The court also ordered the confiscation of a huge inheritance of French real estate, estimated at 90 million euros, belonging to the Syrian president’s uncle. It is
The court also ordered the confiscation of a huge inheritance of French real estate, estimated at 90 million euros, belonging to the Syrian president’s uncle.
His fate was finally decided. Rifaat al-Assad, the uncle of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, was sentenced Wednesday in Paris to four years in prison for fraudulently building a huge real estate portfolio in France estimated at 90 million euros, of which the court ordered the confiscation.
In the “ill-gotten gains” case, Rifaat al-Assad, 82, absent from trial for “medical reasons” but represented by his lawyers, is specifically guilty of organized money laundering in the embezzlement of public funds in Syria between 1996 and 2016. .
Rifaat al-Assad, a British resident at the head of a real estate empire in Europe, who today presents himself as an opponent of his nephew Bashar al-Assad, was also convicted of tax fraud, which is as serious as working to cover it up. from employees of the home. However, he was acquitted of the facts covering the period 1984-1996, due to legal issues.
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facts of “exceptional gravity”
Among the goods confiscated by the courts in France are two villas in beautiful Parisian districts, about forty apartments, a castle, a stable in Val-d’oise… Property was also confiscated in London. Condemning the decision “which does not rely on any objective element”, his lawyers indicated that they would “immediately appeal”.
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In the eyes of the court, which pointed to facts of “exceptional weight” regardless of Rifaat al-Assad’s age, “the matching elements gave credibility to the existence of embezzlement of public funds at the expense of the Syrian state and for the exclusive benefit of Rifaat al-Assad”. In a statement sent to reporters, his lawyers said that “there is not a dime of funding from Syria in the folder” and that “all identified flows have a legitimate origin.”
A former pillar of the regime in Damascus, Rifaat al-Assad was the leader of the elite internal security forces, the defense brigades, and he bloodily put down the Islamist rebellion in 1982. He is nicknamed “the butcher of Hama”.
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Forced into exile in 1984 after the failed coup against his brother Hafez al-Assad, he settled in Switzerland and then in France with his family and 200 believers. He had no family wealth in Syria, he built a real estate empire which today is estimated at 800 million euros, mainly in Spain, but also in France and Great Britain, which belatedly aroused suspicion.
Date of update: June 20, 2020, 10:58 am
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Source: newstars.edu.vn