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Ismail Sabri Yaakob

Politician

Ismail Sabri Yaakob 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	Ismail Sabri Yaacob · Ismail Sabri Yaakob · İsmail Sabri Yakub · Ισμαήλ Σαμπρί Γιαακόμπ · Ісмаїл Сабрі Якоб · 11 more...				[sources]
Alias	Dato' Sri Ismail Sabri bin Yaakob · Ismail Sabri Yaacob · Ismail Sabri bin Ab Yaakob · Ismail Sabri bin Yaakob · Ισμαΐλ Σαμπρί μπιν Γιαακόμπ				[sources]
Weak alias	伊斯梅尔·萨布里·亚科布 · 依斯迈沙比礼 · 依斯迈沙比立				[sources]
Birth date	1960-01-18				[sources]
Place of birth	Temerloh				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Malaysia				[sources]
Country	Malaysia				[sources]
Citizenship	Malaysia				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Ismail · Sabri				[sources]
Patronymic	Yakub				[sources]
Political association	United Malays National Organisation				[sources]
Title	Datuk Seri				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q6084858				[sources]
Position	Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia (2021-2021) · Dewan Rakyat (member, 2004-2008) · Dewan Rakyat (member, 2008-2013) · Dewan Rakyat (member, 2013-2018) · Malaysian National Council for Islamic Religious Affairs chairman (2021-2022) · 9 more...				[sources]
Education	Universiti Malaya				[sources]
Religion	Islam				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-20	Last processed	2025-12-20	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Prime Minister of Malaysia from 2021 to 2022

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-12-18

Relationships

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Dafi Sabri Close Associate	child	-	-
Muhaini Zainal Abidin Close Associate	spouse	-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Minister of Domestic Trade and Living Costs	2009-04-10	2013-05-15

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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 Persons275,411

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories384,936

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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Wikidata355,710

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,304

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

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