible.

Data Sources and Coverage

Sanctions coverage spans roughly 215 countries via OFAC/UN/EU/UK consolidated lists. PEP coverage is limited to 28 countries plus a separate EU-wide and a global collection, not the full sanctions scope. Interpol Red Notice checks are global. Adverse media draws on Google News with local-language query translation. Digital footprint checks (email, phone, username, dark web) query public DNS/WHOIS records, carrier databases, social platforms, and public breach/dump indexes respectively.

Key Capabilities

1. Undisclosed Business Interests

Active and dormant company affiliations that never appear on a CV surface through Corporate KYB & Global Registry Checks, including shell entities where the individual is UK or EU-registered.

2. Full UBO Tracing on Directorships

UBO tracing across UK and EU-27 corporate registries maps every directorship held, past or present, including cross-jurisdictional holdings within those registries designed to obscure ownership.

3. Litigation Pattern Detection

Civil, commercial, and regulatory proceedings are pulled and assessed for pattern. A single dispute may be contextual; a pattern across multiple records is a structural finding.

4. Conflict of Interest Mapping

The individual’s corporate network is cross-referenced against the requesting organization’s business, investors, and counterparties to flag undisclosed leverage or competing interests.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does an Executive Person Trace confirm someone’s identity, or just their history?

Both. Email, phone, and username checks verify the digital identity is consistent and real, while sanctions, PEP, adverse media, and UBO checks establish the individual’s compliance and ownership history.

What if the individual has a common name that returns unrelated matches?

Match cards include available birth date, nationality, and source database, specifically so a common-name false positive can be ruled out against the real biographical details rather than the name string alone.

Can this run without an email or phone number for the target?

Yes. The name-based checks (sanctions, PEP, adverse media, regulatory, UBO/directorship tracing) run independently. Email, phone, and username checks are additive when that contact data is available.

Is UBO/directorship tracing in this report global?

No. It covers the UK and the 27 EU member states, the same scope as the standalone Corporate KYB module. Sanctions and Interpol checks in the same report are broader.

Where This Fits

Executive Person Trace underlies Executive Hiring, M&A Intelligence, Lawyers & Notaries, and Investment Migration Operators, wherever an individual’s undisclosed history carries fiduciary or regulatory weight.

Architecture and Integration

Diliguard operates on a heavy-lifting OSINT architecture designed for data density. Teams access this through the Diliguard portal for manual investigations, or integrate it via the Developer API at api.diliguard.com, authenticated with an API key created from the portal’s Settings page. The same trace is callable by AI agents through the @sluxia/diliguard-mcp MCP server.