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Abdollah Karima

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Abdollah Karima is subject to sanctions. See the individual program listings below.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Abdollah Karima · KARIMA, Abdollah				[sources]
Other name	"Vahid" Karima				[sources]
Weak alias	VAHID				[sources]
Birth date	1979-03-21				[sources]
Place of birth	Mashhad, Iran				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Iran				[sources]
Eye color	Brown				[sources]
First name	Abdollah				[sources]
Hair color	Brown				[sources]
Height	5'6"				[sources]
ID Number	`093-343402-2` · `4043`				[sources]
Last name	KARIMA				[sources]
Weight	135 pounds				[sources]
Ethnicity	White				[sources]
Source link	home.treasury.gov · sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov · www.fbi.gov				[sources]
Last change	2025-10-29	Last processed	2025-11-03	First seen	2023-04-20

Descriptions

NCIC: W983081598

— US FBI Most Wanted, 2024-04-18

Abdollah Karima is wanted for his alleged involvement in criminal activities, including obtaining unauthorized access to computer systems, stealing proprietary data from those systems, and selling that stolen data to Iranian customers such as Iranian universities and the Iranian government. Karima was an associate of the

— US FBI Most Wanted, 2024-04-18

Karima is known to speak Farsi and resides in Iran.

— US FBI Most Wanted, 2024-04-18

Relationships

Sanctions
Country	Authority	Program	Start date	End date
United States	Office of Foreign Assets Control		-	-

Documents
Document	Date
Treasury Sanctions Iranian Cyber Actors for Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities Targeting Hundreds of Universities	2018-03-23

Identifications
Document number	Country	Type	Start date	End date
`4043`	-	Birth Certificate Number	-	-

Data sources

US OFAC Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) List35,178

The primary United States' sanctions list, specially designated nationals (SDN) part.

United States · OFAC

US FBI Most Wanted471

The FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives is a most wanted list maintained by the United States's Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

United States · FBI

US SAM Procurement Exclusions105,486

A database of suppliers who have been excluded from participating in US federal procurement.

United States · GSA

US Trade Consolidated Screening List (CSL)23,257

The Consolidated Screening List (CSL) is a list of parties for which the United States Government maintains restrictions on certain exports, re-exports, or transfers of items.

United States · ITA

External databases

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US OFAC Press Releases7,268

US OFAC press releases that provide context and details related to sanctioned entities.

External dataset · United States · OFAC

Source data IDs: ofac-pr-d97f44b23b26829bade243fa17c882ab3fd53bdf · ofac-24033 · usgsa-s4mr6cjkc · us-fbi-abdollah-karima

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