International Criminal Records

Criminal Records are available on the international field in limited places. Carolina Investigative Research adheres to the international privacy laws and of the European Union.

Criminal records are available in Europe, but not as available as in the United States. In most of the European Countries, the individual owns his own criminal record and may choose whom to provide access. In most countries in Europe, the criminal record may be requested by the employer, but the results are returned to the Subject of the search.

In many countries, there is no central records agency and the record searches may be extremely limited.

We can provide employment and education verification in most countries.

Excluded parties

This is a current and historical search of individuals and entities that are now or previously excluded from doing business with the United States government for Medicare/Medicaid fraud.

Terrorist Screening

Under OFAC, all employers and landlords must perform due diligence to ensure they are not assisting terrorists.

The Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") of the US Department of the Treasury administers and enforces economic and trade sanctions based on US foreign policy and national security goals against targeted foreign countries, terrorists, international narcotics traffickers, and those engaged in activities related to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. OFAC acts under Presidential wartime and national emergency powers, as well as authority granted by specific legislation, to impose controls on transactions and freeze foreign assets under US jurisdiction. Many of the sanctions are based on United Nations and other international mandates, are multilateral in scope, and involve close cooperation with allied governments.”

The goals of the agency are:

Gather and analyze information from the intelligence, law enforcement, and financial communities as to how terrorists and other criminals earn, move, and store money.

Take appropriate policy, regulatory, or enforcement action based on this analysis, to include the following:

• Freeze the assets of terrorists, drug kingpins, and their support networks
• Cut off corrupt foreign jurisdictions and financial institutions from the U.S. financial system
• Develop and enforce regulations to address the vulnerabilities of the U.S. to terrorist financing and money laundering
• Promote the international adoption and implementation of counter-terrorist financing and anti-money laundering standards
• Trace and repatriate assets looted by corrupt foreign officials in such countries as Iraq, Liberia, and Haiti
• Promote a meaningful exchange of information with the private financial sector to help it detect and address threats to the financial system

Under the Patriot Act (PL 107-56), OFAC keeps the list of "specially-designated nationals" and "blocked" persons on its public-access web site. The list is maintained by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), and includes the names of individuals who are barred from receiving bank loans and other financial services.

All employers and landlords are required to search the lists for Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) List. Carolina Investigative Research offers this search to our customers. The database search includes searches of several different “lists” to help you comply with the new laws.