Syrian oil tycoon survives assassination: George Haswani's son
Enab Baladi Syrian businessman and oil tycoon Bassel George Haswani has today survived an attempted assassination in Rif Dimashq, two days after his father’s name appeared in an investigation on those complicit in the 2020 Beirut Explosion. On Haswani’s Facebook page, director Imad Jandali AlRifai wrote that Haswani was a target of an assassination attempt and that he was shot on the Rima road in Yabrud area. Haswani survived and the damage was exclusively material, AlRifai added. Bassel Haswani is the owner of the Damascus-based Masa Oil Company. He claims reputation not only for being t...