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Abdul-Hamid Dashti

PEP · Politician · Sanction-linked entity

Abdul-Hamid Dashti 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	Abdul-Hamid Dashti · Abdülhamid Deşti · Dr. Abdul Hameed Dashti · عبد الحميد دشتي · عبد الحمید دشتی · 1 more...				[sources]
Alias	Abdul-Hamid Abbas Hussein Dashti · Abdul-Hamid Dashti · Abdulhamid Dashti · Abdülhamid Abbas Hüseyin Deşti · د.عبد الحميد عباس دشتي · 2 more...				[sources]
Birth date	1954-08-05				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	not available				[sources]
Country	Kuwait				[sources]
Citizenship	Kuwait				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q22688792				[sources]
Wikipedia Article	en.wikipedia.org				[sources]
Position	Member of the National Assembly of Kuwait · National Assembly (member, 2013-)				[sources]
Last change	2026-04-12	Last processed	2026-04-27	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

former Kuwaiti parliamentarian

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

Relationships

Data sources

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories345,356

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons278,395

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,466

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

Global · MySociety · non-official source

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions519,977

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata331,844

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Graph-based entity tagging84,655

Automatically generated graph-based topic annotations

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

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Associates
Associate	Relationship	Start date	End date
Ihab Makhlouf Disqualified · Export controlled · Sanctioned entity	partner in business or sport	-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the National Assembly of Kuwait	-	-