The Leaked ‘Panama Papers’ Expose The Dirty Dealings Behind Syria’s War
The Assad cronies who got rich and crushed dissent had no problem moving their money offshore.
04/06/2016 05:27 pm ET
Charlotte Alfred World Reporter, The Huffington Post
Rami Zayat/Reuters The leak of millions of documents from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca show how Syrian companies and regime insiders were able to hide their assets in offshore companies. Above, an airstrike in Aleppo in 2015.
Among the international figures named in the “Panama Papers,” the trove of more than 11 million leaked financial and legal documents made public over the weekend, is the richest man in Syria, Rami Makhlouf.
Makhlouf, 46, is a cousin and close friend of Syrian President Bashar Assad. He’s also one of the most hated men in the country. His flagrant corruption helped spark Syria’s 2011 uprising, when protesters attacked his businesses and chanted “Rami Makhlouf is robbing us.”
He sure was. Makhlouf exploited his close connections to the Assad regime to amass a fortune of some $5 billion and control some 60 percent of the Syrian economy. In 2011, Reuters reported that Makhlouf had total or partial monopolies in Syria’s telecommunications, real estate, oil, airline, duty free, construction and import sectors. Any foreigner who wanted to do business in Syria had to go through Makhlouf, analysts say.
KARIM SAHIB/AFP/Getty Images
Syrians hold banners condemning Syrian president Bashar Assad and his allies, including billionaire cousin Rami Makhlouf, who owned offshore companies set up and run by Mossack Fonseca.
READ MORE: http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/panama-papers-syria-assad-rami-makhlouf_us_57052790e4b0a506064dbd8b?section=australia
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