- "I made it my personal duty to be here at the end of this adventure, Mr Tintin. Unfortunately, it ends very badly for you!"
- —Anton Karabine[src]
Anton Karabine is a Greek businessman and the main antagonist of Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece in The Adventures of Tintin series. He is the founder and CEO of the Karexport company.
Prior to the events of the film, Karabine accompanied Themistocles Paparanic to Teteragua alongside Midas Papos, Scoubidouvitch, and Alexandre Timochenko. He briefly held a position in the new Teteraguan government before fleeing the country eleven days later with his comrades.
He and Paparanic never liked each other and immediately after Paparanic's death, Karabine began searching for his sizeable share of the Tetaraguan gold. He decided to purchase Paparanic's boat, the Golden Fleece, as it contained all the late captain's belongings and he hoped to find clues to the gold's whereabouts.
He first encountered Tintin in Istanbul as the head of the company Karexport, claiming to be an old friend of Paparanic and offering Haddock 400,000 Turkish pounds or 20 million French francs to buy the boat for "sentimental" reasons. The huge amount made Tintin suspicious and on his advice Haddock turned the offer down.
Not put off, Karabine arranged several attempts to kill Tintin and Haddock in Istanbul. When this failed, he sent his employees Angorapolous and Yefima undercover as sailors on board the Golden Fleece to search for clues to the location of the gold.
Later, he was alerted by Yefima that Tintin and Haddock had located the gold at the island of Thassika, and headed there with his henchmen via helicopter. They boarded the Golden Fleece and took the chest of Paparanic's gold. They locked all of the crew (barring Tintin) in Paparanic's cabin, leaving them behind to be blown up by a crate of dynamite.
Karabine and his men took the chest back to their helicopter only to come under attack by the police. Karabine got aboard the helicopter only to discover that Tintin had replaced the pilot after it took off. A struggle between the two ensued, causing the helicopter to spiral out of control, but Tintin managed to overpower him and prevent the craft from crashing.
Beaten, Karabine announced that no-one would get the gold and opened a hatch to let the chest fall into the ocean. He was later arrested, possibly never to know that the chest didn't contain the real gold he was after.