Politically Exposed Persons are individuals who are or have been entrusted with prominent public functions, as follows:
- Heads of State, heads of government, ministers and deputy ministers or assistant ministers;
- Members of parliament or of other legislative bodies;
- Members of supreme courts, of constitutional courts or of other high-level judicial bodies, the decisions of which are not subject to appeal, except in exceptional circumstances;
- Members of a court of auditors;
- Members of the boards of central banks;
- Ambassadors and charges d’affaires;
- High-ranking officers in the armed forces;
- Members of the administrative, management or supervisory bodies of State-owned enterprises and wholly State-owned commercial corporations;
- Municipality mayors and deputy mayors, borough mayors and deputy mayors and chairpersons of a municipal council;
- Members of the governing bodies of political parties;
- Heads and deputy heads of international organisations, members of the management or supervisory bodies at international organisations or persons performing an equivalent function in any such organisations.