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Germany BKA Wanted Fugitives

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:
Total54
Searchable54
Targets54
Entity types:
People54
Countries:
12 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:2025-07-11 14:02:02 · v. 20250711140202-nkt
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 entities155.82 KB
names.txtTarget names text file1.68 KB
senzing.jsonSenzing entity format40.16 KB
targets.nested.jsonTargets as nested JSON155.82 KB
targets.simple.csvTargets as simplified CSV11.39 KB

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Using the API

You can query the data in this dataset via the application programming interface (API) endpoints below. Please read the introduction for documentation and terms of service.

Use the Reconciliation API in OpenRefine:
For full-text search, use the /search endpoint:
For entity matching, use the /match endpoint:

Recent additions

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

AddedNameTypeCountries
MEISNERPersonGermany
NIYAZI, Mohammad SulimanPerson
SHUPLIAKOV, Danil AlekseevichPersonRussia
ZHUKOV, Aleksandr VadimovichPersonRussia
SEDLETSKII, ValeriiPersonRussia
VALIAKHMETOV, Vadim FirdavisovichPersonRussia
VAKHROMEEV, IvanPersonRussia
MIKHAILOV, Maksim SergeevichPersonUkraine · Russia
PROKOP, Roman MikhailovichPersonUkraine
KISELEV, Dmitrii SergeevichPersonRussia
KUROV, Artem IgorevichPersonRussia
TSAREV, Mikhail MikhailovichPersonRussia
OSIPOV, Oleg VasilevichPersonRussia
SHARAFETDINOV, Iskander RifkatovichPersonRussia
KOVALSKII, Aleksei ValerevichPersonRussia
OverviewDownloadAPIRecent additions
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