Lebanese-Syrian Drug Trafficker Gets 30 Years in US Terrorism Case
Court records say Kassis used Syrian military access to trade weapons for hundreds of kilograms of cocaine and launder nearly $100 million.
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Damascus To Bogota: The Syrian Insider Headed To U.S. Prison For A Weapons-For-Cocaine Pipeline - Tampa Free Press
A federal judge sentenced 59-year-old Antoine Kassis to 30 years in prison today, locking away a major middleman who bridged the gap between Middle Eastern weapons stockpiles and South American drug cartels. Kassis, a dual Lebanese-Syrian national, received a 30-year sentence for narco-terrorism conspiracy and a concurrent 20-year sentence for conspiring to provide material support […] Damascus To Bogota: The Syrian Insider Headed To U.S. Prison…
The US Department of Justice announced that Antoine Kassis (59), a cousin of former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for using his connections with the regime to supply weapons to an organization in Colombia and receiving cocaine in return.
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