Some Al-Assad sell their properties

Rifaat al-Assad with President Bashar al-Assad (the island)

The Daily Telegraph revealed that British members of the family of Syrian PresidentBashar al-Assad began selling what it called the real estate they own empire, which includes apartments and houses in London, millions of dollars, and they are transforming their properties in various other parts of the world's money.

The Daily Telegraph that the properties for sale, including a house worth ten millionpounds sterling, or more than 15 million and a half million dollars in the area of ​​Mayfair in the British capital.


She added that the house owned by Rifaat Assad, who said he known the title "Butcher of Hama," because of his leading role in the carnage witnessed by the Syrian city and killed nearly forty thousand citizens of nearly thirty years ago.


The newspaper pointed out that Rifaat al-Assad was the uncle of current Syrian president, who leads the campaign was described by the Daily Telegraph bloody andruthless against the pro-democracy Syrian citizens in the country.
Total deathsShe added that the Human Rights Office of the United Nations announced yesterday that the total killed on Syrian territory over 2900 people over the past seven months, ie since the start of a wave of unrest in Syria.

While the newspaper pointed out that the sale of the property raised the lion comes in light of the fear of confiscation in the event fall of the regime, she noted that he had previously been confiscated property in London, returned to those, described presidents dictators deposed Muammar Gaddafi and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, in immediately after the fall of their regimes.

The newspaper quoted a magazine Charlie Hebdo French say that Rifaat Assad sold a portfolio of large real estate in the United States, London and Spain and France, adding that members of the Al-Assad wanted to "liquidate their property abroad as soon as possible," and that the liquidation of real estate handled by two of the wives raised thefour-Assad, in addition to his sons.

Asma al-AssadAccording to the magazine - which had obtained documents bank official confirmed deals - that the property huge owned by the Assad family in the town of Puerto Banus on the Costa del Sol in Spain for sale for 600 million pounds sterling or approximately $ 931 million, adding that it was to reduce this amount in millions dollars, in an attempt by Al-Assad to get rid of their property as quickly as possible.

The Daily Telegraph that Rifaat al-Assad (73 years) - Former Syrian vice president - was moved to the Palace near Park Lane in London since 2009.
The newspaper said that although the ICC has not issued an indictment against him on the massacre of Hama, which was perpetrated in 1982, there are many testimonies of independent confirm his involvement or role in which she said, adding that Rifaat al-Assad - who has lived most of his time in France these days - denies the allegations made against him, and it could not get the hang of it in particular.



The newspaper pointed out that the names of the lion - the wife of President Bashar al-Assad - carrying a British passport and was born in the British capital and she grew up in London, adding that her parents do not live Azlan, and that Assad still owns property there.

Source: Daily Telegraph