# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/babak-zanjani
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:51:47.990Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/babak-zanjani"
name: "Babak Zanjani"
slug: "babak-zanjani"
description: "Babak Zanjani is an Iranian billionaire and business magnate. He was the managing director of the UAE-based Sorinet Group, one of Iran's largest business conglomerates. In late 2013, he was arrested and accused of withholding $2.7 billion of government money owned by the Ministry of Petroleum, while facilitating Iran's oil revenue, which was hindered by the sanctions against Iran."
tagline: "Iranian businessman"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/5th_session_of_Babak_Zanjani's_court-25.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1974-03-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.53
  momentum:             18.27205882352941
  historical:           15.12069866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 244
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    title: "بابک زنجانی"
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    title: "Бабак Занджани"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Babak Zanjani"
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    title: "Babak Zanjani"
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    title: "Babak Zanjani"
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    title: "Babak Zanjani"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump