Candidate · N37 Karanaan (2025)
Current
Overall due diligence
Moderate
Enhanced due diligence required
Former state assemblyman with multi-party trajectory and recent candidacies triggers PEP scrutiny, while corporate, financial and litigation checks remain uncovered by the records.
Electoral resilience
Low
Won one of four recorded contests (1999 Kundasang by 99 votes); three subsequent bids including 2025 ended in defeat.
Political continuity
Elevated
Has contested under four different labels: PBS, Independent (BEBAS), PKR/PR and KDM, indicating repeated platform changes.
Integrity signal
Open
Records contain no allegations, charges or convictions, but only electoral results are provided so integrity matters remain uncovered.
Financial / corporate
Open
No company-registry, asset, credit or director-search records provided; financial and corporate exposure cannot be assessed from this file.
How much due-diligence attention each area needs — not a finding of wrongdoing.
Former Sabah state assemblyman (1999 onwards) with repeated candidacies at state and federal level.
Records establish Karim bin Adam as a Sabah-based politician who won one state seat (N25 Kundasang, PBS, 1999) and lost three subsequent contests under different banners (Independent 2004, PKR 2008, KDM 2025), spanning state and federal ballots. The provided file is limited to electoral outcomes, so corporate, financial, litigation and regulatory dimensions remain open and require standard registry checks before any integrity judgement. Enhanced due diligence is warranted given his former-assemblyman status and multi-party trajectory, but no allegations or adverse findings appear on the record supplied.
Public-record review · allegations ≠ findings · a charge is not a conviction · every point links to its source record (E official results, R reviewed records, N collected reports). Prepared by AI from the records on this page; not an analyst finding, and it can be wrong.
No biography collected yet.
Arrests, charges, convictions, sentences, acquittals and pardons as reported by credible sources. Each item is marked with its stage — a charge is not a conviction — and outcomes are listed where reported.
No legal history found in the sources collected so far.
Allegations and investigations as reported by credible outlets. An allegation is not a finding; read each with its stage and source.
No scandals or controversies found in the sources collected so far.
Active in multiple parties and coalitions (PBS, PR, KDM), indicating broad but shifting political linkages.
No procurement, government-contract or Auditor-General records provided.
No SSM, company-director or GLC appointment records provided.
No court-registry or case records provided to check civil or criminal exposure.
No MACC, immigration or regulatory findings in the records; cannot be confirmed clean.
No asset declarations, income records or financial-disclosure documents provided.
Only single-source electoral data is on file; broader media scrutiny not covered.
Nothing collected yet.
Contested 4 elections, won 1.
| Election | Seat | Ticket | Votes | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sabah state election 2025 | N37 Karanaan | KDM | 895 6.9% | 4th of 7 · lost deposit |
| Sabah state election 2008 | N29 Kundasang | PKR · PR | 1,180 18.0% | 3rd of 3 |
| GE11 (2004) | P179 Ranau | BEBAS | 3,310 17.8% | 3rd of 4 |
| Sabah state election 1999 | N25 Kundasang | PBS | 4,201 47.4% | Won by 99 |
Official gazetted results via the Malaysian Election Corpus (grade A record).
Collected automatically from credible outlets and Wikipedia, then cross-checked: Verified items match the official record, Confirmed items were reported by two or more different outlets, and single-source items are one outlet’s report. Partisan and anonymous claims are never shown.
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