US report offers few clues on Assad family wealth
The State Department report said the estimated net worth of President Bashar al-Assad and his family was between $1-2 billion.
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The State Department report said the estimated net worth of President Bashar al-Assad and his family was between $1-2 billion.
"It is not like the Syrian government are looking the other way while drug cartels do their thing. They are the drug cartel.”
Built on the ashes of 10 years of war in Syria, an illegal drug industry run by powerful associates and relatives of President Bashar Assad has grown into a multibillion-dollar operation, eclipsing Syria’s legal exports and turning the country into the world’s newest narcostate.
On Syria’s ruins, a drug empire flourishes
Associates of Bashar al-Assad are making and selling the amphetamine captagon, creating a new narco-state