# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/monzer-al-kassar
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:54:27.602Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/monzer-al-kassar"
name: "Monzer al-Kassar"
slug: "monzer-al-kassar"
description: "Monzer al-Kassar, also known as the \"Prince of Marbella\", is a Syrian arms dealer. He has been connected to numerous crimes, including the Achille Lauro hijacking and the Iran-Contra scandal. On 20 November 2008, he was convicted in U.S. federal court as part of a U.S. government sting, for agreeing to sell arms to undercover agents posing as suppliers for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a Colombian guerrilla organization. He was sentenced to thirty years' imprisonment."
tagline: "Syrian arms dealer"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1945-07-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48
  momentum:             0.3460207612456748
  historical:           7.10764
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  25
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monzer_al-Kassar"
    title: "Monzer al-Kassar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%86%D8%B0%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B1"
    title: "منذر الكسار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%86%D8%B0%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B1"
    title: "منذر الكسار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monzer_al-Kassar"
    title: "Monzer al-Kassar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monzer_Al_Kassar"
    title: "Monzer Al Kassar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monser_al_Kassar"
    title: "Monser al Kassar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monzer_al-Kassar"
    title: "Monzer al-Kassar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D1%8C-%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%80%2C_%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Аль-Кассар, Монзер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q403160"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump