South Africa Targeted Financial Sanctions

The South African FIC sanctions list, largely based on UN Security Council sanctions.

South African sanctions are largely based on the UN Security Council sanctions list, with some additions.

Sanctions impose restrictions on activities that relate to particular countries, goods and services, or persons and entities. Targeted Financial Sanctions (TFS) measures generally restrict sanctioned persons and entities from having access to funds and property under their control and from receiving financial services in relation to such funds and property. In order for these sanctions to be given effect, the FIC Act requires Accountable Institutions to freeze property and transactions pursuant to financial sanctions imposed in the United Nations Security Council Resolutions.

Data overview 

Entities:
Total1,994
Searchable992
Targets992
Entity types:
People727
Legal entities265
Countries:
57 countries · Show overview...
Publisher:Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) · South Africa

The Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) exists to apply measures outlined in the Financial Intelligence Centre Act, 2001 (Act 38 of 2001), which are intended to make the financial system intolerant to abuse. The FIC does this by working towards fulfilling its mandate of assisting in identifying the proceeds of crime, combating money laundering, the financing of terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

Collections:in Consolidated Sanctions · OpenSanctions Default
Information:www.fic.gov.za
Source data:tfs.fic.gov.za · XML
Tags:list.sanction · sector.financial
Coverage:added · frequency: daily · On the hour, every 6 hours
Last processed:
2026-09-21 18:45:01 · v. 20260921184501-kjx · change statistics...
Last change:

Bulk download 

Downloads contain the full set of entities contained in this dataset. You can fetch a simplified tabular form, or detailed, structured data in JSON format. Updated files will be provided once a day at the same location.

File nameExport typeSize
entities.ftm.jsonFollowTheMoney entities2.17 MB
names.txtTarget names text file76.14 KB
senzing.jsonSenzing entity format613.54 KB
source.xmlSource data840.49 KB
targets.nested.jsonTargets as nested JSON2.19 MB
targets.simple.csvTargets as simplified CSV292.53 KB

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Using the API 

You can query the data in this dataset via these API endpoints:

For entity matching, use the /match endpoint:
For full-text search, use the /search endpoint:
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Recent additions 

The following targeted entities have been added to this data source most recently:

AddedNameTypeCountries
AvaxLegal entity
Gedo Hamdan AhmedPersonSudan
Elfateh Abdullah Idris AdamPersonSudan
Tijani Ibrahim Moussa MohamedPersonSudan
Alvaro Andres Quijano BecerraPersonItaly · Colombia · United Arab Emirates
Mateo Andres Duque BoteroPersonSpain · Colombia
Claudia Viviana Oliveros ForeroPersonColombia · United Kingdom
Kempes SanonPersonHaiti
Javad RahiqiPersonIran
Modern Industries Technique CompanyOrganizationIran
Seyyed Hussein HosseiniPersonIran
Dawood Agha-JaniPersonIran
Pishgam (Pioneer) Energy IndustriesOrganizationIran
Haleh BakhtiarPersonIran
IRISL Benelux NVCompanyIran · Belgium
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