What is Sanctions Screening?

Sanctions screening is the check a licensed operator runs to make sure a customer, and the people connected to them, do not appear on a government sanctions list. It is a legal obligation, separate from ordinary identity verification and from anti-money-laundering risk scoring. The check runs at registration and then repeatedly, because lists change. A name added to a list this month must be caught on an account opened last year, so operators rescreen their existing customers rather than screening once at signup. For a player the visible effect is a frozen account with a bare explanation. Matching is done on names and dates of birth, so false positives on common names are routine and are cleared by producing documents, not by arguing. What an operator legally cannot do is tell you the detail of why, or process a withdrawal while a genuine match is unresolved. The rules are set by the sanctions regime, not by the site's terms, so complaining to an adjudicator will not move it.