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Syria is secretly reshaping its economy. The president’s brother is in charge.
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Syria is secretly reshaping its economy. The president’s brother is in charge.
A shadow committee is remaking Syria's economy with secret takeovers of Assad-era companies. A Reuters investigation has found the new president's brother, Hazem al-Sharaa, along with a sanctioned Australian are in charge of untangling corruption. But to do so, they're making deals with businessmen many Syrians associate with years of ill-gotten gains.
Weeks after Syrian rebels seized control of Damascus, a prominent businessman received a late-night phone call asking him to meet “the Sheikh.” The address was familiar: a building that had witnessed repeated extortion attempts against businessmen like him under Bashar al-Assad. But what was new this time were the faces. With a long, dark beard and a pistol at his waist, the Sheikh identified himself only by the pseudonym Abu Mariam. Now the hea…
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