The company that bought the ammonium nitrate which exploded in Beirut last August had possible links to two Syrian businessmen under US sanctions for ties to President Bashar Assad.
By Ellen Francis, Tom Bergin and Maria Tsvetkova BEIRUT/LONDON/MOSCOW (Reuters) - The company that bought the ammonium nitrate which exploded in Beirut last August had possible links to two Syrian businessmen under U.S. sanctions for ties to President Bashar al-Assad, according to a report by a Lebanese journalist and London company filings. Savaro Ltd, the trading firm which procured the chemicals in 2013, shared a London address with companies linked to George Haswani and Imad Khoury, according to the report by documentary film-maker Firas Hatoum, which aired on Lebanon s al-Jadeed TV station this week. Haswani, Khoury and his brother Mudalal Khoury have all been sanctioned by Washington for supporting Assad s war effort. All three are joint Syrian-Russian nationals, according to the U.S. sanctions list and a database that gathers data from official Russian institutions. The U.S. Treasury accused Mudalal Khoury in 2015 of an attempted procurement of ammonium nitrate in late 2013 . It
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Trading firm behind purchase of chemicals that devastated Lebanese capital shares London address with companies linked to Syrian-Russian nationals sanctioned by U.S. for supporting Assad's war effort