The uncle of Syrian President Bashar Al Assad has been sentenced to four years in jail by a Paris court after he was found guilty of acquiring..
has been sentenced to four years in jail by a Paris court after he was found guilty of acquiring millions of euros worth of French property using money diverted from the Syrian state.
The court ruled that Rifaat Al Assad’s properties in France be seized and a property in London believed to be worth €29 million also be confiscated.Syrian ex-secret police on trial for war crimes Al Assad, who is accused of being behind the 1982 Hama massacre in which as many as 40,000 people were killed, has a property empire worth an estimated $100m including two Paris townhouses and a chateau.
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