Albert Karaziwan (born 1958) is a Syrian-Belgian businessman who owns and operates Semlex Group, a Belgian identification document and device production company notable for supplying over a dozen African nations with passports or other ID documents.
He began his career in the diamond business in Antwerp, and made his fortune by assisting a Finnish businessman to invest in Brussels real estate.
In 1992, he founded Semlex Group in Brussels, and opened a branch in Dublin, Ireland in 1998.
[1] From the early 2000s, Semlex Group won contracts to make biometric documents for governments around the world, including the United Nations, European Union, and international police agencies.
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