Identity Verification

As a real estate agent, sales representative, or a real estate developer, you must identify individuals and confirm the existence of entities for these activities and transactions:

• Receipt of funds
• Client information records
• Large cash transactions
• Suspicious transactions

Entities can be corporations, trusts, partnerships, funds, and unincorporated associations or organizations.

• From Main menu >> Real Estate >> FINTRAC >> Identity Verification.

• Enter the desired transaction dates in the From and To fields.

• Select the desired Required Documents using the green arrows. The double arrow allows you to select all documents with one click, while the single arrow selects only one at a time.

You can double-click on a required document to select it instead of using the green arrow.

NOTE: The required documents must have the Include in FINTRAC Report box checked to appear in the identity verification. For more information, please see the article Adding/Editing a Required Document.

• Click on Submit to display the list of transactions.

• To the right of the desired document, you can click on this icon

(Download) to open or save the file in your computer and thus proceed with the verification.

NOTE: You can click on a file to show its information.