Germany BKA Wanted Fugitives

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List of Individuals Wanted for Arrest on German BKA Website

This dataset publishes the list of people wanted for arrest on the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA).

It includes details such as the fugitive's name, nationality, offense, time of crime and crime scene.

Data overview 

Entities:
Total35
Searchable35
Targets35
Entity types:
People35
Countries:
13 countries · Show overview...
Publisher:Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) · Germany

Bundeskriminalamt, The German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), is the federal investigative police agency under the Federal Ministry of the Interior.

Collections:in OpenSanctions Default · Warrants and Criminal Entities
Information:www.bka.de
Source data:www.bka.de · HTML
Tags:list.wanted
Coverage:added · frequency: monthly
Last processed:
2026-08-11 14:02:01 · v. 20260811140201-mss · change statistics...
Last change:

Bulk download 

Downloads contain the full set of entities contained in this dataset. You can fetch a simplified tabular form, or detailed, structured data in JSON format. Updated files will be provided once a day at the same location.

File nameExport typeSize
entities.ftm.jsonFollowTheMoney entities72.85 KB
names.txtTarget names text file962 B
senzing.jsonSenzing entity format25.71 KB
targets.nested.jsonTargets as nested JSON72.85 KB
targets.simple.csvTargets as simplified CSV7.37 KB

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Using the API 

You can query the data in this dataset via these API endpoints:

For entity matching, use the /match endpoint:
For full-text search, use the /search endpoint:
Use the Reconciliation API in OpenRefine:
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Authentication, endpoints and usage examples

Recent additions 

The following targeted entities have been added to this data source most recently:

AddedNameTypeCountries
GYNDY, Hassan FayasPersonGermany · Iraq
SHCHUKIN, Daniil MaksimovichPersonRussia
KRAVCHUK, Anatoly SergeevitschPersonRussia
LIBYCH, IhorPersonUkraine
BURLAKOV, Mihail EvgenyevichPersonRussia
EVSTRATOVA, OlgaPersonRussia
LUPIN, Maxim NikolaevichPersonRussia
AVROSIMOW, Andrej StanislavovichPersonRussia
MURAVYOV, AndreyPersonRussia
SABANOVIC, RacipPersonSerbia
DRMAKU, IbusPersonSerbia
NIYAZI, Mohammad SulimanPerson
MALO, ShpendiPersonAlbania
BARAKAT, Ali Askar HassoPersonIraq
KARATZAIDIS, ManolisPersonGreece
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