# Brazil Sanctions & Debarment Check (CNPJ) — 5 Official Lists ✅ (`brazilayer/cnpj-sanctions-check`) Actor

Screen any Brazilian CNPJ against the 5 official integrity lists in one run: debarment (CEIS), corruption fines (CNEP), blocked nonprofits (CEPIM), slave labor (MTE) and leniency deals (CGU). A database check on government bulk data, not a scraper. One verdict per company: clean or flagged.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/brazilayer/cnpj-sanctions-check.md
- **Developed by:** [Brazilayer](https://apify.com/brazilayer) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Business, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$10.00 / 1,000 cnpj screeneds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Brazil Sanctions & Debarment Check (CNPJ)

Screen any Brazilian company against **all five official integrity lists in one
run**. Paste a list of CNPJs — straight from a spreadsheet — and get back one
verdict per company: clean, or flagged with every sanction detailed.

**This is a database check, not a scraper.** The government bulk datasets are
loaded in our own Postgres, so there is nothing to block you, no rate limit, and
nothing that breaks when a portal changes layout. Five hundred CNPJs come back in
seconds.

### The five lists

| List | Maintained by | What a hit means |
|---|---|---|
| **CEIS** | CGU | Debarred — banned from public contracts |
| **CNEP** | CGU | Fined under the Anti-Corruption Law (Lei 12.846) |
| **CEPIM** | CGU | Nonprofit blocked from federal agreements |
| **Slave labor registry** | MTE | Caught employing forced labor (the "lista suja") |
| **Leniency agreements** | CGU/AGU | Signed a corruption leniency deal |

### What you get per CNPJ

| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
| `ficha_limpa` | `true` when the company appears in **none** of the five lists |
| `total_apontamentos` | Number of hits across all lists |
| `ceis`, `cnep`, `cepim`, `trabalho_escravo`, `acordos_leniencia` | Hits per list |
| `apontamentos` | Full detail of every sanction: authority, case number, dates, legal basis, fine amount |
| `valido` | `false` when the entry is not a real CNPJ — marked, not charged |

A clean answer is a deliverable too: "checked on this date against all five
official lists, no hits" is exactly what a compliance file needs to contain.

### Typical uses

- **Vendor onboarding** — screen a supplier before signing, document the result
- **KYB / due diligence** — corruption fines and debarments in the risk picture
- **Supply-chain ESG** — the slave-labor registry is the hard evidence auditors ask for
- **Public procurement** — check partners and subcontractors for debarment before bidding
- **Portfolio review** — re-screen the whole vendor base after each monthly update

### Input

```json
{
  "cnpjs": ["00.000.000/0001-91", "33000167000101", "60.701.190/0001-04"]
}
```

Punctuation optional. Duplicate lines are skipped. Invalid entries come back
marked (`valido: false`) instead of failing the run — and you are not charged
for them.

### Pricing

Charged **per CNPJ screened**, not per run. Screen 10 companies, pay for 10.
Invalid and duplicate entries are free. No subscription, no minimum.

### Data source and privacy

Official bulk datasets published by CGU (CEIS, CNEP, CEPIM, leniency agreements)
and MTE (slave-labor registry), refreshed on our side after each government
update, with the load date returned in every response (`fonte.carregado_em`).
Scope is **companies only** (pessoas jurídicas): the check covers CNPJs, not
individuals, in line with LGPD — we redistribute exactly what the government
already publishes about legal entities, nothing enriched, nothing inferred.

Built on the [Brazilayer](https://api.brazilayer.com/docs) data platform — the
same registry behind our
[Brazilian Company Database Search](https://apify.com/brazilayer/brazilian-company-search)
actor: find companies there, screen them here.

# Actor input Schema

## `cnpjs` (type: `array`):

One Brazilian company number (CNPJ) per line, with or without punctuation. Paste straight from a spreadsheet — invalid entries come back marked instead of failing the run, and you are not charged for them.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "cnpjs": [
    "00000000000191",
    "33000167000101"
  ]
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Every CNPJ checked in this run, one item each.

## `resultsCsv` (type: `string`):

Same list as a CSV download — drop it back into the spreadsheet the CNPJs came from.

## `consoleView` (type: `string`):

Browse the results as a table.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "cnpjs": [
        "00.000.000/0001-91",
        "33.000.167/0001-01"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("brazilayer/cnpj-sanctions-check").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "cnpjs": [
        "00.000.000/0001-91",
        "33.000.167/0001-01",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("brazilayer/cnpj-sanctions-check").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "cnpjs": [
    "00.000.000/0001-91",
    "33.000.167/0001-01"
  ]
}' |
apify call brazilayer/cnpj-sanctions-check --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=brazilayer/cnpj-sanctions-check",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/fWr8M34r5VANWm1Y5/builds/LzIGpPLEbv7cNpfoz/openapi.json