Malaysia MOHA Sanctions List

The Malaysian Home Affairs list designates those found to be involved in acts of terrorism.

This list is made by the Minister of Home Affairs under the section 66B (1) of the Anti-Money Laundering, Anti-Terrorism Financing and Proceeds From Illegal Activities 2001 [Act 613]. Under section 66B (1) of the Act 613,

Where the Minister of Home Affairs is satisfied on information given to him by a police officer that:

(a) an entity has knowingly committed, attempted to commit, participated in committing or facilitated the commission of, a terrorist act; or (b) an entity is knowingly acting on behalf of, at the direction of, or in association with, an entity referred to in paragraph (a),

the Minister of Home Affairs may, by order published in the Gazette, declare the entity to be a specified entity.

Data overview 

Entities:
Total158
Searchable79
Targets79
Entity types:
People56
Organizations23
Countries:
8 countries · Show overview...
Publisher:Ministry of Home Affairs (Kementerian Dalam Negeri) (MOHA) · Malaysia

Sanctions in the ministry are managed by the division responsible for Countering Financing of Terrorism.

Collections:in Consolidated Sanctions · OpenSanctions Default
Information:www.moha.gov.my
Source data:www.moha.gov.my · PDF
Tags:list.sanction
Coverage:added · frequency: weekly
Last processed:
2026-07-31 20:08:01 · v. 20260731200801-lab
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 entities119.19 KB
names.txtTarget names text file3.34 KB
senzing.jsonSenzing entity format45.94 KB
source.pdfSource data562.15 KB
targets.nested.jsonTargets as nested JSON120.27 KB
targets.simple.csvTargets as simplified CSV19.11 KB

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

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Recent additions 

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

AddedNameTypeCountries
Mohd Zairul bin MahmudPersonMalaysia
Al Sagheer Yahya Abdo MahdiPersonYemen
Hamza EltemmaviPersonTürkiye
Nor Mahmudah binti AhmadPersonMalaysia
Zahar bin AbdullahPersonMalaysia
Ishak bin HayaPersonMalaysia
Halimah binti HusseinPersonMalaysia
A Rasid bin IsmailPersonMalaysia
Anas Faizal bin Abdul MalekPersonMalaysia
Muhammad Aqif Heusen bin RahizatPersonMalaysia
Siti Noor bte. Mohd AminPersonMalaysia
Shameem Banu Mirrah MydinPersonMalaysia
Mohd Faizal bin AbdullahPersonMalaysia
Khairul Amizan bin AzmiPersonMalaysia
Mohd Azizuddin bin Abd SatarPersonMalaysia
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