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Samy Vellu

Politician

Samy Vellu is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Dato' Seri S. Samy Vellu, · Samy Vellu · سامى ڤيلو · سامي فيلو · サミー・ヴェル · 1 more...				[sources]
Alias	Dato' Seri S. Samy Vellu, · S. Samy Vellu · ச. சாமிவேலு · 三美威魯 · 三美威鲁				[sources]
Birth date	1936-03-08				[sources]
Place of birth	Kluang				[sources]
Death date	2022-09-15				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Malaysia				[sources]
Country	Malaysia				[sources]
Citizenship	Malaysia				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Samy				[sources]
Political association	Malaysian Indian Congress				[sources]
Title	Tun				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q1059617				[sources]
Position	Dewan Rakyat (member, 2004-2008) · Member of the Dewan Rakyat				[sources]
Education	Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Anderson				[sources]
Religion	Hinduism				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-26	Last processed	2025-12-26	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Malaysian politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the Dewan Rakyat	-	-
Member of the Dewan Rakyat	2004-05-17	2008-02-13

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators57,728

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons316,647

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,358

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata355,710

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

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