Smuggled goods bound for Assad’s family intercepted

Du rififi en haut-lieu ? Un colonel de la IVe Division de l’armée syrienne bloque, semble-t-il sur ordre de Maher al-Assad, une cargaison de contrebande destinée... à (des membres des familles) Assad et Makhlouf.

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The person in charge of the trucks objected, pointing out that the checkpoint was manned by the army not the customs authorities, and that the goods belonged to Assad and Makhlouf. However, the commanding officer, a colonel, insisted on checking the documents. When he found there were irregularities, he ordered the goods to be seized.

Smuggled goods bound for Assad’s family intercepted
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A picture uploaded on the official Facebook page of the Syrian Presidency shows Syrian President #Bashar_al-Assad (L) looking at papers with an employee from the Presential Palace in #Damascus on February 25, 2014. (Photo: AFP/ Ho / Syrian Presidency Facebook page) A picture uploaded on the official Facebook page of the Syrian Presidency shows Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (L) looking at papers with an employee from the Presential Palace in Damascus on February 25, 2014. (Photo: AFP/ Ho / Syrian Presidency Facebook page)

Soldiers at a checkpoint under the command of a colonel from the Syrian army’s Fourth Division stopping a truck containing goods belonging to Ihab Makhlouf and Ayham al-Assad seems unlikely in a (...)

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