Sanctions & disqualified director checks for freight forwarders and customs agents
Forwarders have been fined for moving goods for designated entities hidden behind UK shell companies.
All layers below are live government open data
- liveUK financial sanctions (OFSI consolidated list) — HM Treasury OFSI · list dated 03/06/2026
- liveCompanies House officers, PSCs, disqualified directors — Companies House API (queried live when you run a screen)
The UK sanctions list today · OFSI consolidated list dated 03/06/2026
Designated individuals
3,834
Designated entities
1,286
Sanctions regimes
31
5,135 designations including 15 ships; the list changes most weeks. Every screen you run uses the list as published at that moment.
What applies to freight forwarders and customs agents
- AML supervisor
- none for AML; HMRC for customs
- Who to screen
- Freight forwarders and customs agents typically screen shippers, consignees and vessel operators.
- In practice
- The consolidated list includes ships and shipping companies as well as people. When a new UK shipper appears, check the company's directors and PSCs — sanctioned owners often sit one layer up in the PSC register.
How the screen works
- Enter a company number: we pull the company, every current officer and every person with significant control from Companies House. Or enter a person's name.
- Each name is normalised and compared with the OFSI consolidated list (individuals and entities) and searched on the register of disqualified directors.
- Matches are graded — probable when name and birth month/year agree, possible when only the name (or only the birth year) matches. Nothing is ever reported as confirmed.
- If a source is down the layer reads UNKNOWN, never clear. The £9.99 report gives every match with its evidence and a dated PDF for your file.
Screen a company or a person now
Free summary instantly — match / no match / unknown per list. Full report £9.99.
Run a screen →Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 — HM Treasury / OFSI, Companies House. Sector notes are general information about UK law as understood on 2026-10-15, not advice for your firm; confirm obligations with your supervisor.