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Ben Murray-Bruce

PEP · Politician

Ben Murray-Bruce 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	Ben Murray Bruce · Ben Murray-Bruce · بين موراي-بروس · بین مرے-بروس				[sources]
Alias	Benedict Murray-Bruce				[sources]
Birth date	1956-02-17				[sources]
Place of birth	Lagos				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	not available				[sources]
Country	Nigeria				[sources]
Citizenship	Nigeria				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Ben				[sources]
Phone	0802772605				[sources]
Political association	Peoples Democratic Party				[sources]
Website	twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q20155621				[sources]
Wikipedia Article	en.wikipedia.org				[sources]
Position	Senate (member, 2015-) · director general (1999-) · member of the Senate of Nigeria (2015-)				[sources]
Education	University of South Carolina				[sources]
Last change	2026-05-21	Last processed	2026-05-21	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Nigerian businessman, politician and public figure

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

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
member of the Senate of Nigeria	2015	2019

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,464

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

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Nigeria Joining the Dots PEPs and PEP Relatives4,291

Data on Politically Exposed Persons in Nigeria and their relatives from the Joining the Dots project.

Nigeria · Directorio Legislativo/EITI · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories358,377

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons291,350

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 OpenSanctions552,549

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata344,654

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-13721811-4357-419c-8ca7-8f1170b36f1a · ng-dots-ben-murray-bruce-1956-02-17-district-bayelsa

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