Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) are natural persons and their family members or close associates who are or have been entrusted with important public functions.
PEPs can be:
heads of country, heads of government, ministers, and deputy or assistant ministers;
members of parliament;
members of courts of auditors or of the boards of central banks;
an ambassador, a temporary trustee, the Commander of the Armed Forces, the commanders of the forces and formations of the Armed Forces, the Chief of Defense Staff or a high-ranking officer of the armed forces of a foreign State;
members of the administrative, management or supervisory bodies of country-owned enterprises;
members of supreme courts, constitutional courts or other high-level judicial bodies whose decisions are not generally subject to further appeal, except in exceptional circumstances;
the mayor of a municipality, the director of the municipal administration;
the head of an international intergovernmental organization, his/her deputy, member of the management or supervisory body;
the head of a political party, his/her deputy, member of the governing body.