Check a supplier before the contract with a single tax number (INN): company status, shell-company signs, director and founders, courts and debts. Match the supplier's founders against your employees, read the representative's passport without manual entry, and screen foreign participation for sanctions — before the advance leaves your account.
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The law does not set a general duty to check every supplier. However, the tax authority assesses how a company chose its counterparty, Federal Law 223‑FZ requires a customer to apply equal rules to participants and to take measures against conflicts of interest, and Federal Law 273‑FZ requires any organisation to take measures to prevent corruption.
NeuroVision collects data on the supplier and the people behind it before the contract. The decision on admission, the payment terms and the procurement procedures remain with you.
Tax Code, Art. 54.1; Federal Tax Service letter of 10.03.2021 No. БВ-4-7/3060@.
Federal Law 223‑FZ, Art. 1, Part 2; Art. 3, Parts 6, 7, 7.1–7.3.
Federal Law 273‑FZ, Art. 10, Art. 13.3.
Each has its own point of control: a new supplier request, contract approval, admission to a tender, onboarding a seller to the platform, the first advance. Your risk defines the set of checks — NeuroVision includes only the ones you need.
The supplier sends its details and a commercial offer — you get an answer from each register: is the company alive, who is behind it, are there debts and freezes, is the supplier linked to your employees, and who will come to sign the contract.
Status in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities or Individual Entrepreneurs: is it in liquidation, when it was registered, who the director and founders are. Commercial court cases, including bankruptcy, and debts to the budget.
Most often enabled:
A nominee or serial director, links to dozens of companies, tax authority decisions to freeze accounts. A shell company is more often given away by its director than by an extract.
Most often enabled:
Bankruptcy, commercial court cases, tax arrears and enforcement proceedings — by INN, with no namesakes. The Rosfinmonitoring list, sanctions and the register of foreign agents — by full name.
Most often enabled:
An employee's links to companies by their INN — with their consent. A match with the supplier's founders or director is visible before the contract.
Most often enabled:
The representative's passport is recognised from a photo, and anti-fraud looks for traces of editing. Passport validity and wanted status are checked against databases. Power of attorney — fields according to the template of your form.
Most often enabled:
Foreign founders and director — against the OFAC, EU, UK and UN lists and in international PEP and sanctions screening of 50+ countries.
Most often enabled:
The check is built in between the supplier's request and contract approval: the INN from the supplier record, the people behind the company, a decision under your rules. Clean suppliers go ahead, disputed ones go to the security service.
The INN is sent from the supplier record in your procurement system or entered in the web account. The representative uploads a passport and a power of attorney via a link — the fields are recognised and go into the record without retyping.
The director and founders are pulled from the register by INN. Each is checked for nominee status, links, bankruptcy, debts, watchlists and sanctions; founders are matched against the list of your procurement employees.
For each check — “passed”, “not passed” or “insufficient data”, the source and the records found. A dated report goes into the supplier record; the decision — to admit, request clarification or refuse — is yours.
The tax authority calls a company “technical” if it carries on no real activity and exists only for document flow. If your supplier turns out to be one, the question will be put not only to it but also to how you chose it. The market calls this due diligence, although the Tax Code has no such term and the Federal Tax Service speaks of commercial due diligence. A check does not guarantee the outcome of a tax audit and does not confirm that deliveries were real — the contract, primary documents and transport documents do that. What to put in the file is described in the due diligence section.
The Tax Code states directly: the fact that the supplier breached tax legislation or that the documents were signed by an unauthorised person is not in itself grounds to deny deductions and expenses. The tax authority must prove more.
The Federal Tax Service directs inspectorates to consider whether the buyer assessed the supplier's business reputation and solvency, the risk of non-performance, resources and experience. Among the circumstances are a refusal of the checks usual in business practice and of the analysis of the Federal Tax Service's open data.
If a company exercised commercial due diligence and did not know and could not have known that the supplier was “technical”, its actions do not constitute a tax offence. A pre-contract check kept with its date is one of the arguments.
The Supreme Court distinguishes between situations: if the buyer merely failed to exercise due diligence, the tax can be recalculated on the real parameters of the transaction; if the buyer itself built the document flow through “technical” companies, such a recalculation does not apply.
A procurement employee is a founder or director of the supplier, or they are both listed in a third company. The “Affiliation” check by the employee's INN shows where they are a founder or head and whether they have an individual entrepreneur registration; your system matches this list against the supplier's founders and director.
Those who influence the choice: buyers, purchase initiators, authors of the technical specification, commission members, contract approvers. An employee check is made only with their consent and under your conflict of interest policy.
Kinship, affinity and informal arrangements cannot be established by INN. For these, use a conflict of interest declaration from the employee and an anti-corruption clause in the supplier contract. A match is a reason to look into it, not proof of a violation.
For customers under Federal Law 223‑FZ, measures against conflicts of interest are expressly mandatory for the head and the members of the commission, and employees and participants of the supplier company cannot sit on the commission. For other organisations this is part of the measures under Article 13.3 of the anti-corruption law.
The supplier makes and stores nothing
A recently registered company with a serial director and links to dozens of firms resells the goods of a real factory and disappears after the check. The director's nominee status and links are visible by INN before the contract.
Accounts are already frozen, debts are piling up
The supplier takes a prepayment while the tax authority has already suspended operations on its accounts and the director has enforcement proceedings or bankruptcy. Freezes, court cases and debts show this before the first payment.
A founder who is the customer's employee
A buyer selects a company in which they are listed as a founder, directly or through a third firm. The employee's links by their INN and matching against the supplier's founders reveal the match before signing.
The contract is signed by someone other than the person named
A person with an invalid passport or a power of attorney from a non-existent director. The passport is checked against the Ministry of Internal Affairs database and for traces of editing, and the authority is matched against the head in the register.
A foreign founder on the lists
A company with Russian registration but a foreign founder or director from sanctions lists. OFAC, EU, UK and UN screening and PEP screening show the match before payment.
Art. 54.1 Tax Code
Supplier checked before the advance
Company, director, founders and check date for each INN — in your procurement system
You have hundreds of active suppliers, and they were checked in different years. Through the API your system sends each INN as a separate request with the required set of checks, and the result returns to the supplier record.
A company checked at the first contract may, a year later, have changed its director, had its accounts frozen or gone bankrupt. A repeat request by INN before a new advance or once a quarter returns current data and new results.
For a one-off delivery of minor goods, status and shell-company signs are enough. For a key supplier with an advance — the full set on the director and founders, links to employees and sanctions. Sets are saved for supplier categories.
There are no automatic alerts about changes at a supplier yet: monitoring is part of the KYB platform and available in early access. For now, changes are visible by comparing a new response with the previous one.
Status and shell company. Without NeuroVision — a Unified State Register of Legal Entities extract and “Transparent Business” for each INN by hand; NeuroVision — status, shell-company signs, director and founders via API.
Courts and accounts. Without NeuroVision — the commercial court case file and the Federal Tax Service suspension service separately; NeuroVision — in the same request.
The whole base. Without NeuroVision — an employee goes through each service for each supplier; NeuroVision — each INN as a separate request from your system.
Director and founders. Without NeuroVision — the federal bankruptcy register, the bailiffs' database and the Rosfinmonitoring website for each person; NeuroVision — one request, by INN with no namesakes, from 5 ₽.
Employees. Without NeuroVision — manual search in “Transparent Business”; NeuroVision — links by INN with the employee's consent.
Representative. Without NeuroVision — retyping the passport; NeuroVision — recognition from a photo, anti-fraud, passport validity and wanted status.
Disqualification and participation restrictions. “Transparent Business” and the Federal Tax Service register of disqualified persons; not in NeuroVision.
Unfair suppliers. the register in the EIS; not in NeuroVision.
Financial statements, capacity, experience. GIR BO and a document request to the supplier; not in NeuroVision.
Power of attorney and real delivery. Matching authority, the contract, primary and transport documents — your job.
The free Federal Tax Service services are good for a single check. When there are dozens of new suppliers a month and the base needs re-checking, NeuroVision returns the answer on the company and all the people behind it at once — and what is not in the product honestly stays with the government services.
Each check is enabled separately, and you pay for completed requests. A check skipped for lack of data is not charged. Input data and response fields are in the API check catalogue.
Supplier
Company by INN and shell-company signs of its director.
Status in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs, shell-company signs, courts and debts, director and founders.
A flag that the person is listed as a nominee or serial company director.
5 ₽ / check
Learn moreA person's links to legal entities: where they are a shareholder or a director, and whether they hold sole trader status.
5 ₽ / check
Learn moreTax authority decisions suspending account operations: the date, the decision number and the reason for the freeze.
5 ₽ / check
Learn moreDirector and founders
Bankruptcy, commercial court cases and debts — by INN, with no namesakes.
An individual's outstanding debt on taxes and payments administered by the tax service.
5 ₽ / check
Learn moreA search of the federal bankruptcy register: personal bankruptcy cases filed and completed. By tax number the result is unambiguous.
5 ₽ / check
Learn moreA history of disputes from the commercial court case file, bankruptcy cases included. Matching is done by tax number, so namesakes never reach the results.
5 ₽ / check
Learn moreActive enforcement proceedings from the bailiffs' database: the amounts owed, the claimants, the type of recovery and an estimate of how close the person is to bankruptcy given their total debts.
5 ₽ / check
Learn moreRussian and foreign participants
Rosfinmonitoring list, sanctions lists, foreign agents, PEP.
Screening against the list of people involved in extremist activity or terrorism. A mandatory check under 115-FZ.
5 ₽ / check
Learn moreScreening against the consolidated lists of OFAC (USA), the European Union, the United Kingdom and the UN. Every match carries a similarity score and a flag if it was triggered by an alias.
5 ₽ / check
Learn moreA check against the Russian Ministry of Justice's foreign agents register. Its entries carry a date of birth and a tax number, so a match can be verified.
5 ₽ / check
Learn moreInternational screening against politically exposed persons and their associates, sanctions lists from more than 50 countries, regulatory actions and adverse media coverage. For Russian citizens it runs from the international passport or from the full name and date of birth.
36 ₽ / check
Learn moreWho signs the contract
Passport, validity and wanted status; power of attorney — by the template of your form.
The passport is recognised from a photo: the fields arrive as a JSON response in the procurement system, and anti-fraud looks for traces of editing.
from 16 ₽ per session
Learn moreThe authenticity and validity of a Russian passport through the interagency interaction system. It catches expired, replaced, lost and invalid documents and verifies that the passport was issued to this particular person.
5 ₽ / check
Learn moreA search of the federal database of people wanted by the police. Filtered by the full date of birth — results with no namesakes.
5 ₽ / check
Learn moreThe fields of your form's power of attorney — in JSON after the template is set up on your samples.
A fixed price per request, no subscription fee. A set for each supplier category: for a one-off delivery — company and shell company, for a key supplier with an advance — all the people behind the company, links to employees and sanctions.
Nominee director, links to companies, account freezes, tax arrears, bankruptcy, watchlist and sanctions — for the director and each founder.
on request
Status, shell-company signs, courts and debts, director and founders — the price depends on the number of suppliers per month and the size of the base.
36 ₽ per check
PEP and sanctions in more than 50 countries — for foreign founders and directors.
Passport recognition of the representative — from 16 ₽ per session. Nominee status and links to companies are separate checks at 5 ₽ each. More details — in the price matrix.
The check is built into the supplier record: the INN goes from your procurement system and the result returns via API. No developers — start with the web account and the link for the representative.
Payment for completed checks, support through a ticket system.
Procurement needs a single source on the company, the people behind it and the representative — without exports from each register.
Company by INN, director and founders, links to your employees and the representative's passport — one request and one result, with the source of each record.
There is no need to assemble a solution from several vendors and reconcile their responses.
A Skolkovo resident; the platform is entry no. 19972 in the Russian software registry.
Terms found in tax authority letters, procurement documentation and conflict of interest policies.
Company checks, due diligence and Federal Law 115‑FZ requirements — in our blog.
By INN: company status in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, shell-company signs, courts and debts, director and founders. Then the people behind the company: nominee status, links to other firms, bankruptcy, tax arrears, account freezes, the Rosfinmonitoring list and sanctions. In NeuroVision this is a single API request; disqualification, financial statements and the register of unfair suppliers are checked in government services.
There is no general obligation. But in a tax audit, how the company chose its counterparty is assessed: the Federal Tax Service speaks of commercial due diligence — the supplier's reputation, solvency, resources and experience. Customers under Federal Law 223‑FZ set requirements for participants in the procurement documentation.
There is no guarantee. According to the Federal Tax Service position, if a company exercised commercial due diligence and did not know that the supplier was “technical”, there is no offence. A dated report records what was checked and when, but the real delivery is confirmed by the contract and the primary and transport documents.
This is what the market calls checking a counterparty before a transaction. The Tax Code has no such term, and in its letter of 10.03.2021 No. БВ-4-7/3060@ the Federal Tax Service speaks of commercial due diligence. What to put in the counterparty file is described in the due diligence section.
Most often it is given away by its director: a nominee or serial director, links to dozens of companies, bankruptcy or debts. For the company itself — account freezes, recent registration, lack of resources. No single sign proves in itself that a supplier is “technical” — it is a reason to request documents.
With the employee's consent, check their links to companies by INN and match them against the supplier's founders and director. Kinship cannot be established from the registers — for it you need a conflict of interest declaration. Customers under Federal Law 223‑FZ are obliged to take measures against conflicts of interest in the procurement commission.
Those the customer specified in the competitive procurement documentation under its procurement regulation — and equally for all participants. Requirements that are not in the documentation cannot be imposed. You can require that the participant is not in the register of unfair suppliers.
The representative's passport is recognised from a photo and checked for traces of editing, for validity against the Ministry of Internal Affairs database and for wanted status. The power of attorney fields are extracted by the template of your form. The authority — who issued it, the term, the scope — you match with the supplier's head in the register; NeuroVision does not verify the validity of the power of attorney.
Yes. Through the API your system sends each INN as a separate request with the required set of checks, and the results return to the supplier records. A repeat check — by the same request before a new advance or once per period.
Automatic monitoring of a change of director, status and appearance on lists is part of the KYB platform and available in early access. For now, changes are visible on a repeat check — by comparing a new response with the previous one.
Foreign founders and the director are checked against the OFAC, EU, UK and UN sanctions lists and in international PEP and sanctions screening of 50+ countries. Documents of foreigners are recognised from 195+ countries and territories. For the ownership chain and payments abroad, see the foreign trade scenario.
Checks of the director and founders against the registers cost 5 ₽ per request, international screening costs 36 ₽, and passport recognition of the representative from 16 ₽. The company check by INN is priced on request. Test access lasts 1 month.
Tell us how many new suppliers you onboard per month, how many are in your base and whether you work under Federal Law 223‑FZ — we will put together a set of checks for your supplier categories and give you test access.
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