Founders' passports are read from a photo and go into the application without retyping. The future director is checked for nominee status and links with other companies, and the people for bankruptcy, debts, the Rosfinmonitoring watchlist and sanctions. A front person is visible before the documents go to the tax authority.
Data is kept in Russia · Register of Russian software No. 19972 · 152‑FZ and 242‑FZ
Registration through front persons is a criminal offence, and inaccurate information in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities leads to the company being struck off the register and to a ban on its director and participants registering new ones. The risk falls not only on the founder.
NeuroVision checks people and documents before filing. Filing the documents, identifying the client and deciding whether to work with them are done by you, and the registration by the tax authority.
Criminal Code, arts. 173.1 and 173.2; Administrative Offences Code, art. 14.25; Federal Law 129‑FZ, art. 23.
Federal Law 115‑FZ, art. 7.1; Criminal Code, art. 173.1, part 2.
Federal Law 129‑FZ, art. 9, para. 4.2; art. 11, para. 6; art. 21.1.
Everyone involved in creating a company has their own moment for checking: before filing the documents, before issuing a letter of guarantee, before a service contract or before opening an account. Your risk determines the set of checks — NeuroVision connects only the ones you need.
The client sends the passports of the future founders and director — you get an answer from each register: whether the person is listed as a nominee manager, whether there is bankruptcy or debt against them, and whether they appear on watchlists or wanted lists.
A flag that a person is listed as a nominee or serial director of companies. The check runs by tax number or full name — no passport is needed.
Most often enabled:
Where the person is already a founder or manager, and whether they have sole trader status. Twenty active firms under a “first director” is a reason to ask a question before filing.
Most often enabled:
Personal bankruptcy, commercial court cases, tax arrears, tax authority decisions on account freezes, enforcement proceedings — by tax number, without namesakes.
Most often enabled:
The Rosfinmonitoring list of terrorists and extremists, OFAC, EU, UK and UN lists, the foreign agents register. For foreign founders — PEP and international sanctions lists.
Most often enabled:
Validity of a Russian passport against Ministry of Internal Affairs data: replaced, lost, invalid. Wanted lists of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Federal Penitentiary Service and the Federal Bailiff Service. Tax number — from the passport if the client does not know it.
Most often enabled:
A Russian passport with the registration page, a foreign passport and documents of foreigners from 195+ countries and territories are recognised from a photo. Anti-fraud looks for traces of editing and photos of a screen.
Most often enabled:
The check is built in between the client's application form and document preparation: passports, a query to the registers and a decision under your rules. Disputed cases go to a specialist, clean ones move on through the process.
The client uploads the passports of all founders and the director in the application form or via a link. The fields are recognised and go into the client record and the draft application; anti-fraud filters out edited images and photos of a screen.
For each person — nominee status, links with companies, bankruptcy, debts, watchlists, sanctions and wanted lists. If the founder is a company, its tax number is checked against the Unified State Register of Legal Entities: status, shell company signs, director and founders.
For each check — “passed”, “failed” or “insufficient data”, the source and the records found. The report goes into the client file, while the decision — to prepare the documents, ask questions or decline — is yours.
The address, director and founders are information whose accuracy the tax authority may verify. A front person or an “address on paper” is usually discovered only after registration — and then the company faces a four-step procedure. Checking founders before filing does not cancel this path, but removes its most common cause — a nominee director who does not know about their company.
On reasonable doubt the tax authority studies the documents, obtains explanations, requests certificates and inspects the premises. Registration of changes may be suspended for up to one month.
A notice is sent to the company, its founders and its director. They have 30 days to confirm the accurate information or correct it. A person who was “entered” without their knowledge can themselves declare the information about them inaccurate.
Information not confirmed — an inaccuracy record is entered in the register. It is seen by everyone who takes an extract: banks, counterparties, the tax authority.
Record stays for more than 6 months — the company may be struck off the Unified State Register of Legal Entities. Its director and a participant holding 50% or more will be refused registration of a new company for three years.
A person gave their passport and does not intend to manage
A student, pensioner or person in debt receives a one-off payment for a “signature”. They are given away by debts, bankruptcy and existing companies in which they are listed as manager.
One person at the head of dozens of firms
A director who already manages many companies manages none of them. The serial director flag and links with companies are visible by tax number before filing.
A founder who does not know they are a founder
The passport is lost, stolen or bought, and the scan is edited. Passport validity against Ministry of Internal Affairs data and document anti-fraud show what is wrong with the document. Handing over a passport for such registration is covered by a separate article.
The company was struck off, the person opens a new one
A director or participant holding 50% or more of a company struck off the Unified State Register of Legal Entities for inaccuracy or debts cannot register a new one for three years. Links with companies and commercial court cases show the history; the refusal will be confirmed by the tax authority.
The company is “based” where it will never be
A letter of guarantee for premises where, on paper, dozens of firms already sit and there are no people. NeuroVision does not check the address — but a nominee director and a shell-company founder give such a company away before the tax authority sends a notice.
Criminal Code, art. 173.1
Check before filing
A nominal director. Without NeuroVision — “Transparent business”, one person at a time by hand; with NeuroVision — the nominee or serial director flag and links with companies via API.
Bankruptcy and debts. Without NeuroVision — the Unified Federal Register of Bankruptcy Information, the bailiffs' database and the commercial court case file separately; with NeuroVision — in one query, by tax number, without namesakes.
Watchlists and sanctions. Without NeuroVision — the Rosfinmonitoring website and foreign lists; with NeuroVision — the watchlist, OFAC, EU, UK, UN and foreign agents, from 5 ₽.
Passports. Without NeuroVision — retyping into the application and checking against the scan; with NeuroVision — recognition from a photo and document anti-fraud.
Foreign founder. Without NeuroVision — translation and study of document samples; with NeuroVision — 195+ countries and territories, the name in Latin letters from the MRZ.
Founding company. Without NeuroVision — an extract from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities and manual review; with NeuroVision — status, shell company signs, director and founders by tax number.
Disqualification. The Federal Tax Service register of disqualified persons; not in NeuroVision.
Address. Federal Tax Service services: the address and inaccuracy record — in the extract, the number of companies at the address — in “Transparent business”; not in NeuroVision.
Identity and signature. The tax authority — when filing in person, through a notary or with an electronic signature; the bank — when opening an account; NeuroVision does not identify.
Registration. The decision is made by the tax authority; NeuroVision does not file documents.
The free services of the Federal Tax Service are good for a single check. When there are dozens of clients a day, NeuroVision returns an answer on all people and companies at once — and what the product does not have honestly stays with the tax authority's services.
Each check is enabled separately, and you pay for completed queries. A check skipped for lack of data is not charged. Input data and response fields are in the API check catalogue.
Future director
Checks by tax number: unambiguous, without namesakes.
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 moreAn individual's outstanding debt on taxes and payments administered by the tax service.
5 ₽ / check
Learn moreFounders and director
Rosfinmonitoring watchlist, sanctions lists and the foreign agents register.
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 moreA person's history
Bankruptcy, commercial court cases and debts before the documents are filed.
A 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 moreA search for criminal cases across courts of general jurisdiction nationwide, the Moscow courts included. Results are split into exact matches on the full name and probable namesakes.
5 ₽ / check
Learn morePassports and founding company
Document, wanted lists and a company check by tax number.
The 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 moreStatus in the state registers, signs of a shell company, court cases and debts, the director and shareholders — in a single request.
on request
Learn moreA Russian passport with the registration page, a foreign passport and documents of foreigners from 195+ countries and territories are recognised from a photo.
A fixed price per query, no subscription fee. A typical set for one person — nominee status, links with companies, bankruptcy, the Rosfinmonitoring watchlist and sanctions: five checks at 5 ₽ each.
Nominee manager, links with companies, bankruptcy, watchlist, sanctions — a set for your registration process.
from 16 ₽ per session
Passport recognition of the founders and director, MRZ of foreigners and document anti-fraud. An additional document in the same session — 10 ₽.
36 ₽ per check
PEP, international sanctions lists and negative media — for foreign founders and directors.
Nominee status and links with companies — database checks, 5 ₽ per query. The company check by tax number — calculated for the number of registrations a month. The exact price is worked out by the calculator on the pricing page.
Checks are built into the client's application form: founders upload passports via a link, and the service receives the result via API. Without developers — start with the widget and the web account.
Payment for completed checks, support — through a ticket system.
A service needs one supplier for passports, people and companies — without a separate export from each register.
Passport recognition, nominee status, debts, watchlists and a check of the founding company by tax number — one query 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 an extract from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, in tax authority notices and in the registration law.
Company and beneficial owner checks and the requirements of 115‑FZ — on our blog.
By each person passport and tax number: the nominee or serial director flag, links with other companies, bankruptcy, tax debts, account freezes, the Rosfinmonitoring watchlist, sanctions and wanted lists. In NeuroVision this is one query for all founders at once; passports are recognised from a photo. Disqualification and the address are checked in the Federal Tax Service services.
Registration through front persons is an offence under article 173.1 of the Criminal Code, and an employee who knew about a nominee risks becoming an accomplice. Companies with a nominee director often get an inaccuracy record and are struck off the Unified State Register of Legal Entities — and claims then come to whoever handled the registration.
By tax number or full name: NeuroVision returns the nominee or serial director flag and a list of companies where the person is already a founder or manager. Bankruptcy, debts and account freezes — frequent companions of a nominee — are also visible. The check costs 5 ₽.
Article 173.1 of the Criminal Code — a fine of 100,000 to 300,000 ₽ or imprisonment of up to 3 years, and up to 5 years for a group acting by prior agreement. For handing over your own passport or power of attorney for such registration — article 173.2 of the Criminal Code. A front person who committed the offence for the first time and helped to uncover it is released from liability.
No. The register of disqualified persons is kept by the Federal Tax Service, and checking there is free. The tax authority will refuse registration to a disqualified manager. NeuroVision complements it with what the register lacks: nominee status, debts, watchlists and sanctions.
Before the letter of guarantee — check the future director and founders against the same registers as the registration service, and an existing company changing address — by tax number. NeuroVision does not check the address itself: how many companies are registered there and whether there is an inaccuracy record can be seen in the Federal Tax Service services.
A mark that the tax authority has not confirmed the information about the address, manager or participant. It is preceded by a notice and 30 days to respond. If the record remains for more than 6 months, the company may be struck off the register, and its director and a participant holding 50% or more will be refused registration of a new company for three years.
It is not on the legal list of registration documents. In practice a letter of guarantee or a contract is attached to the application, and for registration at a residential address — the consent of the owner, if the address does not belong to the founder or director. The tax authority may request confirmation during a check.
Yes, by tax number: status in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities or the Unified State Register of Individual Entrepreneurs, shell company signs, courts and debts, director and founders — in one query. The ownership chain up to the ultimate beneficial owner is shown by the full KYB platform.
Yes. Passports of 195+ countries and territories are recognised from a photo, the name in Latin letters from the MRZ. The person is checked against sanctions lists, the Rosfinmonitoring watchlist and international PEP screening. Checks against Russian registers work by full name and date of birth where possible.
No. The identity of the applicant is confirmed by the tax authority — on filing in person, through a notary or by electronic signature — and by the bank when opening an account. A lawyer or accountant who creates a company on behalf of a client identifies the client under their own internal control rules. NeuroVision checks people and documents and provides a report for the file.
Register checks — 5 ₽ per query, international screening — 36 ₽. Passport recognition — from 16 ₽ per session, company check by tax number — calculated individually. Test access — 1 month.
Tell us how many companies you register or how many addresses you let per month and whether you have foreign founders — we will put together a set of checks and give you test access.
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