Add BIS - Denied Persons List to search

[wadearnold]

The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) of the U.S. Department of Commerce is responsible for the regulation of exports for national security, foreign policy, and nonproliferation reasons, as well as the enforcement of those regulations. The BIS Denied Persons List (formerly known as the Denial Orders List or the DOL List) lists individuals who have been denied export privileges in whole or in part. BIS Denied Person list is a key list to be scanned against in order to comply with the USA PATRIOT Act.

In addition to enforcing the Export Administration Regulations (EAR), BIS export compliance administers several restricted party lists that apply to export and reexport transactions. BIS maintains three restricted party lists: the Denied Persons List, the Entity List and the Unverified List.

BIS lists, which change frequently, include:

• BIS Denied Persons List download
  The BIS Denied Persons List includes the names of individuals and companies that have been denied export privileges by BIS, usually due to a violation of U.S. export control laws. U.S. persons and companies are generally prohibited from engaging in export transactions with parties named on the Denied Persons List.

• BIS Entity List
  The BIS Entity List identifies the names of companies, individuals, government agencies and research institutions that trigger export and reexport license requirements. U.S. companies need to ensure that the appropriate export licenses are in place before proceeding with transactions with parties on the BIS Entity List.

• BIS Unverified List
  This list includes the names of foreign parties that BIS have been unable to conduct a pre-license check or post-shipment verification. Potential transactions with parties on the Unverified List are a “red flag” that must be addressed and resolved before proceeding with the export.

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Adding BIS Denied Persons list expands the scope of this project from OFAC to identity verification. Competitive products in the market that are sold as OFAC checks usually include additional public lists that augment the OFAC check by starting with the OFAC’s SDN lsit and then searching

• BIS Denied Persons
• FBI’s Most Wanted List
• Debarred Parties list
• Death Master File

All lists are used to help verify the identity of the sending or receiving company

[atonks2]

This PR adds the BIS Denied Persons List: #96

[adamdecaf]

This will be released in v0.9.0