Engineer Ibrahim Spinzada is a politician in Afghanistan who had been appointed to several government positions by President Hamid Karzai.
In 2004 the Los Angeles Times described Spinzada as Karzai's brother-in-law.
[1] The Congressional Research Service also called him "a Karzai brother-in-law", when it reported he was the first deputy adviser on Afghanistan's National Security Council in 2010.
[3] In March 2012 he traveled to Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba to negotiate with the five remaining Taliban leaders held there.
[4] Al Jazeera described him as an associate of Mohammed Ali Salehi, an individual they reported facilitated the illegal transfer of funds from Afghanistan.