Politically Exposed Person (PEP) - a natural person:
1) who holds or has held a prominent public office, including a higher official of the public authority, a head of the State administrative unit (local government), the Head of the Government, the Minister (the Deputy Minister or the Deputy of the Deputy Minister if there is such an office in the relevant country), the State Secretary or other official of high level in the government or State administrative unit (local government), a Member of Parliament or a member of similar legislation entity, a member of the management entity (board) of the political party, a Judge of the Constitutional Court, a Judge of the Supreme Court or of the court of other level (a member of the court authority), a council or board member of the Supreme Audit Institution, a council or board member of the Central Bank, an ambassador, a chargé d'affaires, a high-ranking officer of the armed forces, a council or board member of a State capital company, a head (a director, a deputy director) and a board member of an international organisation, or a person who holds equal position in such organisation;
2) who is the following for a person referred to in Section 1:
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a spouse or a person equivalent to a spouse. A person shall be considered a person equivalent to a spouse only if he or she is given such a status pursuant to the legislation of the relevant state;
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a child or a child of a spouse or a person equivalent to a spouse of a politically exposed person, his or her spouse or a person equivalent to a spouse;
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a parent, grandparent or grandchildren;
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a brother or a sister;
3) regarding whom it is known that he or she has business or other close relations with any of the persons referred to in Section 1 or he or she is a stockholder or shareholder in the same commercial company with any of the persons referred to in Section 1, and also a natural person who is the only owner of a legal entity regarding whom it is known that it has been actually established in the favour of the person referred to in Section 1.