I wonder if someone in Germany will take the time to pay a regular visit to this guy when he goes to prison.
France charges Assad’s uncle with graft
Andréa Bambino | AFP | Published — Tuesday 28 June 2016
Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks with his loyalist forces during his visit to the front line in the Damascus suburb of Marj al-Sultan on June 26, 2016. Assad’s uncle Rifaat Assad has been charged with receiving embezzled funds and tax fraud in France. (SANA via AP)
PARIS: Syrian President Bashar Assad’s uncle, suspected of using ill-gotten gains to build a real estate empire in France, has been charged with corruption, a judicial source said Tuesday.
Rifaat Assad, 78, who commanded Syria’s notorious internal security forces in the 1970s and early 1980s, was charged on June 9 with receiving embezzled funds and tax fraud, the source told AFP.
In the probe, headed by prominent political graft buster Renaud van Ruymbeke, investigators estimated that Rifaat and his family amassed 90 million euros ($100 million) worth of real estate in France, mainly through companies registered in Luxembourg, between 1984 and 1988.
The properties include a chateau and stud farm north of Paris, two mansions, two apartment blocks and a plot of land in the French capital as well as offices in southern Lyon.
Rifaat, who has four wives, told investigators he “had nothing” when he left Syria, having always given his wages away to the poor, according to a source close to the investigation.
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France charges Assad’s uncle with graft
France charges Assad’s uncle with graft
Andréa Bambino | AFP | Published — Tuesday 28 June 2016
Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks with his loyalist forces during his visit to the front line in the Damascus suburb of Marj al-Sultan on June 26, 2016. Assad’s uncle Rifaat Assad has been charged with receiving embezzled funds and tax fraud in France. (SANA via AP)
PARIS: Syrian President Bashar Assad’s uncle, suspected of using ill-gotten gains to build a real estate empire in France, has been charged with corruption, a judicial source said Tuesday.
Rifaat Assad, 78, who commanded Syria’s notorious internal security forces in the 1970s and early 1980s, was charged on June 9 with receiving embezzled funds and tax fraud, the source told AFP.
In the probe, headed by prominent political graft buster Renaud van Ruymbeke, investigators estimated that Rifaat and his family amassed 90 million euros ($100 million) worth of real estate in France, mainly through companies registered in Luxembourg, between 1984 and 1988.
The properties include a chateau and stud farm north of Paris, two mansions, two apartment blocks and a plot of land in the French capital as well as offices in southern Lyon.
Rifaat, who has four wives, told investigators he “had nothing” when he left Syria, having always given his wages away to the poor, according to a source close to the investigation.
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France charges Assad’s uncle with graft
