Beirut, Lebanon – Three Syrian businessmen with close ties to the Syrian government have been linked to the company that bought the explosive material that entered Beirut’s port in 2013 and fuelled a massive explosion in August that devastated parts of the Lebanese capital.
The Syrian businessmen, George Haswani and brothers Imad and Mudalal Khuri, are also Russian citizens, according to UK government website Companies House and media reports.
Open-source information on the UK website – first aired by Lebanese documentary filmmaker Firas Hatoum on local news channel Al Jadeed on Tuesday – shows that companies formerly directed by Haswani and Imad Khuri have the same stated addresses as Savaro Limited, the company that purchased 2,750 tonnes of highly explosive ammonium nitrate in July 2013, four months before it entered Beirut’s port.
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US businesses oppose call for keeping tariffs on China By Zhao Huanxin | China Daily | Updated: 2021-01-13 07:40 Share CLOSE A US cargo ship docks at the Qingdao Port, Shandong province. [Photo by Yu Shaoyue/For China Daily]
The cost of US tariffs on China has far exceeded any benefits derived from them, so the incoming administration in Washington should roll them back, a major American business group said on Monday as the United States trade chief advised President-elect Joe Biden to retain the punitive measures on China.
US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, architect of the tariff policy that he claims has benefited American workers, said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, We transformed the way people think about trade, and we transformed the way the models are. . My hope is that that will continue.